Preparedness for when

NewShadow

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

greenbee wrote: »

The question is, will you keep MTSM or not? :cool:

would MTSM want to stay with people who are passionate of where they live??;)

We'll just stop her at the border until the wall's finished - Can't cross back into England Bach; You've not got the right colour passport...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Unless it's changed, I thought some subsidies are based on the amount of land you had?? As when I lived with my parents they wanted to buy a strip of land off the neighbouring farm to make a new entrance to our property ( entrance was on a nasty bend) and they could only sell us a smaller amount as it would effect their subsidy payments??

GreyQueen

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

So do you think Cameron will resign if the vote don't go his way???

Hope so..

Will he jump or will he be putsched?

He should worry, he's got an ex-prime ministerial pension-for-life, among other things.

Good job the civil serpants are actually running the show, I'd hate to think these media muppets are in charge of amything more important than choosing which tie to wear each day.

NewShadow

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Unless it's changed, I thought some subsidies are based on the amount of land you had?? As when I lived with my parents they wanted to buy a strip of land off the neighbouring farm to make a new entrance to our property ( entrance was on a nasty bend) and they could only sell us a smaller amount as it would effect their subsidy payments??

That would be the CAP reforms/single farm payments, which were put in place (partly) to stop blatant gaming the system.

The European agricultural guarantee fund has broader reach relating to regulation of the actual agricultural markets - export refunds, quotas, intervention in produce levels.

You can play any system.

NewShadow

GreyQueen wrote: »

Will he jump or will he be putsched?

from his view - if he jumps, at least he'll leave the tory's in power. If he waits for a no-confidence we'll have to have another general election.

Good job the civil serpants are actually running the show, I'd hate to think these media muppets are in charge of amything more important than choosing which tie to wear each day.

Has no personal political opinion - officially - honest :A

(Is not looking forward to the possibility of working under a coalition in Wales next year)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Dare I say it, Boris for prime minister????

GreyQueen

Ooooo, are you a civil servant, NewShadow?

I'm just a lowly local gubbermint call-handler. But I still get my ears chewed ragged over stuff which originates in Westminster.:rotfl:

Tres amusingly, some callers want to go to the MP to protest against something which local government has to administer (bedroom tax is a classic) when that very same MP has been quoted in the meeja as being very much in favour of whatever-it-is.

We just give 'em the MP's contact details and let 'em get on with it.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Wish I knew how to play the system with my couple of acres lol..

I honestly don't think the Tories will do anything in our elections.. I think labour will still be dominant in the welsh assrmbly

GreyQueen

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Wish I knew how to play the system with my couple of acres lol..

I honestly don't think the Tories will do anything in our elections.. I think labour will still be dominant in the welsh assrmbly

I was gutted to learn that set-aside had been stopped. I had a scruffy bit at the top of the allotment for a few years which I wanted to claim for, drat it.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

We presently have an insane situation where the export of some agricultural commodities is matched, almost to the tonne, with the import of the same agricultural commodities. Crazy.

Exactly. Take milk, for example.

Under the CAP, we are required to import 15% of the milk we consume, but so are the other EU countries, meaning we export 15%, and import 15%.

How crazy (not to mention environmentally unfriendly) is that?