NFU hustings

[Clive]

Didn’t a lot of people pay their £4 to get Corbyn as leader just for sh1ts and giggles?

However he got there I’m glad he is despite not agreeing with a word the man has ever said opposition is important

 

[S J H]

I wouldn’t disagree with that, I would be equally concerned if the only people he listened to were the NFU right now though

I'd be a lot more concerned if he didn't.

 

[neilo]

TFF is as representative as you'll get....same as I would suggest FW readers should be.

My point was more that just because they have a vote, it doesn't mean they'll have enough knowledge to use it wisely.

Hell, I have the choice to go out and buy whatever I want......but a lot of the time I'll come onto TFF, seek the knowledge of those more experienced in such matters and take their advice to use in my decision making.

I don't trust them 100%
Nor do I plump for something I have little or no knowledge of.

I'm not arguing for one system or another....merely saying that just because people have freedom to vote, it doesn't mean they'll make the right decision.

I would suggest that TFF would be far more representative of UK Ag than anything FW could come up with. FW have been slowly alienating livestock farmers, and those in the North and West of the UK, for several decades imo, losing massive amounts of market share to FG.
That said, there are also a hell of a lot of farmers that don’t choose to sit posting drivel on a computer every night, who aren’t represented by any online medium.

 

[yellow belly]

I wouldn’t disagree with that, I would be equally concerned if the only people he listened to were the NFU right now though

The 1947 agriculture act was largely influenced by the nfu at the time and farming was prosperous for a generation or more
Labour and margerate becket would not listen to the nfu and look what a mess they made as no organisation knows farming better

 

[Clive]

The 1947 agriculture act was largely influenced by the nfu at the time and farming was prosperous for a generation or more
Labour and margerate becket would not listen to the nfu and look what a mess they made as no organisation knows farming better

We live in VERY different times

 

[yellow belly]

We live in VERY different times

That is why the youngsters joining farming now say we need the
Nfu more than at any time in the last 70 years
I am sure that who leads the nfu after the agm will do as good as job as any one

 

[Sid]

That is why the youngsters joining farming now say we need the
Nfu more than at any time in the last 70 years
I am sure that who leads the nfu after the agm will do as good as job as any one

I want to involve every age group in the NFU in anyway i can.
Socially and on the business side agriculture needs to be joined up in its thinking with voice of new ideas and those of reason and expertise.