Good News for British Tekkies?

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In Britain conservationists are worried that ongoing EU budget negotiations on the future of money provided through the Common Agricultural Policy could pose a threat to the British countryside and wildlife. These are vital funding streams which have underpinned major environmental improvement in the UK countryside over the last 20 years. But the metal detectorists will be happy, they have always been very wary of these conservation schemes which they fear will affect their ability to go onto properties managed in a conservation-guided manner and take away the artefacts from sites and assemblages from these areas of the historic environment. Also they have been heard complaining that subsidised shallow ploughing which does not dig into the subsoil layers of archaeological sites is failing to bring up enough collectables to satisfy them. It's a bit ironic that in a week when British archaeologists have been categorised by the ignorant and unhinged as mere "bunny huggers", they are awfully quiet about the possible effects on the historic environment of a curtailing of EU-funded environmental stewardship schemes.