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Did you hear about the vociferously anti-EU editor of the Daily Mail getting outed as having recieved over £500,000 in EU subsidies on his nice Scottish estate over the last 5 years?
Apparently it's for the benefit of the community that lives around his loss-making luxury hotel there (that he probably just uses as a holiday home). This is why huge swathes of Scotland are bought and sold as investments to funds-because the real subsidy junkies are the international landowners who block development and treat the EU entitlements as dividend payments. A pretty surreal situation that would justify expropriation and re-nationalisation as an immediate cure to be honest.
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And the burning of grouse moors has a direct correlation with the increase in down stream flooding, costing the government and insurance industry (and subsequently us, insurance customers) millions more than is saved.
Venal is exactly right.