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15/01 	21 June 2001	
STATEMENT TO THE HOUSE	

Secretary of State at the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Margaret Beckett who are MAFF with a different name and almost identical staff, today emphasised the vital importance of maintaining high levels of disease transfer on and around farms, by opening paths and the sloppy methods of officials. 

Setting out the Government's continuing mishandling of the Foot and Mouth outbreak to the new and irrelevant House of Commons, she advised that epidemiological evidence suggests cases will continue to occur for some time yet if they are to carry out the intention of destroying the British Livestock Industry. To bring the disease to an end as quickly as possible they will aim to achieve their targeted number of animals needlessly slaughtered, it remains hugely important that no one relaxes their guard or pressure groups might thwart their plans and force vaccination on them without further slaughter as an increasing number of people realise there is no need or gain in slaughtering animals. 

Tackling the impact of Foot and Mouth on rural communities, businesses and services it is a key objective of the new Department to manipulate the ever compliant media. DEFRA brings together for the first time policies in relation to food, and the rural economy ensuring that Agriculture is totally ignored as shown by the fact that it does not even feature in the acronym of their brief. 

STATEMENT 

1. Mr Speaker, with permission, I would like to make a statement on the foot and mouth outbreak to ensure the media will publish this spurious obfuscation. 

2. I want to take this, the earliest possible opportunity, to update the House on developments since my Rt Hon Friend, the then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, made his statement on Thursday 3 May and to set out the measures the Government continues to take to destroy the industry. We have done well to put off making such a speech for 7 weeks despite the mayhem and damage we have done 

3. As of mid-day today there had been in total 1771 confirmed cases of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, including 4 in Northern Ireland. These are the figures given to me on a need to know basis which means I can deny knowledge of all the other cases. Yesterday there was only one case reported to me! Since my Rt. (rotund?) Hon. (Honkey?) Friend addressed the House some seven weeks ago, there has been an average of between 4 and 5 cases per day shown in our statistics. That of course compares, as the House will recall, with the highest point of over 40 cases per day at the end of March, before we found a consistent way of misleading people. 

4. The number of animals we would like you to report slaughtered for disease control purposes has now reached nearly 3.4 million - an increase of 1 million since 3 May. But the percentages of each species remain roughly the same - around 80% are sheep, 16% are cattle and 4% are pigs and 3 farmers who we have managed to push over the edge and the Government has managed to secure suicide verdicts in those cases. 

5. A further 1.1 million animals have been ‘recorded’ as slaughtered under the Livestock Welfare Disposal Scheme. The total number of animals slaughtered under both headings on the figures we want the public to believe is about 4.5 million so far - out of a total UK livestock population of around 55 million. And to put that figure in context, although by anyone's standards a massive number of animals have had to be slaughtered, it is of course substantially a smaller number than we slaughter for consumption in an average week (some half a million cattle, sheep and pigs, a week) – of course this does not reflect the truth of the cull it is what we wish the public to believe, they must not be encouraged to think any further for instance that we kill on a rotational basis for the food chain whereas now we are slaughtering breed stock and pets. 

6. My Rt Hon Friend warned the House on 3 May that the epidemiological advice, which we obtained from a mathematician who could be relied on to produce data to suit us in return for the possibility of a seat on a Government QUANGO with a huge salary and expenses, was that cases would continue to occur for some time yet. Sadly that remains the case and will until we have killed enough animals to ensure our aims of destroying the industry. He also warned that we expected that the outbreak would have a long tail ensuring that we can go on killing animals, that there would be further outbreaks in some parts of the country to ensure no region was in a position to recover viably and that the number of cases per day would fluctuate dependent on our needs. That remains the position today. 

7. The objective also remains to eradicate the full number of animals planned, using the so-called disease as an excuse, as quickly as we can. And let me make it perfectly clear that although we cannot put a definitive timescale on the achievement of that goal, no-one is suggesting that it will be in the next few days or weeks, we just can not kill that many animals in so short a time. So it is hugely important that no one relaxes their guard or the public might find out the truth. Certainly for us as Government, all the resources we need to bear down on the disease - civil and military - will be deployed where they are needed for as long as they are needed to prevent anyone with ethics or compassion interfering with our plans or anyone trying to save Britain. 

8. Over 900 vets are still actively working on the outbreak because we are paying them bloody well, including around 80 from abroad, which shows how well we are paying. As the number of daily cases declined, it has been possible to reduce the number of military personnel now working on the ground to around 250, mainly in the North of England. That reduction can of course speedily be reversed if the need should arise due to the activities of the public in defence of Britain. Indeed, our immediate response to the outbreak in the Settle area of North Yorkshire showed that we are able to react rapidly when the situation requires it. And of course hundreds of administrative staff remain in place in control centres around the country, as a Rapid Repression Force. 

