HM Betty doesn't get any CAP money, Crown Estate gets it and gives back to Treasury, anyway sure they won't be getting any CAP money anyway after 2018 unless the previous budget agreements still run in which case it will be 2020.Cockatrice wrote:rocky.. maybe HM The Queen could give up her £450,000 yearly CAP payment and donate it.. could at least pull a couple of those North Antrim farmers out of a hole..rocky wrote:The thing is, Mike, that no-one really knows, although I do suspect that Snipe's gut feeling is probably correct (and there is no doubt that he's right about the economics of NI).
Sadly, I also think your final sentence is likely to be the over-arching case made by both sides.
Mind you, I think there is at least a case to be made for suggesting that a united Ireland (probably some kind of federal solution) could do well after an initial period that would be very difficult.
If Scotland goes and we are left with England and West England, our prospects will be truly frightening.
If they are already saying that they probably can't cover the money from the EU to the North-East of England, what chance is there that they will come close to matching the single farm payment, for example, let alone all the other money coming in from the EU.
If I were a North Antrim farmer, I would already be thinking that my no vote was a bit of a blunder.
Of course, I hope that I'm wrong..............
If that goes then the 350k a week savings won't kick in until 2021 so NHS need not be getting excited.