Is UKIP really the anti-CAP subsidy party it purports to be?

摘要

With the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) breathing down the necks of Britain's ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, it is timely to more closely examine their policies on European agriculture. In the County Council elections held across most of England earlier this month, UKIP won 147 seats and took 25% of the vote on an average 30% turnout, under a first-past-the-post system. Particularly notable was their success in farming counties such as Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, where many of the lower-paid agricultural workers have in recent years increasingly come from the new member states in Eastern Europe, such as Bulgaria and Romania.