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Brexit promised farmers freedom – it gave them a six-hour lottery

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Brexit promised farmers freedom – it gave them a six-hour lottery
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At 10am on Tuesday September 22, farmers across England logged on to a government website to get their share of £233m in environmental funding. You’d think such a huge sum of money would be distributed in a carefully thought-out, orderly way, especially as farmers have just endured one of the most brutal summers in living memory and need all the help they can get. 

But no. This enormous sum was distributed online, on a first-come, first-served basis. Farmers simply had to get their application

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