Ahh the Common Agricultural Policy, good point, we will never get them to reform that.
http://www.just-food.com/news/sugar-quotas-to-end-in-2017-after-cap-deal_id123629.aspx
but they did it anyway.
I shall therefore withdraw my use of the term Little Englander and accept that I am a cad and a bounder, before you resort to pistols at dawn. Long live the Oxford debating society.
Oh look the "regular sized" USA are doing something similar
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/17/us-tariffs-chinese-solar-panels
Kill off the competition via a protected home market and subsidised sales overseas, once you have no competition, you can charge what you want, so short term...
Why does Little Englanders make you so tetchy ? If UKIP transformed into ENGIP tomorrow, they would lose a handful of voters. Farage and his team have a special appeal to a certain type of Englishman, who want to be governed by their own rules.
Solar panel prices have halved since 2010. The point of the subsidy was and is, to encourage investment in more efficient production methods worldwide. If this trend in cost cutting continues, solar power is on target to be subsidy free worldwide by 2020, for the UK with our rather feeble...
You just need to add in longer life expectancy and despite all the scares around the cost of care, very many of the elderly are able to stay in their own homes.
We are not going to agree on this one, but the idea that this lot could clean up politics, doesn't stand up to any scrutiny for me.
http://infernalmachine.co.uk/tag/neil-hamilton/
All political parties have their bad eggs, but I can't see UKIP making this any better.