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I'm quite curious as to which policies led to a loss for the estate's finances as well!
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Oct 8 2013, 04:30 PM
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Also, is it true that he was actually sacked?
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Oct 9 2013, 08:49 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Oct 8 2013, 01:06 PM)  What were they? The main one is the abolition of the Single Farm Payment and its replacement with the Basic Payment Scheme - the Englefield Trust has famously received 'millions' through the SFP. Around £200k a year. The proposed new scheme caps payments to the biggest claimants - reducing what they get by up to 100%. £200k is one of the dividing points in the scheme - if they got more than £200k they will get 40% less, if not it will be a 20% cut. If their payment was as much as £250k it would mean an 70% cut and those who got over £300k in the past will get nothing under the new scheme. |
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Oct 9 2013, 09:10 AM
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He has been replaced by someone who failed in a previous attempt to be elected as a UKIP candidate. So, a man of principle then.
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Oct 9 2013, 02:20 PM
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Who? And is changing political party abandoning your principles, or making a principled decision?
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Oct 9 2013, 02:25 PM
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Churchill did it twice, that makes him twice as bad.
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Oct 9 2013, 05:02 PM
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QUOTE (Lolly @ Oct 9 2013, 03:20 PM) Who? And is changing political party abandoning your principles, or making a principled decision? It rather depends. Changing party because your politics is sufficiently at adds with that of the party you once joined isn't especially principled, it's just obvious. It would simply be perverse to be a member of a political party whose politics you didn't agree with. Leaving a party over a single issue when you otherwise agree with the party's politics might reasonably be described as a principled decision, especially if you leave behind the personal and social benefits of party membership. However, moving from one party to another because your political ambition is likely better served in the other party is pretty shallow and unprincipled. -------------------- Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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