And 33 years later, they're still moving the goalposts. I had this email this morning. Not that it bothers me, as I wouldn't ever get involved in these ridiculous schemes.Tut, tut!! Not meaning to be insensitive, BUT, quotas were introduced simply because there were vast quantities of dairy produce in storage. Milk lakes, butter mountains etc.
Price supports to farmers to keep them afloat.
Quotas were inevitable and were set at 1981 levels. Just 3 years prior to introduction.
Wait till you see what Brexit will do to UK farmers incomes once farming is used as a sacrifice to get trade deals for the city boys.
You need to read more informative rags! Keep your local rag for stuffing your wellies when the soles break through. Brexit farming won't allow luxuries like wellies!
Hmmm....well hopefully we won't need 30k overpaid civil servants dreaming up blanket regulations to try and cover maize barrons in Poland, olive growers in greece, and sheep farmers in Wales.
Alternative view: 30,000 staff to administer the EU is admirably efficient.Hmmm....well hopefully we won't need 30k overpaid civil servants dreaming up blanket regulations to try and cover maize barrons in Poland, olive growers in greece, and sheep farmers in Wales.
And the rules changed again in 2005. Some ended up with surplus entitlements. Entitlements became tradable. Some ended up with nowt, and had to buy them back. That REALLY peed me off.
I didn't realize that the eu employed so many people to do the work for us but who pays for them or do they work for free
Yes. Brilliant and heartbreaking. He sat in a police cell calling his cows at the end.
