UKIP: Farmers to be 'punished' for diseases

Blog Bot · 18-11-2007, 03:50 PM

From the official website:

Farmers across Britain face a new levy to help pay for the soaring costs of dealing with animal diseases including bird flu, bluetongue and foot and mouth.

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Anthony Butcher · 18-11-2007, 04:47 PM

I am at a loss as to why this is the main story on the UKIP site. No comments from UKIP, no mention of the EU, no relevant policies that it reinforces...?

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Farmers across Britain face a new levy to help pay for the soaring costs of dealing with animal diseases including bird flu, bluetongue and foot and mouth.
The price of curbing the spread of infections in cattle, sheep and turkeys is likely to cost the taxpayer at least £120m this year. Farmers will be expected to meet some of the cost, through a levy raising around £40m a year which will be based on the size of each farm and its operation.

Though farmers have made substantial losses this year as a result of not being able to sell livestock, the government is determined to push ahead with its plan.

Kevin Pierce, of the National Farmers' Union, said: "This is certainly not a good time to be talking about levies, particularly when so many in the beef and sheep industry are suffering."
Read the full story from The Observer

g hall · 18-11-2007, 09:18 PM

Certainly should be some comment about the EU fines DEFRA have had imposed on them

BASILDON BOY · 18-11-2007, 10:04 PM

Are they just running stories like this to increase their 'hit rate' when someone googles some key words - goes to view an article on farming and stumbles across the UKIP site instead?

Independent UKIP · 18-11-2007, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BASILDON BOY

Are they just running stories like this to increase their 'hit rate' when someone googles some key words - goes to view an article on farming and stumbles across the UKIP site instead?

"farmers punished diseases" has UKIP in 16th place at google. But who other than me or you is going to use those 3 keywords? I suppose that is actually knowable but I don't know how to find that out.

I would think the article was considered to be of interest to ukip supporters who are not very well known for their readership of the Observer. I certainly don't read that paper.

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18-11-2007, 10:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
BASILDON BOY Uber Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: N'Djamena, Chad Posts: 2,065	Are they just running stories like this to increase their 'hit rate' when someone googles some key words - goes to view an article on farming and stumbles across the UKIP site instead?