Observations

In our report above we have analysed and published the headline numbers on farming. As with all our research there is a lot more detail but the important thing is to focus on the big numbers, given our state broadcaster’s inability to inform the public.

Despite the above, the National Farmers Union has only ever been an enthusiastic member of the Establishment's opposition to Brexit. We don't doubt the NFU would have us back in the EU like a shot.

Energy, water, now food

The EU was warned about its reliance on Russian gas, oil, and coal. It refused to listen. (In particular the Germans refused to listen.) As a result it has an energy crisis so severe that Germany is even firing up 150 mothballed coal-fired power stations.

The water shortage in France is now so bad that President Macron has just announced plans to tax water. Yes, you read that correctly.

Food for thought

And now we have looked at one of the other essentials for life: food. The 36% plunge in the number of EU27 farms in just 15 years cannot be explained away as a blip by the EU Commission. This is serious, not only for the livelihoods of those who were employed in agriculture but also in the security of the food supply chain.

History has proved that centrally-managed economies - which is what the EU is rapidly becoming - are disastrous for those unfortunate enough to be under their control. The biggest mass-murderer of the 20th century, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, proved that, along with his successors until the Soviet Union was finally defeated in 1991. Our Chairman recommends reading “Bloodlands” by the historian Timothy Snyder for a chilling account.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them, as the saying goes. It seems that those who inhabit the corridors of the EU Commission's Berlaymont building in Brussels are badly in need of such a history lesson.

Regular readers know we occasionally try to lighten the mood. Here is our effort today. Is this a question soon to be asked of Ursula von der Leyen?

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