Yosemite Sam
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- Wiltshire
What about Ian lidel grainger, he quite pro farmer
Leadsom for the chop?
- Thread starter Great In Grass
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What is George Eustice like he is her deputy?
exmoor dave
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- exmoor, uk
exmoor dave
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- exmoor, uk
Heavily pushing for insurance type schemes I believe.
Completely unsuitable for livestock, yet still pushing the idea
Yosemite Sam
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- Wiltshire
No good then. I thought he would be quite good going on what he writes in the Western Daily Press
Haha! Been waiting for someone to suggest my mp
Unusual choice, until I Googled him;
https://www.rishisunak.com/campaigns/standing-farmers
What makes him stand out for you?
Neil Parrish is the only one that I can think of. Owen Patterson's hard Brexit stance isn't in our interests at all & I quite like the idea of environmental payments for providing what the taxpayers seem to want to support, even if it's not food production. I think the days of global commodity production here are numbered unless we get a weak £ to tilt the balance in our favour. Perhaps I should be picking a Labour candidate instead?
Come on, @gone up the hill - who do you think is the best of a bad bunch? You're happy enough to denounce the other suggestions.
gone up the hill
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- Devon
All these schemes suggested are totally unworkable and basically are selling the industry down the river!
matthew
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- Cornwall, SW England
matthew
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- Cornwall, SW England
If Useless is still pushing insurance for TB breakdowns, even with a government underwrite, that was a no in 2004. The insurance companies couldn't stop laughing when I spoke to the underwriters.
NE new stuff to replace ELS appears to have hit some buffers with regards to payments. It appears to be a mess.
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- Near Colchester
You could look at Rebecca Pow, a new mp last time, farming family, went to Wye College years ago (like me) and knows a lot of farmers.
https://www.rebeccapow.org.uk/about-me
https://www.rebeccapow.org.uk/about-me
gone up the hill
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But that is the just the sort of schemes that the likes of NP/ the NFU etc etc are pushing to replace the BPS payments.
Very likely that the NT/RSPB etc will be the ones who end up getting 80/90% of future money post subs as these schemes are just unworkable for the majority of working farms.
Doubt it will make much difference who gets the job.
Whoever it is will just have to toe the party line since Brexit that subsidies in their current form have to go and that only payments for environmental schemes should remain. Oh, and don't go upsetting the supermarkets or let food inflation upset treasury figures either.
Quite entertaining looking at the suggestions made on here followed by the local's saying "No way, round here we all know they are a to$$er"
Bit like when your local big noise farmer is featured in FW and comes across as a great expert to the rest of the country
Whoever it is will just have to toe the party line since Brexit that subsidies in their current form have to go and that only payments for environmental schemes should remain. Oh, and don't go upsetting the supermarkets or let food inflation upset treasury figures either.
Quite entertaining looking at the suggestions made on here followed by the local's saying "No way, round here we all know they are a to$$er"
Bit like when your local big noise farmer is featured in FW and comes across as a great expert to the rest of the country