As I’m still struggling to get some ‘poor’ farmer’s their farm payments from last year and already there are delays forecast for this year, I find the contents of this story absolutely preposterous.
The Rural Payments Agency are so full of threats and warnings about not filling-in the forms properly – and then they make such a cock-up of everything – one wonders how Ireland and France, for instance, can be ahead of the game and make the whole process so relatively painless?