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Cummings is a massive hypocrite.
Having complained about EU subsides “some..spent in absurd ways like subsidies for very rich landowners to do stupid things” he is recorded as being Co-owner since 2013.
So a decent portion of EU €230k subsidies is his theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Having complained about EU subsides “some..spent in absurd ways like subsidies for very rich landowners to do stupid things” he is recorded as being Co-owner since 2013.
So a decent portion of EU €230k subsidies is his theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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“His father reportedly bought (it) after retiring from the oil industry. Land Registry searches show (Dominic Cummings) was a co-owner in 2013. Reports suggest he moved to the farm in 2002, after leaving his job as the Conservative party’s director of strategy.”
“His father reportedly bought (it) after retiring from the oil industry. Land Registry searches show (Dominic Cummings) was a co-owner in 2013. Reports suggest he moved to the farm in 2002, after leaving his job as the Conservative party’s director of strategy.”
3/ “A profile of the Oxford-educated Cummings...explains that after quitting the post, “he then proceeded to spend two and a half years in a bunker he and his father built for him on their farm in Durham, reading science and history and trying to understand the world”.
Whoopy-do
Whoopy-do
4/ The website Farmsubsidy.org, which lists EU rural subsidies, reveals that the Durham farm received c. €208,000 between 2000 and 2009, c. €20,000 a year.
The money was paid out to Cummings’s parents and another family member for several reasons including “set aside”
The money was paid out to Cummings’s parents and another family member for several reasons including “set aside”
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“A separate website, operated by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, confirms further payments of roughly £6,500 each were made to Cummings’s parents “for practices beneficial for climate and environment” in 2017 and 2018.”
“A separate website, operated by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, confirms further payments of roughly £6,500 each were made to Cummings’s parents “for practices beneficial for climate and environment” in 2017 and 2018.”
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“A third, offline database, reveals that subsidies worth nearly £19,000 were paid out in 2014.”
Good to see this despiser of EU subsidies for everyone else used every opportunity to ensure he and his family made NO claims.
Not. He could. He didn’t.
“A third, offline database, reveals that subsidies worth nearly £19,000 were paid out in 2014.”
Good to see this despiser of EU subsidies for everyone else used every opportunity to ensure he and his family made NO claims.
Not. He could. He didn’t.
