Cheap milk versus farmers' rights? 27 March 2006 at 5:51PM in Money Saving Polls 34 replies 8.6K views

Mary_Hartnell

You have to be really desperate to drive a cab/private hire car, especially out in the country.

Any cabbie want to a good winge and compare his lot with a contract milker?

Mary_Hartnell

It is not quite the same as looking for multi million houses on Zoopla but you could search this document and see if you can recognise the cash being given to your local hard pressed farmer.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2005/03/23/CAP.pdf

Mary_Hartnell

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

It is not quite the same as looking for multi million houses on Zoopla but you could search this document and see if you can recognise the cash being given to your local hard pressed farmer.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2005/03/23/CAP.pdf

The following web site tells you how much a farm business is getting in subsidies.
Now let the government tell us what the farmer/land-owner is doing for the money.
http://cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/

[Like in the USA I expect you will find "farmers" who seem to live in the City of London etc.]

Mary.

PS These prices are NOT 2.50 a pint - and a big chunk of them is VAT & Excise Duty.
Perhaps we should ask who is making the profit on British beer prices?

ALDI - Coming in Thursday 2nd Oct:

DAB Pilsener, the REAL thing straight outta Dortmund, 12*330ml, £7.99
Also Köstritzer Schwarzbier, a German sort of Stout, very nice, £1.39 for 500ml bottle.

Mary_Hartnell

Bump........................
Seeing as we are all talking about saving "government" expenditure/subsidies
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=34118559#post34118559