David Cameron hates milk farmers in Britain
David Cameron will not help British milk farmers deal with massive price cuts.
These price cuts for milk are pushing many farmers into bankruptcy.
Cameron is wasting 9 billion pounds on an Olympics that nobody wanted.
Some of this Olympic money could have been used to help save British farmers from bankruptcy.
Last edited by SDP; 22-07-2012 at 08:28 AM.
It was Blair not Cameron who lumbered us with the Olympics.
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Cameron could have cancelled the Olympics in 2010 after the election.
But he chose to carry on with it and wasted 9 billion pounds on an Olympics that nobody wanted.
I don't know if Cameron hates dairy farmers or not. What I do know is that the EU set out to screw dairy farmers in the UK in the mid to late 1980s by bringing in milk quotas that farmers were not allowed to exceed. IE if a farmer produced 150,000 litres of milk a year, that was all he was could produce. If he produced 170,000 litres of milk then he either paid a penalty or threw the milk down the drain. On day one of quotas Britain had a quota 15% LESS than her annual domestic demand. That meant immediately British dairy farmers started going out of business and Britain could not export dairy produce. That was a result for the Dutch and French dairy industries. Of Course in the level playing field and open and free market of the EU that could only be a co-incidence, and not as a result of lobbying by the French and Dutch dairy industries in the EU. Well, that's what we've been told!
Part two of the Brussels scums' plans was to abolish the Milk Marketing Board (setup post WW2 to set a price for milk) and allow the big dairy companies to buy milk directly off dairy farmers. The rationale the EU used was that it was a monopoly, and therefore against single market rules. Only the most bitter and twisted cynic could imagine the big dairy companies lobbying in Brussels to abolish the Milk Marketing Board. When the big dairy companies had all the farmers (who are now limited as to how much milk they can produce by EU quotas) under contract they forced the price of milk down below the level of sustainability for dairy farmers. In effect the old Milk Marketing Board benign monopoly had been replaced by a cartel of the big dairy companies. The cartel couldn't give a monkey's if ALL British dairy farmers go out of business, they can buy their milk off the EU market. Now I always thought arranging a cartel was against British law, but then, we all know which law Tory filth prefer over British law don't we? And that, pretty much, is as the situation stands today.
So to attempt to rectify this situation Cameron would have to go against EU policy and EU law. Yeah, that's gonna happen!
Somebody remind me; just why did Traitors Gate fall into disuse?
You may think making international commitments to other countries is nothing to be concerned about; that they can be disregarded whenever it becomes inconvenient, but anyone with a sense of integrity and honour and a sense of pride in the reputation of the UK would be appalled at your suggestion.
Originally Posted by SDP
Yes SDP, the Olympics are a huge waste of money, that most of the Public aren't interested in, and is an inconvenience for Londoners who aren't allowed to use the special driving lanes that have been created for the exclusive use of VIPs and athletes. The amount of money that has been spent on the opening ceremony alone is obscene.
One of the biggest problems with our government is that they always put international commitments ahead of their national commitment. How many promises have the ConDems broken since they formed a coalition government?
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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION WANTS TO BAN ALL SEEDS AND PLANTS THAT AREN'T AUTHORISED BY THEM, AND CRIMINALISE THEIR USE!
I am afraid he couldn't .. it was too far advanced to stop. That there are problems now doesn't surprise me at all .. the thing was built by Labour & such shoddy builders they are.
You are wasting your time thinking politicians will help here. It is a free market, if you disagree with a supermarket's policy then contact them and tell them and vote with your feet by going somewhere else.
Agreed. This constant expectation for the government to get involved with every problem shows just how much our country has lost it's spirit of self reliance.
I left these beautiful words for GC in another thread and now I will leave them for you.
…Let the farmer, so far as I am concerned, be damned forevermore. To Hell with him, and bad luck to him. He is a tedious fraud and ignoramus, a cheap rogue and hypocrite, the eternal Jack of the human pack. He deserves all that he ever suffers under our economic system, and more. Any city man, not insane, who sheds tears for him is shedding tears of the crocodile.
No more grasping, selfish and dishonest mammal, indeed, is known to students of the Anthropoidea. When the going is good for him he robs the rest of us up to the extreme limit of our endurance; when the going is bad be comes bawling for help out of the public till. Has anyone ever heard of a farmer making any sacrifice of his own interests, however slight, to the common good? Has anyone ever heard of a farmer practicing or advocating any political idea that was not absolutely self-seeking — that was not, in fact, deliberately designed to loot the rest of us to his gain? Greenbackism, free silver, the government guarantee of prices, bonuses, all the complex fiscal imbecilities of the cow State John Baptists — these are the contributions of the virtuous husbandmen to American political theory. There has never been a time, in good seasons or bad, when his hands were not itching for more; there has never been a time when he was not ready to support any charlatan, however grotesque, who promised to get it for him. Only one issue ever fetches him, and that is the issue of his own profit. He must be promised something definite and valuable, to be paid to him alone, or he is off after some other mountebank. He simply cannot imagine himself as a citizen of a commonwealth, in duty bound to give as well as take…
Yet we are asked to venerate this prehensile moron as the Ur-burgher, the citizen par excellence, the foundation-stone of the state! And why? Because he produces something that all of us must have — that we must get somehow on penalty of death. And how do we get it from him? By submitting helplessly to his unconscionable blackmailing by paying him, not under any rule of reason, but in proportion to his roguery and incompetence, and hence to the direness of our need. I doubt that the human race, as a whole, would submit to that sort of high-jacking, year in and year out, from any other necessary class of men. But the farmers carry it on incessantly, without challenge or reprisal, and the only thing that keeps them from reducing us, at intervals, to actual famine is their own imbecile knavery. They are all willing and eager to pillage us by starving us, but they can’t do it because they can’t resist attempts to swindle each other. Recall, for example, the case of the cotton-growers in the South. Back in the 1920’s they agreed among themselves to cut down the cotton acreage in order to inflate the price — and instantly every party to the agreement began planting more cotton in order to profit by the abstinence of his neighbors. That abstinence being wholly imaginary, the price of cotton fell instead of going up — and then the entire pack of scoundrels began demanding assistance from the national treasury — in brief, began demanding that the rest of us indemnify them for the failure of their plot to blackmail us. (H.L. Mencken, “The Farmer.” American Mercury: March, 1924. Pgs. 293-96).
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