Competition, the Market, Free Trade, Globalisation. The mantra of all UK governments since 1979 with eyes firmly fixed across the Atlantic and holding up the United States of America as a model of enterprise, initiative and entrenpreneurs to which we Brits should aspire.
Meanwhile the USA has spent $21 billion
subsidising it's cotton industry in the past 9 years, a position the World Trade Organisation has twice ruled as illegally contravening world trade rules, and means farmers like Moussa [pictured] earn under $2 a day.
#Capitalism.
Meanwhile the USA has spent $21 billion subsidising it's cotton industry in the past 9 years, a position the World Trade Organisation has twice ruled as illegally contravening world trade rules, and means farmers like Moussa [pictured] earn under $2 a day.
True, but - I'd need to check - is the EU is a bigger subsidiser? And in an interesting twist on the politics of Fairtrade, Fairtrade Foundation stats have been seized on by anti-EU activists as a reason to get out. (These people are not particularly moved by the predicament of African farmers, you understand - they just have an, um, acute sense of the foreign...)
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