- Location
- Durham, UK
Wonder what youtuber that could be.....hmmmmmmm
Red tractor stakeholder survey on governance
- Thread starter ajd132
- Start date
- Location
- Scottish Borders
What a fantastic programme. Although I had noticed about it on the news never did I realise what a dispicable affair it was. It really brought home how terrible it was. What worries me is it will have been just as bad in the various nhs scandals etc etc
The problem is like having a multi-headed serpent; Chop one head off and it grows another. So it is with NFU presidents; The culture within the top level of the NFU will produce a new President with the same policies as the last one.
I think they’ll soon start listening when the shelves are empty, and they will be. Also the Govt would be very negligent if they ignored the fact that the NFU has hardly any farming members!
- Location
- Cirencester
This is the question that they need to answer, I would wager that farming members prob only make up 20% of the membership. I have asked but there is never an answer given. Yet another of the NFU's dirty little secrets!
If red tractor questions are banned how about something like,
Do you know why so many farmers have left the NFU recently?
Possibly add
People are saying it's because of your support for the green.... red.... oh hang on I better not say that!
Could they not be brought in front of the Agriculture Select Committee and required to divulge their membership statistics?
I think following the Horizon criminal persecution of sub postmasters, there might be some MPs who might like to dig a little deeper when they hear about some of the tricks the NFU gets up to.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
It should perhaps be noted that BFU’s membership numbers are a ‘dirty little secret’ too, before you get too excited.
I don’t know how many members either ‘Union’ has but, as seems to be the fashion, I would wager that the NFU still has many times the number of farmer members that the BFU does.
- Location
- Durham, UK
Quick look over there.........It should perhaps be noted that BFU’s membership numbers are a ‘dirty little secret’ too, before you get too excited.
I don’t know how many members either ‘Union’ has but, as seems to be the fashion, I would wager that the NFU still has many times the number of farmer members that the BFU does.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Rather than accepting bollox claims?
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Maybe we should phrase the question, how many farming members has the NFU gained this year - a number or % increase. I'd be happy for the BFU to answer a similar question put to them .............It should perhaps be noted that BFU’s membership numbers are a ‘dirty little secret’ too, before you get too excited.
I don’t know how many members either ‘Union’ has but, as seems to be the fashion, I would wager that the NFU still has many times the number of farmer members that the BFU does.
- Location
- Durham, UK
Bolox claims about the nfu or the bfu?
Remember the bfu arent the ones selling farmers down the river
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
It is ridiculous to complain about NFU membership figures being a ‘dirty little secret’, when exactly the same is true of the BFU.
- Location
- East Sussex
I don’t think that’s the way the government will look at it. They will have listened to the NFU and heard a bit of shouting in the background from other organisations. That will be good enough and policy will be set accordingly.
They will simply listen to the bits they want to hear and that won’t be coming from us so something will have to happen to make gov sit back and listen to the BFU.
Don’t let the BFU suffer from delusions of grandeur.
- Location
- Cirencester
Nonsense, you do spout some nonsense!!
BFU is a fledgling org and the NFU is a dying one!!
BFU do NOT claim to represent all uk farmers, a claim all too oft spouted by Battersby!!
- Location
- Northumberland
I’d probably go with:
“Minette, it looks like, in order to maintain my ‘licence to farm’, I will be required to join Red Tractor’s Greener Farming Commitment. I understand that, in order to do that I will have to manufacture Carbon Credits and Biodiversity Net Gain Credits. Will I be allowed to own those assets myself, perhaps selling them at a time of my choosing to the highest bidder or will they automatically be passed along to the supermarkets when I sell my produce?“
Or perhaps the more snappy:
“Minette, is it true that RT’s Greener Farming Commitment will be launched before us farmers get a say in your 2nd review?”
It’s trying to get a foot in the door at the moment.
What’s wrong with aiming high?
- Location
- East Sussex
Nothing wrong with aiming high…… just be realistic. Be aware when your in an echo chamber because no one outside can hear you.
