It’s not just the corrupt CAP. It’s the piss poor implementation of policies that wasted our ENTIRE net contribution to the last budget we paid into.
65 fucking billion.
https://wilderness-society.org/eu-agricultural-policy-cap-fails-to-protect-biodiversity/
It’s corrupt and subject to political capture. It’s beyond reform
https://www.politico.eu/article/copa-cogeca-farmering-lobby-europe/
We are out now and have replaced it.
Yes, another bullshit doppleganger model commissioned by a politician. Maybe investigate this crap before posting it as fact. Meanwhile the UK is still performing exactly the same as its real dopplegangers, France and Germany.
The benefit of leaving the EU is being out of the environmental disasters that are the common agriculture and fishing policies, not whether Doris from Devon can still sell 4 pieces of cheese a week.
0.29% of UK companies stopped exporting. Big deal.
It’s a negative forecast based on a loss of comparative advantage in polluting, carbon heavy, low margin goods trade. They factor no increase of competitive advantage in low carbon, low polluting, high margin services exports.
Services exports are up 75% since 2016.
They are not great forecasters.
King of the cunts
Returning to common law for regulations more than offsets an annual 0.26% loss of productivity.
And the UK’s productivity problems occured while in the EU anyway.
The UK specialises in services exports, which are unaffected by a customs union.
Perhaps the EU should become less protectionist, it might help their stagnant economic performance.
Big if
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It’s just ironic how it was going to be the UK that was going to start the race to the bottom, yet it’s the EU that’s weakened their farming rules
The CAP is crap, and subject to political capture by the very people who receive the revenue.
We’d be lowering our farming standards of we rejoined. The EU is winning the race to the bottom on that one, pretty fucking ironic.
I just listen to podcasts at a volume low enough that I have to try to listen, tires my brain out
Time to ditch Westminster and the Union, devolve power.
You should. It takes the largest share of the EU budget. We could be helping Ukraine, not wealthy landowners.
I like the idea, but reality is reality.
At least with an oil company you can trust they will be cunts.
The EU is supposed to be better. It isn’t.
https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2025/10/complaint-european-ombudsman-eu-commission-deceives-citizens-flawed-figures