[Diggers350] UK farming failed

[james armstrong]

Hello Fran,
a) the £71cost pof one household  is the contribution  from Income Tax of those earning £41k- more for higher earners.  to EU memebrhsip - from the Inland Revenue only .

b) but CAP is not funded from Income Tax but from the Treasury - road tax, fuel duty, import tariffs, death duties and borrowing etc.
 Revealing income tax spending only  is useful but, as usual,  misleading.

D Tel in 2009 quoted £390 per household as the cost CAP  ( I think they added in the cost of of EU membership) 

By co-incidence I wrote to Oliver Letwin recently asking him to ask Osborne to reveal  the cost of EU membership  and of CAP in the forthcoming Budget speech.
Of course it was a coincidence that  he quoted income tax figures, but it showed  my thinking is right.

The scandal is that only 3% of people know they are being  ripped off. So I am plugging that undemocratic stat.  
Cheers, James  
   

> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:04:10 +0000
> From: fran at peopleincharge.co.uk
> To: james36armstrong at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Diggers350] UK farming failed
> 
> James
> 
> Did you hear the stuff on radio today about Osborne's plans for each of 
> us to get a statement to show where our tax is going?
> 
> And one of the things mentioned was that the contribution to EU of 
> someone on £25K was about £70 pa. Which is so little compared to 
> contribution to welfare health and education. And one person who was 
> interviewed said she'd expected it to be more.
> 
> Does this £70 include CAP payments? If it does include CAP I think it 
> makes your battle more difficult.
> 
> But I'm tearing my hair out at the mo with the right to buy back on the 
> scene. Have discovered a good wheeze round it tho a fully mutual housing 
> coop (and that's what we're going to do with the 6 properties we plan to 
> build in Oxford in the next three years). And make it explicit to people 
> that avoiding the right to but is part of the deal.
> 
> Anyway good for you that you keep going.
> 
> Fran Ryan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 19/03/2012 21:23, james armstrong wrote:
> > THE FAILURE OF UKFARMING
> >
> > -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, UKimports 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 onthe 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 patternis that governments are in the hands ofprofitfocused -not
> > outcome targeted- corporations.
> >
> > 3 percent of UKpeople who have heard of CAP and think they know what it
> > is* , when CAP in UKis 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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