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Cool, thanks. Have just read Gove's farming conference speech. He's on a bit of a mission there, it's worth a scan imo - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/farming-for-the-next-generation
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This is his leadership bid, no? It's fuck all to do with the future of farming in the UK.
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It is a measure of Gove's unworldliness that he does not realise that the Tory party is based upon perpetuating the privilege and assets of the land-owning aristocracy. Cameron & Osbourne understood this implicitly; the former married into it, so is an arriviste compared to the latter.
This inner sanctum of the Tory party does slowly replenish itself; Heseltine famously owns many acres of Nothamptonshire.
The EU proposed all this some time ago. The (Cam&Os) UK vehemently opposed the change from an acreage based payment.
One thing is for certain Gove will not be Environment Secretary when this is due to be introduced.
Dammit
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Farmers will continue to be paid during the transition that the EU is offering, from the point at which we have transitioned then that cash will come directly from the taxpayer without going via the EU. We will likely still be paying both our pre-existing commitments and also something for market access, although that (and indeed any transition) depends on May totally capitulating to the EU, tearing up all her redlines.