Thirteen Government ministers and senior Conservatives have today committed that every region, group and recipient of EU funding will continue to get that money after a ‘Leave’ vote in the EU referendum. In an open letter, the signatories—who include Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Priti Patel - assure those people and organisations who currently receive money from the European Union that their funding is safe if we Vote Leave.
In the letter they say:
’There is more than enough money to ensure that those who now get funding from the EU—including universities, scientists, family farmers, regional funds, cultural organisations and others—will continue to do so while also ensuring that we save money that can be spent on our priorities.
’If the public votes to leave on 23 June, we will continue to fund EU programmes in the UK until 2020, or up to the date when the EU is due to conclude individual programmes if that is earlier than 2020.
‘We will also be able to spend the money much more effectively. For example, some of the bureaucracy around payments to farmers is very damaging and can be scrapped once we take back control.’
The cynic in me finds turkeys voting for christmas endlessly entertaining, but this sort of blatant lying is why western societies’ trust in government is evaporating.
There’s no point to have farming subsidies for pig farmers. In a society where people on average eat too much meat, pork should cost at the supermarket the economic price it costs to produce pork and not less because of government subsidies. Brexit allowed to get rid of bad policy like that.
“Farm subsidies are bad” is literally the type of elitist white collar values attitude that vote leave campaigned against. They tricked tons of working class people to vote for them under the assumption that the tory party would then take care of them. And of course because labour and the lib dems haven’t represented the working class since the Blair era.
Oh but they said ‘we can’ not ‘we will’. This isn’t a court of law. What was implied is very clear.
Rhetoric about Project Fear was meant to explicitly make all warnings about brexit downsides seem ridiculous and overblown. And tons of people actually believed that they would kinda sorta trundle along and be ok. Well, most of us are gonna be ok, but some turkeys definitely got plucked hard.
I looked a bit into the actual policy. It’s not a question about whether or not there are farming subsidies but for what subsidies are paid. As the forward for the 2021 document says:
This is an exciting time for English farming. We will be phasing out Direct Payments and introducing a new system that rewards farmers and land managers while delivering additional public goods that improve the environment.
Changes of this significance can be intimidating, and it is natural that many farmers are worried about the phasing out of Direct Payments. We will move to the new system gradually, and make changes where needed if the new policies do not work as intended. It is vital that farmers have time to adapt.
We have committed to maintaining the current annual budget in every year of this Parliament. This means funds from Direct Payments will be redirected straight back into Countryside Stewardship and our new schemes. The same amount will be available to the sector, though the way it is distributed will change
The way the money was distributed with the EU rules was having stupid affects on making unheathly food cheaper compared to healthy food. Insteadly, thinking about how farming can happen in a way that produces public goods and organizing subsidy payments to further public goods is much smarter then existing policy.
This likely means that some farmers who don’t want to change their practices will lose money relatively to what they had before while other farmers gain money.
http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/leave_ministers_commit_to_maintain_eu_funding.html
The cynic in me finds turkeys voting for christmas endlessly entertaining, but this sort of blatant lying is why western societies’ trust in government is evaporating.
“Farm subsidies are bad” is literally the type of elitist white collar values attitude that vote leave campaigned against. They tricked tons of working class people to vote for them under the assumption that the tory party would then take care of them. And of course because labour and the lib dems haven’t represented the working class since the Blair era.
Oh but they said ‘we can’ not ‘we will’. This isn’t a court of law. What was implied is very clear.
Rhetoric about Project Fear was meant to explicitly make all warnings about brexit downsides seem ridiculous and overblown. And tons of people actually believed that they would kinda sorta trundle along and be ok. Well, most of us are gonna be ok, but some turkeys definitely got plucked hard.
I looked a bit into the actual policy. It’s not a question about whether or not there are farming subsidies but for what subsidies are paid. As the forward for the 2021 document says:
The way the money was distributed with the EU rules was having stupid affects on making unheathly food cheaper compared to healthy food. Insteadly, thinking about how farming can happen in a way that produces public goods and organizing subsidy payments to further public goods is much smarter then existing policy.
This likely means that some farmers who don’t want to change their practices will lose money relatively to what they had before while other farmers gain money.