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[email protected] · August 30th 11, 11:42 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:19:05 +0100
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 30/08/2011 12:08, d wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:55:38 +0100
The Real wrote:
On 30/08/11 11:48, d wrote:
Because supermarkets won't pay them the real value of what they produce.
The farmers should call their bluff - then watch Tesco et al panic as they
try and source basic commodities for the entire country from abroad.

What have you got against the free market, comrade?

Withholding goods until you can get a better price IS free market econonics
you muppet.

Discovering it is not a bluff and Tescos can source from elsewhere
without a trace of panic is also free market economics.

True, but its unlikely to happen. If brussels dropped its subsidies for all
european farmers the supermarkets would have no choice to pay the proper
price and the consumer would be no worse off - in theory - since what he loses
in higher food prices he gains in lower taxes. Or at least thats how it would
work if Brussels were an honest open institution and not a bunch of lazy
money grabbing incompetents.

B2003