Scrap the CAP, it's killing our farms

I was talking to a friend who's a farmer just outside Perth and he was at his wit's end, the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has been a disaster for his business, the paperwork alone is crippling him, and the subsidies never seem to make it to the people who actually need them.

I've seen it time and time again, small farms being squeezed out by massive agricultural corporations, it's not what farming should be about, it's not about producing cheap food for supermarkets, it's about producing good food for local people.

The Scottish parliament should have the power to create its own agricultural policy, one that supports small farms and promotes local produce, we don't need some faceless bureaucrat in Brussels telling us how to run our farms.