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Captain Starlet May 24, 2017 07:00:15
Replying to thesweetcheat

As part of my day job I talk to a lot of farmers who are terrified about leaving the EU as the removal of EU subsidies will mean a lot of them will go out of business

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary May 24, 2017 07:37:32
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Captain Starlet wrote:
As part of my day job I talk to a lot of farmers who are terrified about leaving the EU as the removal of EU subsidies will mean a lot of them will go out of business
I don't just talk to farmers here in Cornwall, I live amongst them - 100's of them, as I am in the heart of farming country.

This is what my own North Cornwall Tory candidate has to say on the matter. Of course being a tory he will be a natural liar with all the candidates from the other parties being whiter than white! LOL

https://www.scottmann.org.uk/news/scott-brexit-means-we-need-british-agricultural-policy-farming

PS
And this where you will note that the vote for leaving the EU in North Cornwall was 60-40 in favour of leaving in what is predominantly farming country.

https://www.scottmann.org.uk/campaigns/brexit-north-cornwall

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary May 27, 2017 15:18:59
Replying to Captain Starlet

Captain Starlet wrote:
As part of my day job I talk to a lot of farmers who are terrified about leaving the EU as the removal of EU subsidies will mean a lot of them will go out of business
Not wishing to backtrack to a previous post but I have just come across this CS. It was headlining in the Western Morning News dated May 19 2017 and brought home by my missus. Can't say I can see anything to be terrified about here.

The headline says...
Farmers win subsidy pledge from Tories.

'The Conservative Party has promised to continue the existing level of farm subsidies until 2022 - two years beyond previous pledges.'

The party manifesto, launched on the same day as the Devon County Show, said:
'We want to provide stability to farmers as we leave the EU and set up new frameworks for supporting food production and good stewardship of the countryside'.

Edit:
Meurig Raymond, President of the National Farmers Union, speaking at the show, said: 'I am delighted with the manifesto commitment to maintain the total level of support for farmers through the next parliament.'