Well, no. I have to disagree with you. What the Welsh farming industry should be asking itself is not what is going to happen post Brexit, but what would have happened if we had not had Brexit. I have to disagree with Rhun ap Iorwerth when he says that the common agricultural policy has been favourable to Welsh farmers. The common agricultural policy is not a static one. The accession of some of the poorest countries in Europe has meant that many of the farmers of these countries qualify for subsidies before Welsh farmers, so UK farm subsidies have been falling year on year for a very long time, and, under European rules, would continue to decline. We then have to ask ourselves: where does the money to pay these farm subsidies come from in the first place? Well, the answer is, of course, from the UK’s contribution to the European Union. It does not take rocket science to extrapolate from this that, if the UK was not subsidising farming across the whole of Europe, there would be a much bigger sum of money to invest in the British and Welsh farming industry. The challenge for us here in this Assembly is to make sure that the UK Treasury passes on these huge savings to the Welsh farming economy in the correct proportions.

Unlike many in this Chamber, I am confident that the great, hard-working, efficient and innovative farming community of the UK and Wales, freed from the excessive bureaucracy and legislative burden of the common agricultural policy, will prosper as never before. Indeed, I have heard one farmer say that, given the way regulations were going under CAP—I’m sorry, I couldn’t finish that one off—it would not have been long before he would be called upon to tag the rats on his farm. We have a duty in this Assembly to protect our farming industry, so we should all unite in making sure that not only do our Welsh farmers not lose out one penny piece on the subsidies they were entitled to before Brexit, but that they should also share in the huge financial gains from the UK being freed from subsidising farming throughout the other 27 countries of the European Union.