Mass Trespass?

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southwest
The trouble is that the tactics used by XR and other militant groups are, by their very nature, designed to create conflict and ergo, will never resolve the issues these groups claim to want resolved.

But they don't want the issues resolved, they (like football hooligans years ago) are just attaching themselves to something as an excuse to cause disruption.
 

MRT

Member
Livestock Farmer
The trouble is that the tactics used by XR and other militant groups are, by their very nature, designed to create conflict and ergo, will never resolve the issues these groups claim to want resolved.

But they don't want the issues resolved, they (like football hooligans years ago) are just attaching themselves to something as an excuse to cause disruption.
I asked XR recently why they did not support the ammendments to the agri bill as it could have directly infuluenced how food is produced at home and abroad. Interstingly they say because they are not interested in change by influencing policy and do not even propose solutions.
 
Location
southwest
I asked XR recently why they did not support the ammendments to the agri bill as it could have directly infuluenced how food is produced at home and abroad. Interstingly they say because they are not interested in change by influencing policy and do not even propose solutions.

Do they chant "What do we Want? We don't know"

Presumably they will carry on protesting for ever as they will not know when their aims have been met?
 
Is that the biggest landowner in Dorset whose family wealth came from the slave trade Drax?
I have several friends who are employees of the estate and it seems generally well run and a reasonable place to work. I have heard of far worse places to work, including smaller farms. The local environment seems well managed too, at least better than it would be if the anarchists were running the show. My only connection otherwise is that my family were long term tenants in the 19th century and were given work in the hungry '40s building the infamous wall around the park. In normal times, we take part in the estate quizzes which raise funds for the various churches in the area. Having seen last year what the public can do to the beautiful Dorset landscape when let loose, I'm glad there are plenty of corners that are out of bounds. Behind so much of the current activism is facebook envy and covetousness.
 
thought they stopped that years ago
East Dorset was given a special exemption under the Treaty of Utrecht, at least that's what Mrs Fred tells me. :rolleyes:
I don't think it is a secret that they have plantations in the Caribbean. as far as I know they are employing lots of alive and well 21st century folks out there too. Life as a worker in Dorset pre 1830 wasn't exactly a bed of roses but there is no point in victimising ourselves on behalf of ancestors we never knew we had until Ancestry came along.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Is that the biggest landowner in Dorset whose family wealth came from the slave trade Drax?
No, that's Hugo Drax what pinched our moonraker when one of his own developed problems. World domination is never easy......

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Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
My Farmwatch WhatsApp group is pinging away with XR alerts of masked Crusties everywhere. Apparently the Mass Trespass was postponed until today?
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 76 43.7%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 35.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 27 15.5%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 3 1.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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