If you’re concerned about Cameron’s focus on the environment, you must listen to Zac Goldsmith’s interview on Tory Radio.
When offered a very generous opportunity to expand on the work he was doing, he used it to subtley take a swipe at the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.
When asked about opportunities that everyone should take to help the environment listed on an environmental leaflet, he responded in the way you would hope any conscientious and pragmatic non-green-obsessed person would.
If you’re worried, this interview should reassure even if it is just a little.
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April 28th, 2006 at 11:39 am
Hi, I know this is off-topic, sorry but how is your local election campaign shaping up?
April 28th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Locally I think we are doing well — the other parties are not canvassing or actively campaigning and the reaction has been good on the doorstep.
About my own campaign, though, there is no campaign — I have won the seat because it was not contested by any other parties!
April 30th, 2006 at 5:09 am
I just listened, he didn’t specifically mention EU did he, or at least I didn’t catch that bit.
My dad is a farmer, as are many relatives, they used to complain a lot about CAP some years ago, but now after BSE, foot-n-mouth etc and the general down turn in the business they feel they find it hard to imagine coping without it.
So I guess these European socialists got what that wanted..
Seriously how could Britain scrap the CAP subsidy system unless other EU countries did the same, because otherwise the market would be flooded by subsidies EU food and British farmer gets screwed, I know in the long term a free market open system should make British farmers better off as it did in New Zealand, but it would take a lot of time for things to adjust correctly.
Libertarians would say, they don’t care if the French are subsidising the cost of food production because ‘we’ benefit from that. But we have to respect our own people and industry, and the French wont be able to give high subsidies forever with the way their economy is going, so it would be taking a very short term view imo to let our own farmers go to ruin.
, we don’t want that situation with food.
Look what happened with the energy supply, now we are gonna be held to ransom by the Russians, no ?
I’m not a protectionist, I just wanna see the Brits getting a fair chance.
April 30th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
He didn’t mention the EU and CAP by name but the implication was clear enough.
Protectionism is definitely short-term thinking, but yes, you’re right that we need to stop the French from distorting the market. That should be what the EU is about.
In the long-term, the destruction of protectionism is a good thing. The closure of mines in England and Wales did Thatcher no end of harm but she was right and will be remembered forever for her brave and fair resolve.
April 30th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Well, I wasn’t trying to claim that Thatcher was wrong about the mines, its one thing to remove a bad policy but we must replace it with something better, at the moment we don’t seem to have a very secure energy policy, is that not a concern?