“Give the farmers their money by Christmas”- Malcolm Moss MP signs EDM 13 on Single Farm Payments.

Malcolm Moss MP today joined other MP’s in calling on the Government to give all English farmers 80% of the money from Single Farm Payments, still owed to them as a result of the Government’s bungling distribution process, by Christmas.

North East Cambridgeshire’s farmers have recently experienced unprecedented hardships as Blue-tongue and Foot and Mouth were added to the woes of English farming.  Malcolm Moss said of these troubled times; “Single Farm Payments came about so that farmers would be able to enjoy greater control over their businesses, allowing them to find individual ways of protecting themselves from uncontrollable natural factors.  The Government has a responsibility to guarantee that factors within our control like administering the Single Farm Payment scheme go off without a hitch”.

The Government’s administrative errors in handing out the payments stand to cost the tax payer £348 million.  This is typical of a Prime Minster who David Cameron this week said “tries to control everything, but cannot run anything”.  Malcolm Moss MP said “how many more Whitehall blunders and resignations are there going to be before, in this case the farmers get what they deserve; we are now in a ludicrous position where the farmers don’t have their money and the tax payer has to pay more, bungling Brown needs to come up with the goods and I hope signing EDM 13 on Single Farm Payments will put some much needed pressure on him”.

Early Day Motion 13 on Single Farm Payments has been proposed by James Paice, Conservative MP for neighbouring constituency South East Cambridgeshire.  Malcolm Moss was today pleased to support his fellow Cambridgeshire MP stating; ‘although this is not just a problem in Cambridgeshire I am proud that Cambridgeshire are leading the fight for farmers rights and hope that the combined pressure of Conservatives in Cambridgeshire will instigate action on the part of the Government”.

EDM 13 on Single Farm Payments calls for the Government to help farmers to have ‘the financial certainty they need to continue producing the best food in the world’.  These sentiments are shared by Malcolm Moss who is now urging other MP’s to sign up to the EDM and ensure that farmers do not become the latest victims of Whitehall mismanagement.