What legacy has prime minister Blair left on your farm? It's a question sister title Farmers Weekly and website www.fwi.co.uk asked the industry last week, as the long-awaited resignation was finally announced. Not surprisingly the answers were almostuniversally negative. From a tidal wave of red tape to the foot-and-mouth debacle and the fiasco of the dynamic hybrid system for single farm payments - Blair's reign has brought farmers heartache in spadefuls. Throughout it all one characteristic stands out as Blair's ultimate legacy - the resurrection of the ineffectual and meddling nanny state.
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