UK farming failed

[james armstrong]

THE
FAILURE OF UK FARMING

-in
spite of massive CAP subsidies each year. 

 

For each of the farm products , Meat, Dairy, Cereals and vegetables
, in each year from 1997 to 2007,  UK
imports exceeded exports.   Over the period
and in each year the balance of the deficit in food increased .

By 2007 import /export deficit of these products totaled £10.9bn.
    

(see
Tables 19.3, 19.4,  Annual Abstract of
Statistics.)

 

Farming  - One more failure
of HMG .

This gives an
example of the sustained powerless of HMG to achieve outcomes in policy fields.

Here, in food security, government is dependent on  the agricultural trade body, the NFU who
achieve subsidies for their 50,000 members who fail to produce food adequately within
the UK.- the outcome that CAP is meant to ensure.

The BBC flagship radio and t.v. farming programmes neither
reveal nor highlight this failure of farming.

NFU unduly influence  the output of BBC daily programme ‘Farming
Today’ .

 

In  housing, corporate
builders are rewarded by higher prices, while housing output has failed , 

In finance, as corporates (banks) are rewarded , sterling and public finance is  jeopardized

National Debt ,  PFI’s reward
corporates, the public is indebted and the debt entrenched . 

CAP –landowners rewarded, taxpayers secretlypay and the country is  indebted.

The pattern  is that
governments are in the hands of  profit  focused -not outcome targeted- corporations.

 

3 percent of UK
people who have heard of CAP and think they know what it is* , when CAP in UK
is 30 years old and costs taxpayers 
£3.9bn each year, and growing,  is clear proof of
 government unwillingness to reveal govt’s  subordinate role to corporations.

(* Major CAP Survey conducted by EU in UK )
All this suggests that government see their present role as
deceiving the people and keeping them in ignorance of corporate rule.I suggest the 3 per cent knowledge of CAP and the secrecy  of the £3.9bn annual CAP cost can be used as a campaigning tool.James   


 		 	   		  
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