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Brexit 'opportunity' to correct farm funding 'failings' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-49168341 They had to get "A no-deal Brexit is by far the biggest threat to farming and to our food and drink sector." In at the end though, just in case anyone had forgotten
No-deal Brexit: 10 ways it could affect you https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47470864 Another useful article, though the headline should be 3 ways, the other 7 are ‘could’ or ‘may’ Oh hang on, the headline is ‘could’ Sorry for wasting your time.
The BBC have been showing that article every 6 months or so since the beginning. At the very start of all of this, the media have done little else than say, we're all doomed, it will only effect us, our skin will fall off and we will have difficulty obtaining avocado's. Even as time rolls by and many of the predictions are shown to have been scaremongering, they continue to write at the bottom of a positive story "in spite of brexit" It's to be expected as I'm sure most understand the remain media, politicians and extreme remainers will throw everything and the kitchen sink from now till October the 31st
hmm maybe thats why they where too busy to report about the 160,000,000 pounds taken by the UK Gov and payed to english farmers that was earmark for Scottish Farmers by the EU as hardship payments. But i trust them to do the right thing now tho.
Funny part is allowing migrant workers, but not so excited at them being “permanent”. I dare bet the bigger problem is small farms and crofters being part of a larger estate. At which point you just know where the money will continue to go As usual bugger all to do with before or after Brexit really.
to me, the most efficent farms still getting the payments, sugests, its the bigger farms still getting their payments.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t the EU method of distribution of subsidies based on the amount of land they own ?
i guess that played a part, along with locality/transportation costs, quality of the land that needs worked/maintained. with the ecconomy of scale, obviously the bigger farms appear more efficient
There seems to be so much lazy journalism, where Brexit is used as a reason or excuse. The bigger questions should be where income will be generated from after Brexit? 80 percent of trade is service sector. UK Government income is mostly from taxation. So if the plan from Boris and co is to cut taxes and the service sector shrinks also as expected after Brexit, where is the money coming from? Not the small change from small enterprises, but the big money. Im sure the answer is not from crofters in Scotland, fishing or similar. These sectors whilst giving some employment do not supply the bulk of UK wealth and are just a political football. Meanwhile the denial about the value of Sterling being unrelated to Brexit and the form it takes is bemusing. Okay, it does fluctuate, but it is no coincidence that when hard Brexit was off a few month back it was circa 1.17 euro to pound, Boris no deal and its 1.09. A hefty hit from an already devalued (after the referendum) currency. Similar story against the dollar. If business and investors thought that Brexit would be good for the UK economy would they not be investing big...and the pound would be getting stronger? Obviously something doesnt add up.
Seems they’re ok if they can afford to buy lots of land to increase their ‘subsidy’. I don’t quite get subsidies
banking and services are only 25% of the ecconomy here. off the top of my head, i think the food and dring industry is wqorh around 6?bill anually to us .
