The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on May 18, 2013, 07:14:27 am
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<blockquote>All governments pay money into the EU and all want something back out. One of the ways money comes back out is farming subsidies.
A pot of money is allocated to each country for them to distribute into their agricultural sector. The bureaucrats get to decide how it is distributed.
I should add that the rest of this relates to England and Wales. Scottish bureaucrats behave differently.
The bureaucrats of course want to keep as much of the money as possible for the bureaucrats, releasing as little as possible to the farmers themselves.
Bureaucrats are paid to think up ridiculously draconian schemes whereby farmers who can play agricultural Twister may end up with a bit of money. Other bureaucrats are paid to think up ways of varying the schemes on a continual basis. Further bureaucrats are paid to work out how to transition farmers and bureaucrats from one scheme to another. Bureaucrats are paid to work out policing / auditing systems for the schemes and others to implement the audits. Bureaucrats are paid to work out how much money to distribute to each farmer and other bureaucrats to make those payments.
Even after all this work, there is still a little bit of money left over and this has to be allocated to farmers or be returned to Europe, and this is the Single Farm Payment.</blockquote>
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Too true.
But think of how much it would cost to pay jobseekers' allowance to all these bureaucrats if they weren't doing the job they are doing now... ::)
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but when they work out they can pay themselves a bonus....... well !!!!