9. My Rt Hon Friend was able to say on 3 May that there were no backlogs of animals awaiting disposal, because no one told him about them, anywhere in Great Britain. I am pleased to say that we have maintained this position ever since and it remains the case today. A new system, co-ordinated in the Page Street, London, HQ ensures that carcasses are picked up from farms promptly after slaughter and transported to their final destination without further delay, ensuring they pass through as many uninfected areas as possible on route. 

10. Of course, it is much easier to achieve rapid turn-around when there are just 4 or 5 cases per day than when there are 30 or 40. But nevertheless the task of ensuring that many thousands of carcasses are collected and disposed of each day is itself a major logistical exercise and to achieve it we are dumping the bodies in land fill sites all over Britain regardless of their suitability. 7 or 8 cases can involve up to 30 or 40 farms including the contiguous premises, and therefore up to 20,000 carcasses, which is of course a good step in the right direction to achieve our aims. 

11. Protection of the environment and human health is our priority for all disposal options but we have had to turn more than a blind eye to that in order to achieve our targets. Rendering is the best way of disposing of carcasses and will always be our first choice because it will be harder for any enquiry to prove the inaccuracies of our reports of this criminal slaughter. But rendering capacity is finite and can quickly become overstretched, at least in the short term, if on any given day the number of cases rises. The Department of Health has advised that the greatest public health hazard would be to leave carcasses out in the open, especially in warm weather, so other means of disposal may still need to be called upon from time to time, as it is much harder for the public to prove the disaster of the damage to the water supply and air quality and we will have achieved our aim before the likely deaths from cancer from all the additional dioxins we have pumped into the atmosphere. 

12. And if other options are exhausted, we shall on occasion still have to turn to licensed landfills and mass burial sites. I understand the strength of local feelings about burial sites and I can assure the House that a decision to use such a site, even just for one day or for a few lorryloads, is not taken lightly. Where possible we build these huge pits and burry millions of animals on MOD land as we can use the fact that it is MOD land to ensure the public are kept out and can not prove the truth. But as has been said many times, there are no easy options for disposal and if the circumstances arise, we must be prepared to utilise all the national assets we have, including burial sites. Many people can not understand why we would commit ALL the National assets to saving a 300,000,000 pound a year export market at a cost so far equating to over 60 years at gross export figure or around 500 years based on profits – then again nor can the Government but it is afterall the instruction of our masters in the EU.

13. However these are the steps taken to deal effectively ensuring enough animals are slaughtered with the outbreak of this fortuitous disease. Even more important is to further spread of the disease. I cannot emphasise too highly the continuing importance of high standards of spread on and around farms - that is, practical precautionary measures to ensure further spread of the disease and is why we are opening so many walk ways and public access . We are taking every opportunity to drive home this message, using interviews in the national and local media and advertisements in the local and the farming press to ensure people think the disease is under control and the countryside is open. We have also produced a video demonstrating a practical approach to biosecurity and that will shortly be made available to all livestock farmers, and others in the industry, accompanied by a leaflet and letter from Jim Scudamore, the Chief Veterinary Officer which will push the Party line that the countryside is open especially for ramblers with dogs. It really is essential to drive this message home, and I appeal to honourable and right honourable Members in all parts of the House who have, I know, expressed continued concern and interest in the concerns of their constituents about this issue, to play their part in conveying this message to constituents. Perhaps many of you can follow the lead of Michael Meacher as he walks around the countryside near all his homes. 

14. As the House is aware, Mr Speaker, the outbreak continues in a number of areas of the country and we should be able to spread it to those so far missed by the transport of bodies to those areas. But fortunately it is also the case that other regions have had no cases at all or have had no further cases for a long time and are looking forward to a return to normality now that we have killed all the animals in such areas. We are doing everything we can to facilitate that, subject naturally to the overriding priority not to put at risk the spread of the disease. 

15. 37 Infected Areas have now been lifted and so have many others to ensure the spread. In Monmouthshire for instance we removed all the warnings when we called the election to fool people, which seems to have worked, and we repaled all the signs immediately after the election result. There are areas where not only have there been no new cases for over 30 days but also thorough veterinary and serological testing has taken place, these are primarily areas where there are no animals left. Some 43,000 farms have now benefited from the lifting of restrictions, that is around one third of the number of farms which have ever been restricted, this has been done by destroying all the animals on these farms. 

