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Originally Posted by Flyboy
I can't understand farmers who are against the idea of the UK being in the EU. Wouldn't they stand to loose a great deal if the UK withdrew?
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Quite the reverse. CAP reduces the benefits of being a large, efficient operation (as many British farms are) because it subsidises small, inefficient ones (as many French farms are). The only people who would be royally screwed without CAP are the French. British farmers would do ok without CAP (which of course would be a necessary consequence of not being in the EU).