Who is best prime minister for farming

Bill the Bass

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cumbria
Rory Stewart understands farming very well, he has a lot of farming friends in his constituency who's views he respects and listens to. Even Gove in his current position will not have spoken to and taken the effort understand farmers and farming as well.

Stewart wont get the job though as he is a pragmatist and the Tory's (and the Labour party for that matter) want ideologists because the electorate has evolved by wit of social media to like simple politics and binary choices.
 

chaffcutter

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Arable Farmer
Location
S. Staffs
Stewart is still going to try to push through the same plan as Teresa, after 3 tries already that's a total waste of time !

I thought none of then came out of a (in my view) poorly moderated debate anyway. I think it ought to be Boris and Gove as the end two but Hunt was not too bad last night.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Rory Stewart was at least pragmatic and reasonably honest. The rest are in denial of the parliamentary arithmetic that finished off Theresa May and are trying the same old busted flush of threatening no deal that won't work and risks our livelihoods.

Rory Stewart's first name is Roderick. Now realise why he doesn't use it.

Rod Stewart for PM.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
You know politics is in a poor state when the overwhelming favourite for Prime Minister is Boris Johnson, with the only real alternative being a Corbyn led socialist/communist dystopia.

The pool of talent has never been more empty than it is now. The big beasts are long gone, it seems.

Definitely a vacuum. The waffle won't cut it anymore. We either go down the right wing nationalist route or back pedal to full eu membership one nation Tory ideology, as per Edward Heath. The smoothest route will the Edward Heath/ Rory Stewart route but just can't see it happening. Dogma and prejudice, pride and emotion is now too firmly I control and that is exceptionally dangerous.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Andrea Leadsom gave a talk to my sons politics class at school when she was environment secretary. He asked a few farming questions to which she had no real answers. So she's probably the best choice.
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
Stewart seems the only one with any empathy for the electorate, the others are only interested in themselves and their upper class cronies.

Any decent opposition party would have swept this joke of a government down into the drains of history many months ago. But to the detriment of democracy and the well being of this country we have no credible government and no credible opposition to oust it.
 

texas pete

Member
Location
East Mids
Definitely a vacuum. The waffle won't cut it anymore. We either go down the right wing nationalist route or back pedal to full eu membership one nation Tory ideology, as per Edward Heath. The smoothest route will the Edward Heath/ Rory Stewart route but just can't see it happening. Dogma and prejudice, pride and emotion is now too firmly I control and that is exceptionally dangerous.

Yes, waffle and soundbites, such a successful winning formula in the Blair era and now the norm.

I can't see anyone with the skill, determination and sheer bloody mindedness required to deliver the seemingly undeliverable.

You do dread to think where it will end.
 
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