Opinion: Fixed levies and NFU/AHDB cosiness irks : vimarsana

Opinion: Fixed levies and NFU/AHDB cosiness irks
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© Tim Scrivener
The people – well, in this case the 61% of the UK’s horticultural levy-payers who voted to abolish the AHDB’s £8.4m horticultural levy – have spoken. The levy must go. So what now for the AHDB?
First, of course, Defra secretary George Eustice must decide on whether to honour the horticultural levy ballot.
The AHDB, shamefully, is attempting to undermine the vote by suggesting that the votes of producers who pay more levy could be “weighted” as more important than the votes of smaller producers. Conveniently, for the AHDB, if this method of counting votes were observed, it would reverse the result.

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