It's not the great & the good, as always it's money talks loudest!That is incorrect Clive, the position on the Board is not Blenkirons.
Tom has this position as part of his remit holding RT in his portfolio as NFU Deputy President. Stuart Roberts previously held the role. Prior to that Batters held the position and we fought to get her to drop it as it seemed a serious conflict of interest that the President was on RT board. You could argue similar for the other office holders but NFU have so much invested in it that they get a Board slot. Benefit or consequences of that can be argued both ways.
Despite considerable ill feeling by a great many (ordianary) NFU members to RT the great and good refuse to see, acknowledge or change it. What little they are doing is tinkering at the edges.
headage payments went years ago, everyone gets the same now no matter what you farmI know! Made my blood boil all beef and sheep subs and they still moan!
Yes, I did, and I got a quite remarkable picture showing me that both org's are utterly discredited, self-perpetuating and dishonest; which was nice.So NFU Tom gets Blenkirons old job and Blenkinron gets a NFU job
anyone joining the dots here ?
but a small or relatively so acreage Intensive pig farm doesn't and hasn't had much at all .headage payments went years ago, everyone gets the same now no matter what you farm
I’m not a farmer and have never been a NFU member except to access their insurance services discount, so I’m not fighting their corner here.
It seems to me there is always a lot of moaning and slagging off whenever NFU is mentioned on TFF. But nobody seems to be organising any credible alternative, do they?
Surely there has been time, farmers have been putting down the NFU all my life. And surely money can’t be the problem either. There seems to be more people put them down than support them, so a credible alternative would gain members surely?
So why don’t you @Clive and a few others get on and find an opposition to them? The world is full of loudmouths who have all the great ideas but they never seem to implement them. Don’t just be one of them.
Over the years you’ve poked a few wasps nests and made a few extraordinary claims but never with any proof or plan to sort out the problem as you see it.
All hat and no cattle?
I think Tom, Guy, Minette et al start out with good intentions but the devil takes them up into the mountains, shows them the world and offers it to them.The whole thing is utterly hideous.
NFU supporting private company to hamper UK farmers competitive position Vs worldwide production.
You can't sell a seed of oilseed rape in the UK unless you pay what is a modern day tithe to a cult. NFU are showing amply how anti farmer they are, it's not farmers they support but their own circle.
Back British Farming indeed...
I’m not a farmer and have never been a NFU member except to access their insurance services discount, so I’m not fighting their corner here.
It seems to me there is always a lot of moaning and slagging off whenever NFU is mentioned on TFF. But nobody seems to be organising any credible alternative, do they?
Surely there has been time, farmers have been putting down the NFU all my life. And surely money can’t be the problem either. There seems to be more people put them down than support them, so a credible alternative would gain members surely?
So why don’t you @Clive and a few others get on and find an opposition to them? The world is full of loudmouths who have all the great ideas but they never seem to implement them. Don’t just be one of them.
Over the years you’ve poked a few wasps nests and made a few extraordinary claims but never with any proof or plan to sort out the problem as you see it.
All hat and no cattle?
So just do nothing then. That’s the easiest thing, isn’t it?
But if nobody has any intention of doing anything to remedy the situation, why go on about it? You’re not going to change the NFU or RT are you? That’s already been admitted.
If it’s corrupt, set up alternatives. Offer more and better terms. Nobody is going to get hurt, this isn’t 1930s gang warfare corruption so what is there to be worried about?
It seems to me that the arable, specifically combinable crops farmers are most disgruntled. If that group don’t have time over winter to get up and organise an alternative then I’m buggered if I know who does!
To say an organisation is corrupt so can’t be changed is just excuses to my very simple mind. If that’s the case, don’t try and change it, set up something else.
Next thing is you’ll all be saying the customers (supermarkets, processors etc) won’t buy into it. You’ll never know if you don’t try.
The only way he’ll get any credibility from me is if he shuts red tractor down. It’s corrupt. The Nfu is corrupt. The AHDB is corrupt and AIC is corrupt. They’ve been shafting us all for years.Rather ironically, I answered a telephone survey about NFU this morning and left the guy asking the questions in no doubt as to everything that is wrong with the NFU.
As soon as I mention Red Tractor, there was an audible groan him as if to say “On no, not another one”.
However, I do think we ought to give Tom a chance to rectify the wrongs within RT before we pass judgement. There could be a lot worse than him to at least try to do so [before telling them to shove it where the sun don’t shine].
I think Tom, Guy, Minette et al start out with good intentions but the devil takes them up into the mountains, shows them the world and offers it to them.
Or George Eustace offers them a future peerage in return for not upsetting the apple cart, take your pick.