YP Letters: Why farmers will be better off with Brexit

Farming Minister George Eustice addressed the Northern Dairy Conference in Skipton.

GEORGE Eustice, the Farming Minister and campaigner for Vote Leave, has been talking about how British farmers could be better off if the UK left the European Union.

He said: “The UK government will continue to give farmers and the environment as much support – or perhaps even more – as they get now … after all, non-EU countries like Switzerland and Norway actually give more support to their farmers than we do.” Agriculture in Norway and Switzerland is amongst the most protected in the world. According to the OECD, 60 per cent of Norwegian farmers’ income is generated by state subsidies and other policies. For Swiss farmers, it is 55 per cent.

Meanwhile, the average farmer in an EU member state can expect state subsidies to make up around 19 per cent of their annual income. Maybe if we subsidised our farmers the Norwegian or Swiss way, they wouldn’t have to employ cheap foreign labour, or would they?

From: D Wood, Howden.

DAVID Cameron’s only employment outside of politics was as a PR man. These are people employed by large companies to convince the public that something is better than it really is, or in some cases that it is something entirely different to what it really is.

In other words, they are conmen. Of course the term conman, while being true, is politically incorrect, hence the term public relations was coined and is used instead.

Mr Cameron is now using all the tricks of this deceitful trade to try and scare the people of Britain into staying in the EU. If, however, Mr Cameron is so convinced that he is right, there is one way to prove it – go head to head in a live TV debate with Nigel Farage.

From: Arthur Quarmby, Underhill, Holme.

A PUBLICITY poster arrived from an outfit called “Britain in Europe”. It painted a picture of Nirvana - claiming that everything about the EU is good. To leave would be suicide.

No mention of the failure of the euro, of the bankruptcy of countries of south Europe such as Greece and soon, Spain, no mention of the corruption and bureaucracy and concealment of accounts, nor of the utter failure to address the unresolved problem of mass migration.

No mention of the ratcheting of agreements which continually advances the locking together of the present countries into the United States of Europe and from which there will be no escape.