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The Queen and one of the richest men in London, the Duke of Westminster, are among the biggest winners from this year's payment of farm subsidies.
The Duke, who owns most of Mayfair and also Grosvenor Farms Limited, was paid £562,786, while the Duke of Marlborough, a member of the Churchill family, was paid £452,944 in subsidy for the Blenheim Farm Partnership based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
One of the largest payments went to the Mormon Church, which has become one of the biggest foreign landowners in English farming following a payment of £1.59m from the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The Queen's Sandringham Farms were paid £408,970 in subsidies. Half of the land is let to tenants and the rest is turned over to two studs for her racehorses, forestry and fruit farms which produce apples and juice for the Windsor farm shop.
The Duke, who owns most of Mayfair and also Grosvenor Farms Limited, was paid £562,786, while the Duke of Marlborough, a member of the Churchill family, was paid £452,944 in subsidy for the Blenheim Farm Partnership based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
One of the largest payments went to the Mormon Church, which has become one of the biggest foreign landowners in English farming following a payment of £1.59m from the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The Queen's Sandringham Farms were paid £408,970 in subsidies. Half of the land is let to tenants and the rest is turned over to two studs for her racehorses, forestry and fruit farms which produce apples and juice for the Windsor farm shop.
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You read that right.
40% of the EU's budget (£76 billion) is spent farm subsidies. Those farm subsidies are used to artificially decrease the price of EU-produced farming products, in order to prevent African farmers from selling their products here. And they go to some of the richest people in Europe, the Queen and the Duke of Westminster being two examples.
We claim to help the small and local organic farmers by giving Shit loads of money to stinking rich land-owners and corporations, thereby ensuring we cut our markets to poor African farmers.
And if we have surpluses, which we do every year, we generously send our products to the aforementionned Africans. Who then can't even sell their own products at home either.
In the race for unmeasurable stupidity, we're clearly neck and neck.