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British farmers receive less for their milk now than they did 30 years ago.
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Dear Sir
Whilst the European Union decides whether cheese can be called 'Wensleydale' if it has not been made in Wensleydale, all local dairy farmers are still suffering thanks to the Common Agricultural Policy. With Britain's efficient dairy farming tradition, we should not only be self-sufficient in dairy products but also able to export up to 20% of our produce. Thanks to EU quotas, milk is either poured down the drain - or worse, dumped on developing countries as 'aid'. Dumping of milk has devastated Jamaican farming, putting farmers out of business and lowering future productivity. Of course, as a result of our quotas the UK must now import milk from other European countries. Meanwhile, British farmers receive less for their milk now than they did 30 years ago.
Ignoring these problems whilst discussing whether Wensleydale merits Protected Designation of Origin status is like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. I'll gladly throw my full support behind the Real Yorkshire campaign just as soon as the main issue of the destructively wasteful Common Agricultural Policy has been dealt with.
Considering that EU subsidies to dairy farming would be enough to fly every cow in Europe around the world each year, I'd expect a little more efficiency. Perhaps the EU would do better to keep shamefully quiet on the subject of fairness for farmers rather than seek cheap publicity. Federalist MEPs posing as friends of the pitifully few remaining dairy farmers in Yorkshire is simply nauseating.
Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom
UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Published in The Yorkshire Post Saturday 19th August 2006 |
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