The Daily Mail has an article today about EU farm subsidies to billionaires and foreigners in the UK:
But the newspaper ‘forgets’ to mention that its own editor Paul Dacre has also trousered massive handouts from the EU in so-called farm subsidies for his private Langwell estate in Scotland:
Dacre offers grouse shooting and deer stalking at Langwell to those rich enough to afford it.
Which of course has nothing at all to do with the Daily Mail’s attacks on outspoken anti-grouse hunting activists such as Chris Packham.
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Just an FYI – the CAP subsidies list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17JXyhterJZ2UI5Z7YYmON6nKrtTLIS3rPCPT4x-CkCk/edit#gid=1315968968
REF: http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2016/09/29/common-agricultural-policy-millions-eu-subsidies-go-richest-landowners/
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Yep.This story even got into our main stream media DownUnder. Man!
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“Dear God! That England should produce such men
That publish others’ sins to hide their own!”
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Funny that.
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Michelle – Thanks for the link to the Greenpeace report of the top 100 beneficiaries of payments. Paul Dacre’s Langwell Estate isn’t in the top 100, so any newspaper or blog naming it in that context could rightly be accused of bias.
However, it illustrates the astonishing amount of EU money being given to people who don’t need it, when Dacre’s estate received 300,000 Euro in a year…… and it ISN’T in the top 100! Also, why is the RSPB at number 4, receiving about two million pounds? Do RSPB members know that it’s actually a farm?
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The reason that Dacre’s acres didn’t feature in the top 100 is that Scotland (like Wales and N Ireland applied the optional EU cap. England (Westminster) didn’t.
Greenpeace omitted that little gem.
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be fair at least the coverd it its much like the gaurdion talking about tax evasion while doing it themselves.
but they could of avioded the subject altogether.
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