- Food mountains, wine lakes etc were not fake news.
- VAT (you could not think of a worse tax) was not fake news.
- The sudden disappearance of cheap food from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Argentina and Eastern Europe in 1973 was not fake news.
- The grubbing up of hedgerows in the late 1970s to make the most of CAP was not fake news.
- Farmers being paid to leave fields full of weeds under the 2nd version of CAP was not fake news.
- The grants to country landowners under the 3rd and current incarnation of CAP are not fake news
- The Single Market tariff barrier is not fake news.
I wrote to my MP on two entirely separate issues recently. The first was to do with the replacement for the Inter City 125 train, which at £2.6 million per vehicle, is twice as expensive as it ought to be. The second concerned the benefits of a switch from business rate and Council Tax to a tax based on site values. In both cases, the replies were full of spurious, unsubstantiated assertions and completely flawed arguments. This is typical. You will not get an iota of sense from the government on any area of public policy at all - finance, economics, trade and employment, agriculture, housing, health, transport, energy. All junk. If you write to your MP you will invariably receive answers that are an insult to your intelligence, no matter what subject you are writing about. Of course they cannot understand statistics. They are innumerate. Whitehall is staffed with idiots with a high IQ. Look at their IT projects. And mind your purse, they will have that too.
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