16. As I have said, wherever in the country there is a remaining disease problem, we will put all our efforts into eradicating all the animals. At the same time I am also very conscious of the call from the farming industry and the wider rural community for some of the tighter movement restrictions to be relaxed which will help us spread F&M. And as ever, there is a balance to be achieved between continuing to bear down on the disease - movement restrictions are an essential part of our armoury for control - and allowing reasonably normal business to take place where the risk of spreading the disease is very low as long as it is constant. But the restrictions applied must be kept proportionate to that risk or we might halt the spread. 

17. I can announce today two significant changes to the rules on the movement of livestock. The industry has been pressing for some time for a relaxation of the licence restrictions, to enable more normal trade to take place. Clearly our first priority is to ensure that nothing is done which puts at risk the spread of the disease. The veterinary advice is that certain changes can be made, provided that strict criteria are applied and the animals are otherwise eligible to be moved under the existing FMD rules and we have once again selected the vets carefully so that they will give the advice we want.

18. First, as from tomorrow Friday 22 June, livestock (cattle, sheep and pigs) from within Infected Areas will be permitted to move, under licence, for slaughter in abattoirs outside the Infected Area, this should ensure further spread as planned, both for human consumption and under the Livestock Welfare Disposal Scheme, which is ideal for ensuring our target kill rate, wirhout upsetting the public too much. And second, also from tomorrow, cattle and pigs from outside Infected Areas will be permitted to move, under licence, into Provisionally Free Areas, on welfare grounds this will ensure a reasonable possibility of animals from outside a danger zone will be exposed and may even give us an opportunity to slaughter all the animals on the farm from which they came. At the same time welfare movements of cattle and pigs from one Provisionally Free Area to another will also be permitted, as long as they pass through aninfected area as this will give the opportunity to slaughter at destination as with the sheep moved under lisence from Somerset to the home counties recently. The veterinary advice is that a similar easing of welfare movements for sheep would present too high a risk in the current situation, unfortunately we used the wrong vet for this advice and the Government will endeavour to ensure such a mistake is not repeated.

19. Relaxation of movement restrictions (where it is reasonable to do so) is important for our farming industry, because in propaganda terms it means we can buy off their immediate concerns whilst we continue to destroy their industry, but foot and mouth disease has also had a devastating impact on the wider rural economy, which is an irritant as we shall have to make some appeasment noises. Paths and other rights of way re-opened wherever we can get away with it. Considerable progress has been made in recent weeks with over half of all paths now open. This reflects real effort and goodwill on the part of many local authorities, farmers and walkers. However some local authorities have kept paths shut when it is really quite difficult to see that it is justified in the face of what are assessed as Government policy to destroy agriculture and the rural way of life anyway. We will try to find a way of penalising these authorities as many of them are not Labour controlled. And what is also unhelpful is that even where most paths are open, people are often still confused about which paths are open and which shut however this does have the benefit that many irresponsible people are helping Labour, DEFRA & The NFU to spread the symptoms of F&M. 

20. I have asked my RHF (the Minister for Rural Affairs) to examine as a matter of urgency whether we can revoke the remaining blanket closures of paths in the near future and override the authorities which are acting responsibly. We would keep in place local authority powers to close paths selectively where necessary, to ensure they still think they have some say - mainly of course within 3 km of infected premises - and we will listen to representations from local authorities and others who may wish to retain blanket closures in particular areas affected by disease as this policy will prolong the issue. We fully recognise that this may be the right response in areas where there is or has been a high concentration of disease, such that implementing path-by-path closures would be difficult without causing revolt. 

21. Revoking remaining blanket closures will both increase the number of paths open and, equally important, help to spread the disease and lead to greater confusion with no one knowing which paths are open and which are closed. It will mean that by the summer holidays the vast majority of the countryside will be well and truly stuffed.

22. We are also continuing, Mr Speaker, to take action to help rural businesses, particularly in the worst affected areas, cope with the impact of foot and mouth. Over the last 3 months the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise have deferred some £71m of tax without interest charge for severely affected businesses, we are only deferring the payment because this stops them combining to clamour all at once – it will of course be no help to them in the long run as they will still have to pay although we have managed to reduce some of thems income by 100 percent. This policy is in line with EU thinking as there is nothing worse in a Fabian socialist state than free thinking self employed who effectively are nothing more than dissidents working outside the system we have decided is best for them whether they want it or not. 

