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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 9052612" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>I am going to hazard a guess here, but I would be willing to suggest that the NFU is staffed by people who either:</p><p></p><p>1. Quite like being important and that's a nice salary and pension thanks, can I have a go in slot X next please, oh chair of the AIC, wowsers, yes please?</p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p>2. Are living in UK agriculture PLC only the 1950's version.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Many years ago, I a telephone conversation with one farmer who I did not really know but somehow we got on to the subject of the NFU as it was around the time of the milk protests and farmers were blockading the factories at Bridgewater, etc. I will never forget the absolute acidity in his voice when he said: 'Mr <em>X is our county NFU chairman, anyone who knows his farm would tell you it is a complete fudge-hole</em>*'. To this day those words ring in my mind. If that is the truth of it, then what hope have ordinary grass roots farmers got? If you've got careerists at the helm they are hardly going to be too motivated to rock any boat and surely, any serious farmer would never have the time to fudge about playing musical chairs?</p><p></p><p>*paraphrased for reasons of civility and palatability.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 9052612, member: 54866"] I am going to hazard a guess here, but I would be willing to suggest that the NFU is staffed by people who either: 1. Quite like being important and that's a nice salary and pension thanks, can I have a go in slot X next please, oh chair of the AIC, wowsers, yes please? or 2. Are living in UK agriculture PLC only the 1950's version. Many years ago, I a telephone conversation with one farmer who I did not really know but somehow we got on to the subject of the NFU as it was around the time of the milk protests and farmers were blockading the factories at Bridgewater, etc. I will never forget the absolute acidity in his voice when he said: 'Mr [I]X is our county NFU chairman, anyone who knows his farm would tell you it is a complete fudge-hole[/I]*'. To this day those words ring in my mind. If that is the truth of it, then what hope have ordinary grass roots farmers got? If you've got careerists at the helm they are hardly going to be too motivated to rock any boat and surely, any serious farmer would never have the time to fudge about playing musical chairs? *paraphrased for reasons of civility and palatability. [/QUOTE]
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