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Re: Good things about the new government
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:39 am
by Bird on a Fire
plodder wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:20 am
You lot are no fun.
Here's another interesting one that very much cuts both ways:
https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/payments ... or-farmers
me? I think the UK's land management needs a radical overhaul and subsidising the status quo is a blocker. So very interested to see how this plays out.
Yes, this is very cool.
Environmental NGOs were working behind the scenes with Gove to draft the new legislation, which has the potential to be quite useful - it's based on paying farmers for providing (ecosystem) services, rather than just for owning land.
Will be interesting to see how much it gets watered down by politicians.
Re: Good things about the new government
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:53 am
by El Pollo Diablo
For those of us who can't be bothered to search on google, could either of you please summarise why it's good?
Re: Good things about the new government
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:20 pm
by plodder
farm payments are currently sh.t and will be changed for the better due in part to brexit.
Re: Good things about the new government
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:13 pm
by El Pollo Diablo
yerbut what makes em sh.t
Re: Good things about the new government
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:01 pm
by Bird on a Fire
Sorry, I was out.
To answer in a sentence: currently, some farm payments are made based on shite criteria like area, rather than whether that area is actually doing anything desirable, but the new idea is to pay based on doing socially useful things like providing recreational access, biodiversity/habitat protection, etcetera.
AIUI they're already trying to water down the regulatory body side of things, though, so maybe the rich landowners will be able to keep getting taxpayers'money for nothing, f.cked if I know.