Gove's replacement Theresa Villiers

[Clive]

During the live environment questions on now she is saying all the right things and seems to have a balanced view. She has already spoken about promoting our high farming standards here and abroad , clearer food labelling etc etc. Quite happy to give her a chance and its upto the nfu to brief her with a balanced view on what farmers need to give us all a fair chance

I doubt she's going to be listening the the NFU

but I agree she's saying saying a lot of the right stuff and seems balanced

 

[vantage]

She's there for her looks, distract the yokels and they'll forget about difficult questions.

was spec savers shut then

No,he’s got his beer goggles on!

 

[Clive]

Climate Change . It's a vote winner , vote loser for farmers ,
A straw burner in Cotswolds . . Good God

farmers are voters, environment and climate is a big vote winner for me and it should be for all of us. In fact it should be more important to use than most

 

[GeorgeK]

What about Gove's numerous pledges like not lowering import standards, are they all worthless now?

 

[Robert K]

Well I have been a bit down lately and now have shingles, so am finding it all some light relief. at least I can rely on TFF to supply some wit as we sink or swim, every one to the life rafts, good luck.

Hope you feel better soon

 

[Bald Rick]

Just another marker for all you Johnson fanboys out there ....

You may have noted that "animal welfare" was mentioned in his speech outside No10 yesterday. Bit odd .... until you realise that Mr Spaff's girlfriend is an ardent animal rights campaigner (and anti pollution esp plastics) . So expect Ms Villiers to ramp up even more measures as a result of pillow talk.

 

[Bob]

She’s not too shabby

 

[JP1]

What about Gove's numerous pledges like not lowering import standards, are they all worthless now?

About as valid as those of any of the other's. Fox got buried but I bet what he signed under the table still has time to emerge

 

[roscoe erf]

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you've spent too much time with your sheep

 

[milkloss]

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I think you’d need to check for any extra equipment before you made any advances

 

[Widgetone]

stop all this sexist stuff gents, give the new refreshed site a bad name

Its good to have a Theresa in charge, just like before

 

[Wooly]

I never understood this live animal export ban when a trip from here to Scotland would be longer than to France and a trip from NI would be longer by sea
it seems some folk have a problem with animals being in a boat, do they get sea sick,

Couldn't agree more.

This area of the UK, the abattoirs in Northern France, Belgium and Holland are closer than the abattoirs that our animals go to in Dorset, Wales and Cornwall........... but there is a 22 mile boat trip, which the loonies don't like !

In fact they 'protested' to P and O ferries so much that they decided not to take them on their state of the art ferries from Dover. Instead these animals have to go from Ramsgate in a less than ideal ferry, which is a longer ferry crossing. The good intentioned loonies made it worse for the animals !!

To be fair she's better looking than Margaret Beckett

Can you think of anyone not so good looking........even after a night on the falling over juice !!

During the live environment questions on now she is saying all the right things and seems to have a balanced view. She has already spoken about promoting our high farming standards here and abroad , clearer food labelling etc etc. Quite happy to give her a chance and its upto the nfu to brief her with a balanced view on what farmers need to give us all a fair chance

Blah, blah, blah........ heard it all before.

 

[milkloss]

I doubt she's going to be listening the the NFU

When it comes to forging a long term plan for ag does anyone listen to them? Would be nice if someone actually spelled out what direction our government is sending us, agriculture is a long term business and needs long term thinking.

 

[Nithsdale]

When it comes to forging a long term plan for ag does anyone listen to them? Would be nice if someone actually spelled out what direction our government is sending us, agriculture is a long term business and needs long term thinking.

But politics is short term... In today and gone tomorrow, currently

 

[2wheels]

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should have gone to specsavers

 

[PSQ]

She’s not too shabby

One word that describes both Farming 'under' Borris, and Bob:

desperate
ADJECTIVE

• 1Feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
  ‘a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth’
  More example sentences
  Synonyms
  1. 1.1(of an act) tried in despair or when everything else has failed.
     
     
     
     
  2. predicative (of a person) having a great need or desire for something.
     ‘I am desperate for a cigarette’
     with infinitive ‘other women are desperate to get back to work’

 

[milkloss]

But politics is short term... In today and gone tomorrow, currently

That’s the point: No one has told them to any effect that’s not good enough. All this excitement about climate change and long term targets etc and they haven’t thought for a minute that ag works on similar timescales? Not just the 3years it takes to produce a fat bullock but tree planting, soil conditioning etc which is decades.

 

[Nithsdale]

That’s the point: No one has told them to any effect that’s not good enough. All this excitement about climate change and long term targets etc and they haven’t thought for a minute that ag works on similar timescales? Not just the 3years it takes to produce a fat bullock but tree planting, soil conditioning etc which is decades.

I know you're point, but my point is politicians are not around long enough to give a damn about anything beyond the end of their term.

Nobody does anything anymore for the long term. Society in general has became short sighted... long term planning for farming, the environment, economy and keeping the country going steady are all alien principles to the Western World currently

 

[Chris F]

You can watch the section on parliment TV below - starts about 9:50