Excuse the diversion away from our usual content. I’ll be back with more wibbling later.
Ever since O level economics, where we studied the common agricultural policy (CAP) and the general agreement on trade and tariffs (GATT) I’ve been of the opinion that trade subsidies are a bad thing. I’m not an out and out free market fan, but with this editorial and this new blog I think the nice people of the Grauniad may have a point. Lets abolish argicultural subsidies and I’ll have my money in cash thanks.
Of course, the chances of triumphing over entrenched special interests are slim, but that shouldn’t stop us trying.
The CAP is quite insane. If Farming has a future in the UK, it’s not as a mass food producer.
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/000422.html