Originally from: mark purdey
                        
DEFRA confirm their intention to rob redundant dairy farmers of their valuable milk quota asset on 1/ 4/ 04.

Dear all,

The issues surrounding 'second home' ownership has been debated in the news recently, where complaints have been levied at the government for failing to take any action to stop the middle class suburbanites from owning houses in the countryside which they do not actually use for themselves.

Whilst I could never endorse the right of any government to confiscate these peoples'  hard earned 2rd homes, it has to be said that the failiure of the Ministers to get involved here  provides further evidence of our so called socialist government's 'peasantrial prejudice'  that ironically favours the rights of Middle England town's folk above the rights of the working rural folk.

In this respect, can anyone explain the difference between a government who is confiscating a redundant dairy farmer's hard earned milk quota because he/she does not actually have a need to use it any more and a government who is confiscating a suburbanite's hard earned second home because they do not need to use it for themselves ? Both parties participate in the same common 'crime' of renting out their hard earned assets for abit of extra income, so a fair government should be treating each party in an identical manner, surely?  But not so !

I would hope that other farmers, like myself, who have been pressured by the government mandated quota system to buy in milk quota over the years will rally to challenge the legality of DEFRA's declared intention to steal our hard earned milk quota assets on April 1st 2004. The bandits have no legal right to pilfer our assets and shall be dealt with, like other thieves, in the criminal courts forthwith.

Best,

Mark 

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