Guy Smith @ meeting with guth today

[exmoor dave]

@exmoor dave
@gone up the hill
11am 8th December George Hotel South Molton
7pm 9th December Sandy Park Exeter
Book via AHDB website.

Thanks @Sid

Did you find that on the website?
I must have missed it if that's the case


I'd like to pop along, I'm down south molton alot these days.......but 11 am! Don't these people know how little day light we have as it is!

Still, I'll see if I can get there

 

[Henarar]

you going to the NFU meeting on Monday @exmoor dave ?

 

[Qman]

Have you not seen the St George brand ?

No and a friend who lives in France has never seen it either.

 

[exmoor dave]

you going to the NFU meeting on Monday @exmoor dave ?

What meeting is that?


The local agm was on last week, would have liked to have gone, but the organisation I'm chairman of was holding a bigger event on the same night that I was due to do the welcoming speech....... then I ended up ill all of last week so couldn't go to either!

 

[Qman]

Strange then that, France is our biggest export destination .

If that is right they do not promote the exports as British, they hide the fact. You do not see "Made in Britain" in France.

 

[romneymarsh]

No and a friend who lives in France has never seen it either.

When I've been over there there have always been big displays in the multiples. But you are correct if it's got British stamped on it , it won't shift. That's why St George was developed and it works

 

[Henarar]

What meeting is that?


The local agm was on last week, would have liked to have gone, but the organisation I'm chairman of was holding a bigger event on the same night that I was due to do the welcoming speech....... then I ended up ill all of last week so couldn't go to either!

30th Nov, Somerset County AGM, Bath & West Showground, 7pm
our local one was last night

 

[exmoor dave]

30th Nov, Somerset County AGM, Bath & West Showground, 7pm
our local one was last night

Probably not in that case, it's a fair drive for me & I've got alot of evening events to go to in the next few weeks and a night at home now and again would be nice.

 

[romneymarsh]

If that is right they do not promote the exports as British, they hide the fact. You do not see "Made in Britain" in France.

@Qman

http://www.ilovemeat.fr/agneausaintgeorge/

 

[Henarar]

Probably not in that case, it's a fair drive for me & I've got alot of evening events to go to in the next few weeks and a night at home now and again would be nice.

shame you could of heckled MB

 

[le bon paysan]

No and a friend who lives in France has never seen it either.

I have lived here over 12 years and never seen it.
LeClerc in Montmorillon have Wykes farm cheddar occasionally, in the artisan cheese section. No union Jack though .

 

[le bon paysan]

When I've been over there there have always been big displays in the multiples. But you are correct if it's got British stamped on it , it won't shift. That's why St George was developed and it works

Is that on the channel coast? Booze cruises and lots of ex-pat Brits up there.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Probably not in that case, it's a fair drive for me & I've got alot of evening events to go to in the next few weeks and a night at home now and again would be nice.

Did they ever get back to you about being more involved?

 

[gone up the hill]

30th Nov, Somerset County AGM, Bath & West Showground, 7pm
our local one was last night

Well at least they have it on at a sensible time and day unlike the Devon one which starts at 11 am tomorrow @ a Friday which for one is the day I like to get as many routine jobs out of the way as possible for the weekend and two its the store market day of the biggest livestock market in the SW which takes place 4 miles or so down the road!!...........

 

[gone up the hill]

So , seeing that some of the protagonists are on this morning I'll assume that you cannot name them . Seems to be this whole debate focuses more on personality than it should.

No it is about if the jobs are given out in a fair and transparent way to the people most qualified to do them, currently most people only know about PK because he tried to derail the advertising campaign and also is giving all the top jobs to his mate's, and Jayne King is only known for well being the failed editor of the FW, all these aspects are negative and are damaging the reputation of the AHDB!

 

[Henarar]

Well at least they have it on at a sensible time and day unlike the Devon one which starts at 11 am tomorrow @ a Friday which for one is the day I like to get as many routine jobs out of the way as possible for the weekend and two its the store market day of the biggest livestock market in the SW which takes place 4 miles or so down the road!!...........

perhaps not so many will go and rock the boat LOL
I thought the boys up the road like to say they run the biggest market in the south west, biggest one day market in Europe was banded about too
anyway you going ? stir some sh1t ????? LOL

 

[gone up the hill]

My informant tells me that the advertising wasn't pulled on purpose, it was a mistake by Jane King. She had all the prepared stuff which had been paid for and just forgot it. Then the government were blamed to cover her tracks and I think PK has taken some of the blame to soften the blow.

GUTH, you ought to realise that the "elected" people such as Guy and Meurig are not NFU staff. The NFU staff are professionals who are employed by the NFU and in general do a good job. They are like the civil servants in the government they advise the elected farmers and help them when they are in office.

In the 2000 elections where my county went for the OMOV it was defeated quite easily. I was disappointed as I'd tried hard to get things changed, but the majority didn't care how folk were voted on. Many counties seemed to be run by the "old guard" as some of the delegates were very old! Things got better when the county chairmen went onto the NFU council as most of them changed after two years so they kept getting new members on board.

But I do think the voting must be counted by an independent source so things look transparent. I have had suspicions that some of the voting in the past was rather iffy, it seemed like the elections in North Korea, you knew who would win and who wouldn't. I particularly remember the vote when Ben Gill defeated Chris French who would have made an excellent president. But they weren't having him!

No way in hell Jayne King "just" forgot about the advertising campaign, that story was given to deflect some of the blame away from PK ( and this I have from 3 very good sources ) PK is the ONE person at the AHDB that actively worked to stop the campaign!!

I know the likes of GS/MR are not NFU staff, the point is that NFU staff are counting the votes for the people that they have been working with very closely for the last two years and the chance for them to favour/ dis- favour someone that they either want or don't want to win is massive..

NFU election process is open to massive corruption and clearly isn't fit for purpose and hence why the NFU keep the results of who voted for who etc a closely guarded secret!!

How much does the NFU president get paid @Guy Smith ??

 

[gone up the hill]

perhaps not so many will go and rock the boat LOL
I thought the boys up the road like to say they run the biggest market in the south west, biggest one day market in Europe was banded about too
anyway you going ? stir some sh1t ????? LOL

Sedge shift some stock and there cant be many markets in the EU that shift so many animals week in/ out as they do... and anyway Somerset isn't in the SW

Hoping to go but wont know until the morning for sure as I have something else booked in for the morning and not sure how long that will take, 11 am is just about the most stupid time of day in the middle of winter to hold a meeting which livestock farmers can attend!

Did you go to the Somerset one?

 

[Henarar]

Sedge shift some stock and there cant be many markets in the EU that shift so many animals week in/ out as they do... and anyway Somerset isn't in the SW

Hoping to go but wont know until the morning for sure as I have something else booked in for the morning and not sure how long that will take, 11 am is just about the most stupid time of day in the middle of winter to hold a meeting which livestock farmers can attend!

Did you go to the Somerset one?

its on monday
I went to the local one yesterday, got fed to quite good evening got talking to someone about suck cows
and last time I looked Somerset was in the south west not that I would care if it meant all those going on holiday to the south west would just keep going till they got to Devon and annoy you

 

[Sid]

I'll will be milked , fed , bedded and there for 11. Might have to skip breakfast though :-(