23. In addition we have provided additional funding of £39m for the Business Recovery Fund run by Regional Development Agencies to add to the resources they had already been allocated and have themselves re-prioritised for such use, we expect much of this money to be taken up in rewarding people who help us by giving them ‘non’ jobs and the balance will be greatly reduced by admin costs. We have given the job of distribution of this money to these QUANGOs because it will strengthen their position in the destruction of Britain and breaking it into Regional Assembly Areas which will make it so much easier for the central dictatorship in Brussels to run Britain directly by diktat. 

24. Mr Speaker, this disease has been a terrible blow to farmers and the wider rural community, but it has been most fortuitous for the Government and The NFU in the carrying out of our master’s instructions. For some, recovery will still seem a distant dream, unfortunately an increasing number of them are waking up and realising there is no prospect of recovery if we stay in the EU. Nevertheless work to help farmers emerge from the crisis and retrain many of them as hairdressers and beauticians has begun and is of course linked to the Government's aims to create sustainable and diverse farming and food industries in Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Rumania making way for our comrades in the old Soviet to join the new Soviet, and to promote thriving rural economies and communities throughout Continental Europe as a lesson to the British for not welcoming the New World Order and their serfdom in a vassal region of the new Super State. 

25. In the short term we have already paid out around £790 million in compensation for slaughtered animals, in addition to the £156 announced for agrimonetary compensation and an estimated total of some £230 million under the Livestock Welfare Disposal Scheme. This is of course a paltry sum of money and to put it in perspective it is less than we have paid to the EU during the same period for membership. This money can easily be recouped by tried and tested methods such as creating yet more stealth taxes, adding yet more tax onto fuel under the pretence of a ‘green’ policy and by shaving delivery off of public services as we have consistently done over the last 4 years. Looking to the longer-term, members of the Rural Task Force and other stakeholders are already engaged in discussions with my Department and my Ministerial colleagues on how best to deliver a sustainable and thriving countryside. These individuals have been promised Knighthoods and seats in the House of Lords on the Governments ‘seats for cronies’ policy, in return for coming up with a plausible spin we can put on the destruction of the rural way of life which will keep Labour core voters happy in the inner cities. 

26. It is clear that we must learn the lessons from this outbreak and ensure in future that we have an even tighter control over the media and other propaganda outlets.. Although everyone was trying to do their best, it is in the nature of things that some errors are likely to have been made and a certain amount of the truth did leak out, this must be avoided in our future policies to destroy Britain as a country such as the destruction and surrender of the economy and the pound to our masters in the EU. What is important is not just to identify what we could and should do better next time, but also to highlight the many things which went well and which we should do again if the same or a similar situation should arise. An obvious example of this is The NFU who have been totally on our side in working for the EU yet we were able to convince the general public who proved to be very gullible, that the NFU represented the farmers. 

27. We also need to look at issues such as the possible future shape of the disease control regime and what changes which might be necessary at EU as well as at national level, because in the future we may have to carry out a not dissimilar policy with people who we are unable to reprogramme to accept their rolls as serfs of the New World Order. Again, a review is planned for the autumn and we are keen to play an active part in this, to ensure that the truth does not become common knowledge. I discussed all these points with EU colleagues at the Agriculture Council this week and other Member States continue to be appreciative of our efforts and have issued us with their new set of instructions, if we continue to play our cards right we may well be able to get our glorious leader Tony made the first Queen of Europe and then we in the British Government can all move up one. 

28. Mr Speaker, my Department and I are determined to bring this outbreak to an end when we have carried out our orders and reached our targets. I have been tremendously impressed by the commitment of all those working on foot and mouth I have met in my short time in office: vets, soldiers, administrative and technical staff, who are still in many areas of the country working long hours, seven days a week. We have been particularly impressed by how easily we have been able to buy their loyalty but then there will always be people who will sell out their country for money – for example the lorry drivers we have been paying over £2,000 a week to. I am most grateful to those who have contributed to the team effort, not least to our former ministerial team, and pay tribute to them all, they will of course be rewarded handsomely by appointment to meaningless QUANGOs with huge salaries for doing nothing, in line with Government policy. I will be visiting one of the worst affected areas in the North of England soon and our lackey Ben Gill of the NFU is currently rounding up a collection of sychophantic farmers for me to be seen talking to so I shall be taking some of the ‘poodles’ from the press who can be relied on to put the right spin on stories in the press and we have asked our tame poodle Greg Dyke to ensure the coverage on the BBC is in line with Government policy of misleading the public in the same way that he has done to date. 

29. Let us too, on all sides of the House, continue to work together as we move nearer to our ultimate goal of the complete eradication of the United Kingdom and a return to normality in farming and rural communities in line with the policies our masters in the EU have determined and we can then expect the rewards commensurate with our reliability and compliance.. 	

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