100,000 pigs to be destroyed

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Thanks Jeremy, for various reasons I won't be "ramping up my social media".
Firstly, I don't really do any social media beyond TFF.
Secondly, in my particular situation, we are starting free range finishing from a reduced sow herd, highlighting this would greatly confuse the important message. The pigs look great and are thriving in this situation.
Thirdly, there are various other good reasons for me to keep my trap firmly shut.
Fully behind everything that the NPA is doing, I do tell them that regularly and very glad to help "under the radar".
Understand all that . Personally I’m limited as an employee of a supplier for other reasons

BoJo just asked about pigs crisis . Says there are industry lobbyists wanting to continue with low wage immigrant labour and should invest ……….
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Well Boris f…ed christmas last year anyway. I cannot see how this has happened. If it’s because EU workers have returned home because Brexit where’s the harm in offering fixed term work visas even if you supported Brexit you should be able to see the problem and at the end of the visa term the foreigners go home. Or alternatively you can destroy the economy on a matter of principle.
Do you think Christmas would have been better with Jeremy Corbyn running the country?

He was the only alternative.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
You have to now wonder if Corbyn was actually capable of doing anything worse than the demented shopping trolley and his vegan wife.
They would have followed the same ‘Science’ so probably done the same. They did call for more restrictions but that was probably because if they had said anything different they would have been classed as callous. I always thought the government didn’t treat people as intelligent adults although the petrol problem has shown that they knew that a lot of their new followers weren’t to be trusted.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Perhaps we should vote in someone for PM that doesn't live in the UK, they seem to know far more about what is going on here and how to fix it then anyone here.
Touchy. However someone from outside the country might do a better job than our American born prime minister. To give him his due he did renounce his American citizenship…. In 2016 a very patriotic man.
 

Muck Spreader

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin
Boris is doing ok I don’t see what the problem is myself country is booming like never before, highest employment ever , farms not been better off for decades builders making money like never before , problems yes always will be problems but on the whole as far as im
Concerned it’s as good as it gets .
Perhaps you should look at the title of this thread again!
 
Boris is doing ok I don’t see what the problem is myself country is booming like never before, highest employment ever , farms not been better off for decades builders making money like never before , problems yes always will be problems but on the whole as far as im
Concerned it’s as good as it gets .

Unless of course you are shooting your piglets, gassing turkey poults or ploughing in a veg crop.

Or have a small business facing bankcruptsy because you can't get deliveries or working through the night preparing import, export paper work.

Otherwise I'm all right Jack, I'm not affected badly but I know many are hurting & many more will be soon.
 

Hilly

Member
Unless of course you are shooting your piglets, gassing turkey poults or ploughing in a veg crop.

Or have a small business facing bankcruptsy because you can't get deliveries or working through the night preparing import, export paper work.

Otherwise I'm all right Jack, I'm not affected badly but I know many are hurting & many more will be soon.
Yes well we have all had a turn at some point, sad but sh!t happens always has always will . On the whole the U.K. is doing very well at the moment, no need for the boris bashing especially when the alternatives were Jeremy corybn .
 
Ask them. Are you saying the ones that voted Remain will come out any better ? I didn't vote Brexit

Personally, I voted remain and deplored all the misleading lies that garnered in leave votes for the Brexit Buss. But having been out voted I had anticipated that our lords and masters in government would have formulated plans for getting us through the many predictable problems that would come as we navigated the troubling waters of Brexit.

When the leave vote came through, do you remember the looks on the faces of top Brexit politicians; I believe that they never really expected the British public to have taken their, bait hook line and sinker.

I don't think that pig farmers and processors are our biggest problem but it's all the headless chickens in the government, house of commons, and house of lords that will take us all down with them.

Perhaps all Brexitears, antis, and neutrals should link arms together and march on Downing Street and demand abdication of the overgrown schoolboy playing the buffoon down there; united we can stand but disunited we may well go down with the rest of them.
 

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