The Mail editor has claimed £460000 in subsidies since 2011. And yet his paper continues to attack the EU,with Brexit as its goalWhat a delight to discover the Daily Mail’s editor Paul Dacre has trousered some £460000 since 2011 from the EU he daily traduces. Hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.)! That’s the charge, as Buzzfeed discovers the common agricultural policy Dacre excoriates for extravagance turns out to finance him for the encouragement of tourist activities” and “payments to farmers in areas with handicaps”. Someone on his Langwell estate, and a gillie maybe,place out a statement saying the payments “included reimbursements for extensive woodland planting schemes (native – not commercial trees) to improve the ecology of this wildly ravishing and remote area”, and the estate makes “a not insignificant contribution to the local economy”. Related: Daily Mail editor received £88000 in EU subsidies in 2014 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com