Just how commie was Britain
Posted by davidncl on March 3, 2010
Really, I thought this was a spoof at first:
Under the Wool Marketing Act of 1950, the BWMB is required to register all producers with four or more sheep (with the exception of Shetland, which has its own arrangement. There are currently 53,000 registered producers.
The BWMB is the British Wool Marketing Board. And all your sheep are belong to us. No, really, if you have sheep you have to register with these tools. And sell your wool to them. Then they market it for you. Isn’t that great?
A farmer run organisation, the BWMB was established in 1950 to operate a central marketing system for UK fleece wool, with the aim of achieving the best possible net return for producers.
None of that stinky free market chaos here. Oh no:
The Board of 9 elected producer members, representing 9 different areas of the UK, and 2 Independent Members, meets eight times a year and reports back to nine regionally elected committees.
It wasn’t so long ago when we had the Milk Marketing Board and Gas Board and the Electricity Board and hosts of other boards too. Still at least we have some grounds for hope:
It is the only organisation in the world that collects, grades, sells and promotes fleece wool and the only remaining agricultural commodity board in the UK.
