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- North Somerset.
@Bald Rick Who wrote the Times leader? That might shed light on the rational behind such a slanted piece. Likely to be one of the usual suspects.
Times Leader
- Thread starter Bald Rick
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beardface
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- East Yorkshire
Not credited but I strongly suspect Ben Webster is behind it. I think he’s their environmental correspondent and usually enjoys farmer baiting.
Times are also running a year long “Clean it up“ campaign for cleaner rivers and enjoy bashing both the water companies and farmers. Had a go at “mega” farms recently
Wolds Beef
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I am afraid that the Times is more left supporting than right these days!! And enjoys farmer at the least provocation.
WB
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- DD9.
That article is written in a very knowledgeable fashion which disguises the author‘s position of absolute ignorance of the subject that they’ve written on very well.
Interested in farming
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Lads you're mugs to think Tory = pro farming. The clue was in the rivers bit in the article for a start. The huntin' shootin' fishin' fraternity aren't hugely pro farmer, they are pro hobby. Read up on the exemptions the tories tried to dream up over covid restrictions for grouse shooting and the panic over the ski season being affected.
The party is run by freemarketeers who believe that the market solves all. I've been reading about the New Zealand miracle for 15 years from junk tanks like the IEA and so on. The writing was on the wall years ago.
Pardon my cynicism but I made a conscious decision to go into manufacturing to make things after University and lived to regret it. Watched my contemporaries move into finance, government and services and make loads of money while I was 'downsized' from a job that created actual things.
The party is run by freemarketeers who believe that the market solves all. I've been reading about the New Zealand miracle for 15 years from junk tanks like the IEA and so on. The writing was on the wall years ago.
Pardon my cynicism but I made a conscious decision to go into manufacturing to make things after University and lived to regret it. Watched my contemporaries move into finance, government and services and make loads of money while I was 'downsized' from a job that created actual things.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
The one good thing to come out of this article is the 100% negativity in the comments underneath
- Location
- North Wales
Not only the sentence you've highlighted. The following one saying that farmers are hampered from diversifying. Why should they diversify inorder to continue producing food for less than COP.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
The Tory Party has been overrun by what was once its lunatic fringe. The cognitive dissonance within it is detectable from space now it's allowed racists, liars, traitors, profiteers to hold actual government powers.
email sent.
Wonder if they will grace you with a response?
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
I just had a scroll through the comments below the article. In the main negative to the article and pro UK food production. 41 Comments when I looked.
SilliamWhale
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Telegraph is 75p a month. Keeps you in touch with the day to day media nonsense
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
I think the Guardian is going behind a paywall too
SilliamWhale
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I've come to the conclusion that your a bit weird!
not fussed tbh, I have suggested where he should be shining a light if he wants to do a story on how today's food system is robbing us blind, would rather he pursue that than faff about replying to me.
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
Funny old world. Farmers complain they are price takers not price makers. Are Newspaper not the same these days since the entry into market and rise of the 'free' news on the internet. As we see with all (?) mainstream newpapers running at a loss. Expensive to man and run a quality broadsheet paper title. Bit like farming maybe!
smcapstick
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- Kirkby Lonsdale
My OH has a subscription to The Times and I find it unreadable.
It’s a limp-wristed, Cornish pastie shoe-wearing circle jerk of weak men and testosterone-filled women. Bloody awful.
It’s a limp-wristed, Cornish pastie shoe-wearing circle jerk of weak men and testosterone-filled women. Bloody awful.
When you realise whose agenda these "news" papers are putting forward, you come to realise that they are not worth paying in washers.
Is Alison Pearson still moist for Boris?
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- sw scotland
30% of city air pollution is from agriculture
. Not cars, lorries, buses, airports but from farming.
How is that?
. Not cars, lorries, buses, airports but from farming.How is that?
Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published
Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.
From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024
Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024
Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...