Ploughing jaunt won’t fool the farmers
It is no coincidence that the Fine Gael and Labour leaders left Green leader Trevor Sargent at home when they headed to Cork. The Greens’ anti-agriculture policies are rejected by farmers throughout the country.
Enda and Pat owe it to the farmers they met to explain what Irish agriculture will be asked to sacrifice in order to bring their desperate coalition with the Greens into power.
The Greens want to destroy CAP, are opposed to live exports and are against rural one-off housing. Certain members of Labour are supporting the Greens in calling for the re-examination of subsidies given to producers in the developed world, a thinly disguised code for the scrapping of CAP.
Mr Rabbitte’s newfound interest in the farming community flies in the face of his party’s European election manifesto last year, which called for an end to the direct subsidy of agricultural products. In reality, that, too, is the scrapping of CAP.
The Mogeely charade won’t fool farmers, who know the party which represents their best interests is Fianna Fáil.
Billy Kelleher TD
Deputy Government Chief Whip
Ballyhooley Rd
Dillons Cross
Cork
