{"id":19718,"date":"2016-07-16T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19718"},"modified":"2016-07-16T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:00:23","slug":"countryside-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19718","title":{"rendered":"Countryside Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m running out of post titles for all this. I can\u2019t just keep writing \u201cyou couldn\u2019t make it up\u201d, but\u2026 no, you really couldn\u2019t. According to this BBC article, farmers are facing \u201canxiety\u201d<\/a> over Brexit and the distinct possibility of their EU subsidies being axed.\"Harvest<\/p>\n

Well, excuse me, but farmers \u2013 certainly those that I have observed, and I have observed many \u2013 were approximately 100% in favour of Brexit (and that estimate might be a little on the low side). Those huge \u201cLEAVE\u201d hoardings in their fields was a tiny bit of a giveaway.<\/p>\n

So, I can\u2019t help thinking of a line from Lou Reed\u2019s song, Perfect Day:<\/p>\n

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You’re going to reap just what you sow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And now, it\u2019s harvest time!<\/p>\n

Another thing I notice a lot when I\u2019m driving around is the number of vans or construction sites with labels or signs declaring that EU funding paid for it.\"Say<\/p>\n

In the case of the vans \u2013 white, of course \u2013 I wonder how the owners think they\u2019ll manage without continued EU funding? Better still, how they\u2019ll survive if they have to give it back? I mean, I\u2019m sure that funding is paid out prospectively rather than retrospectively, so it wouldn\u2019t come as too much of a surprise to discover that some companies might have to refund all or part of it. Likewise, some start ups who were expecting funding might not now get it.<\/p>\n

But, hey! Just throw another immigrant on the barbie and wheel the Union Jack up the garden flagpole, eh? After all, everything\u2019s going to be \u201call right\u201d, isn\u2019t it? The Sun and Daily Mail say so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m running out of post titles for all this. I can\u2019t just keep writing \u201cyou couldn\u2019t make it up\u201d, but\u2026 no, you really couldn\u2019t. According to this BBC article, farmers are facing \u201canxiety\u201d over Brexit and the distinct possibility of their EU subsidies being axed. Well, excuse me, but farmers \u2013 certainly those that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}