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A question of conscience

Mark Devenport | 18:06 UK time, Wednesday, 9 January 2008

All this talk of the need for amnesties and so on might give people the impression that noone here has a conscience. But this is not true. The Department of Agriculture has just acknowledged the receipt of £5900 "conscience money" sent to it anonymously through the post. These payments come in from time to time from farmers who decide they have been getting too much in subsidies.

If anyone out there wants to send the blog a similar envelope we shall be happy to acknowledge its receipt. No, on second thoughts, stick to your favourite charity.

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  • At 04:26 PM on 10 Jan 2008,
  • RJ wrote:

Did the department send it back to Brussels?

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