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nope.
I’m a sh!t kicking contractor. People pay me based on the value I can add to their business.
Mail on Sunday front page tommorrow :-(
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nope.
I’m a sh!t kicking contractor. People pay me based on the value I can add to their business.
If they can shink your ship, they can shot your farmlands as well or they can shot your fuel supply means or can spread agricultural diseases or something else, so they can stop your agricultural activity in many ways. Most of the countries have their food stores for "bad" days, freshened periodically, makes no difference produce it yourself to store or import it from another country to store. Dont get me wrong I love farming but I cant ignore facts.
Well while all the bankers,think tank know all’s and the rest of the so far off this plant lot get their own way and sell us all down the river.Who will shout first .Without food which could easily happen ( just look at this virus situation) it won’t be much fun with empty bellies telling everyone they got it wrong.Because mate if we have land and a few livestock we won’t be hungry.The world has gone mad,17 year old shouting at us oldies and everyone following her would they put their heads in the oven as my mother used to say.
So why should anyone feel obligated to pay you for contacting and yet nobody should feel obligated to pay a farmer for anything?
glasshouse
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Yes, its 1922 all over again!!!
Cowabunga
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While I agree with your conclusion you are wrong to assume that these people care one jot about the fate of a few farms and farming families spread out over a very large area that contribute so little, as they see it, to the nation's economy. They talk the talk, depending on the audience addressed at the time, but they are not concerned in the slightest. In fact people like Rickard actively want a complete resetting of agriculture which will be facilitated initially by farm business failures on a grand scale. That's even before you consider the latest fad for forestation and re-wilding rather than food production.
Meanwhile POTUS Trump tells his farmers to buy bigger tractors and produce more!
glasshouse
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Boris will put us back on the gold standard next week
Hindsight
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While I understand and empathise with the sentiment I fear you are getting a little reactionary.
Even if all land had no value and no agricultural mortgages could be serviced by the mortgagee farmer it would represent a small / tiny proportion of total secured lending. And if all the farmers in the land produced no commodities then for a couple of years it would be imported.
And anyway the banks would have the freehold by then and might even rent it out for a peppercorn rent to new start ups who might just produce, well, wheat, barley etc.
To be frank if I were a Treasury economist disillusioned with the current structure of UK ag holdings and farmers what you have suggested would be an ideal way to nationalize land with no public expense and repopulate with a totally new band of farmers who would not be harking back to the past.
Are you sure you are not a Treasury economist in your spare time? Just come on here to groom!??
Statins I gather are good for blood pressure!? Or a couple of glasses Claret.
Scribus
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Wasn't Gummer have said to have two brains at some point? Fat lot of good it did him.
EDIT, Just looked it up, it was actually David Willetts
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glasshouse
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It took nine years of dereliction from 1922 to 1931 for the govt to reintroduce price support for cereals
Labour took power in 1927
Just swap 19 for twenty and our future is already written
Labour took power in 1927
Just swap 19 for twenty and our future is already written
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Yes , weed them out
At least they are your own idiots now
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glasshouse
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Bolox
glasshouse
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He put his other brain in a roll and fed it to his daughter live on tv
spin cycle
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wonder what that tosser dr leunig was doing this sunday morning while i was sorting this lot out
I am off to tesco, I am going to fill up my trolley with what I need and when the person behind the checkout says that is £69.72 I will ask why they feel that I am under any obligation to pay supermarkets anything.
Wish me luck
No idea but that ewe was reading the paper
Scribus
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Look what happened to Animal Farm when they chased the farmer away!
Exfarmer
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Clever sheep in East Anglia
Calm down dears, the man is a radical thinker paid to thought provoke. One of his ideas was to stop funding northern areas and ask people to migrate south. If asked his opinion on the need for government ministers he would probably say the country could be run by a super computer. Commonsense doesnt enter his thought process because he isnt paid to make commonsense decisions.
beardface
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The reason food is cheap is because of domestic production. Imports have to compete to get supermarket shelf space. Without domestic production exporters to UK would become price setters rather than takers leading to a massive increase in food prices. Hence why Singapore pay around 20% more for groceries than we do.