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that's the point, guv is fecked if the corps cannot supply the food.I can't disagree with the first part.
1. The Corps are self-serving
2. The Gov are self-serving and have shirked their duty to their citizens by passing it to the self-serving Corps extracting profits from us, their customers.
3. The NFU is silent on this so obviously supports this burgeoning Corporat-ocracy.
But then you say the Gov gets fecked if there's no corporate provision of food?
The Gov believes it's done it's job which is to do nothing except seen to be listening to all sides. It won't be fecked. It's the poor suburbanites who will be fecked. That's where the trouble will be. And they'll riot against it.
If there was a food supply crisis like the 2008 financial crisis, you can't just chuck money at it to solve it. It takes time and farmers aren't getting any younger.
The Gov has already said that's not its business. It's business is establishing a greenwashing market.
My point is Gov is not here to save farming. What it is here for is unclear. I'll wait for someone to tell me!
there is no back up plan, no food reserves, nothing. The policy of relying on a group of money grasping, self serving barstewards, will kick them in the nuts, hard.
if there is not enough food, or that food is to expensive, for the consumer, to buy/have, utter mayhem will follow.
this is why people are saying about food security, very correctly, guv's headline position, hands off approach, nothing to do with us, is wrong for the country. But, its great for farmers.
so the guv has fecked it up, they cannot supply affordable food to the country, what happens ?
its ok for guv to say, we didn't cause this, excuses etc. But it is the guv who have to pick up the pieces, there's the simple problem remaining, the country has to be fed, no ifs or buts.
hopefully they see the problem, before it reaches desperation point, but politicians are not noticeable for acting quickly, especially if it looks like they will shoulder the blame.
whatever happens, the policy of 'cheap food', is over, there just isn't enough profit in producing it, l don't think they can import enough cheap food, to cover the short fall, of lower home production, and if foreign sources of food, realise that we have to buy, price will go up, just normal trading actions.
l don't have a clue where farming will be, in 5 years time, and not sure anyone else does, it all depends on events abroad, which are entirely out of our guv's control, and the world is becoming more unstable by the day.
what we can be certain of, is the population has to eat, every day, and that won't change.
its how this guv, and the next one, handle rapid food inflation, that matters.
all in all, positives for farming.
