UKIP Eastern Counties
The EU gravy train for farmers is ‘hitting the buffers’ says MEP
Monday, 27th June 2011
Stuart Agnew MEP
Responding to the statement from EU Budget Commissioner Januz Lewandowski (24.6.11) in which he said that he believes: ‘the share of agriculture in the EU budget should keep its decreasing trend’, Stuart Agnew MEP, UKIP’s spokesman on Agriculture said:
“It is a great pity that the Commissioner isn’t saying the same thing about EU regulations affecting the agricultural sector! Unfortunately for farmers, the tide of regulation is increasing while the money coming into the sector is steadily falling. Farmers are sooner or later going to realise that the gravy train is hitting the buffers and they will rapidly come to understand that the EU is not their friend, a message I have been preaching for many years.
“The EU is in the process of wrecking agriculture in Europe through a disastrous combination of incompetence, over-regulation and an unhealthy obsession with the green agenda. An independent UK Government would certainly be in a much better position to regulate and support farming in this country.”
Mr Agnew is the UKIP MEP for the East of England and he is a member of the European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee.
