Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-13-Speech-2-291"
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"Madam President, here we go again. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development keeps rejecting this proposal and the Commission keeps on batting it back. If nothing else this ping pong tournament clearly shows the pointlessness of this Parliament and its committees.
This Parliament is supposed to represent democracy in the EU, so why is it that the Commission shows it such contempt? Possibly because it knows that in reality this Parliament is a sham of democracy, a glorified talking shop with little or no meaningful influence over anything.
The UK Independence Party finds itself in the unusual position of being against giving the British Government more freedom, in this case to siphon off CAP funds away from food production and into nebulous rural development schemes which could mean anything from maintaining village greens to building theme parks or running animal reserves. We are, after all, supposed to be talking about the common agricultural policy and not the common rural development policy.
The British farming community needs support. It is not the healthy option for my country to move away from producing its own food. A country should not be reliant on imports to feed itself, and this is where Britain is heading if we take money away from genuine farming and instead pour it into feel-good environmental projects.
The UK Independence Party is no supporter of the EU and its subsidy regime. But while Britain remains a member, we might as well ensure that the funding we receive – which is merely our own money that the EU sees fit to return to us anyway – is spent in the right place.
Feeding the British people must take priority over what might, in some cases, be termed ‘cosmetic environmental projects’."@en1
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