NFU Leader Retires

[Bobby Spray]

The NFU just needs balance. Most of us here are old and set in our ways. The young can bring new ideas in - specially if they know what's happening out and about.

I'm not saying only under 30s should be on all the boards, just balance, tempered with experience. That means an age mix not more of the same.

Before any of that happens you first have to accept that the NFU is not a union. Its an influencing organisation. No union that I have ever dealt with (40 years in heavy industry) has ever worked for anyone but their members. You certainly can't say that of the NFU. And maybe new blood from outside of farmers is required. It would certainly provide a different perspective.

 

[SilliamWhale]

History will remember her "leadership" little like it does Tony Blair IMO ............. not exactly fondly and keen for a trail in the Hague !

So much damge done to the NFU and UK agriculture by one individual


I wonder what supermarket, processor, political or regulatory / governance role she will appear in next ? - despite the bullpoo "i'm retiring to my farm". rubbish she has a couple hundred K hole in the personal finances every year o fill that a few beef cattle certainly won't ........... she will be back i'm sure

And its not the cost of Red Tractor and all its attendent bulls**t, its the power that is has handed to a coterie of groups or "leaders" which are acting out of their own self interest or that of their corporation.

The market should not be allowed to be controlled like this. The BRC are now getting a step closer to controlling the food markets and the NFU who own Red Tractor (and the NFU President is on the board of directors) are assisting this.

 

[Bald Rick]

Sorry, no dig intended - tough job being an mod/umpire at times.
May we call you Mr Hoyle from now on?

Isn't he about to get the bullet?

 

[Charles.]

sorry to be nieve but what is wef?

World Economic Forum. Klaus Schwab is the leader and says we will eat the bugs and you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

 

[Hilly]

sorry to be nieve but what is wef?

World economic forum , look it up and read there ideas .

 

[Hilly]

World Economic Forum. Klaus Schwab is the leader and says we will eat the bugs and you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

I bet him and his cronies are intending owning alot more than nothing though !

 

[thorpe]

World economic forum , look it up and read there ideas .

thank you i know now, we have that many acronyms i can't keep up

 

[Whitepeak]

The NFU just needs balance. Most of us here are old and set in our ways. The young can bring new ideas in - specially if they know what's happening out and about.

I'm not saying only under 30s should be on all the boards, just balance, tempered with experience. That means an age mix not more of the same.

I agree. Just seen a pic of the new top table, doesn't do the average age of farmers image many favours

 

[Hilly]

thank you i know now, we have that many acronyms i can't keep up

Yes i hate Acronyms they can be confusing .

 

[thorpe]

Yes i hate Acronyms they can be confusing .

yea like brc when i was a kid that was the british rabbit council

 

[Hilly]

yea like brc when i was a kid that was the british rabbit council

Really ? What did they do ?

 

[Vader]

World economic forum , look it up and read there ideas .

all you need to know about the WEF..
When this twit is involved...

https://www.weforum.org/organizations/tony-blair-institute-for-global-change/

 

[thorpe]

Really ? What did they do ?

i think they set the breed standards and handed out show certificates

 

[neilo]

The NFU just needs balance. Most of us here are old and set in our ways. The young can bring new ideas in - specially if they know what's happening out and about.

I'm not saying only under 30s should be on all the boards, just balance, tempered with experience. That means an age mix not more of the same.

Most of the young 'uns I meet round here don't have any great issue with RT, and seem happy to embrace carbon auditing.

I doubt that encouraging them to the top table will quell the TFF protesters.

 

[stroller]

I’m not as frequent a user of TFF in recent months and this thread is exactly why.
The comments on here are absolutely vile and imho looses any credibility that the TFF family has as a voice for agriculture in the UK and wider.
I know not everyone will agree and be happy with NFU and her but to have to those things posted on an online, free access to all forum is just not o.

The nfu hierarchy need to ask themselves what drives people to express their anger in this way, maybe if they listen to us ordinary peasants a bit more we wouldn't get so angry.

 

[Henarar]

Most of the young 'uns I meet round here don't have any great issue with RT, and seem happy to embrace carbon auditing.

I doubt that encouraging them to the top table will quell the TFF protesters.

Good

 

[Bobby Spray]

The nfu hierarchy need to ask themselves what drives people to express their anger in this way, maybe if they listen to us ordinary peasants a bit more we wouldn't get so angry.

The only thing that they will listen to is mass resignation of members. Even then their finances will remain ok due to support from their sponsors such as RT and the BRC. Until another organisation has more members than the NFU (maybe the BFU) then they will claim to have the right to speak for all UK AG. So in summary they won't listen at all.

 

[Kidds]

She doesn't represent me or my farm. No one who wears WEF great reset bage can ever do so.

I don't know who to believe these days and I think that is the whole idea. I wasn't convinced your picture was genuine and that shows my level of not accepting everything I see/read. There are plenty of pics and videos of her wearing it out there so it is seemingly genuine.
I did find this on the matter but where is the truth?

No, this colorful badge doesn’t indicate membership to the New World Order

observers.france24.com

 

[devonbeef]

Evil exists not only through murderers and the like. For Batters to cause a continual decline in farmers income and increasing amounts of work over the years via RT, causing inexcusable suffering to her fellow human, some commmiting suicide, while others leaving the job they loved, while Batters follows the likes of BRC money as evidenced on this forum amounts to evil for me. Not to mention Batters intentional refusal to stop UFAS millers import non assured grain and yet UK farmers forced against their will to join assurance scheme so they could access their own markets. Even some of the livestock farmers have been forced against their will to be assured while cheap non assured imports are allowed in.

Emotions are high , and stuff is said which sometimes is to strong, bur let there be no mistake, the lady in question has done immense damage to British Agri , she is heavily involved with the BRC , who are out to fleece farmers as much as they can get away with.She is heavily involved with a assurance scheme which is controlling us in every way. See dairy thread the treatment of a member regarding a on the spot inspection ,when a partner of farmers was seriously ill in hospital and the brutal way they dealt with the farmer. She has promoted a net zero which is frankly impossible for us all to achieve. Most important of all , the words she spoke and influenced has to be remembered effects peoples livelihoods and family whether they support her organisation or not. I feel very angry towards what she has done in her term, as do many others, So maybe describing her legacy and term of office should not be too sugar coated.

 

[egbert]

Undoubtedly farming is in a worse state than when she took the job on.

NFU appears to be losing members rapidly, however, I suspect their finances are probably improved because of large membership fees from their corporate members.

Will be interesting if Tom Bradshaw is able to change anything.

He won't try...he seems to be quite indoctrinated already.

As for the outgoing pres?
We've only approached her once directly - about the new eid /new numbering system for cattle
(and what an unholy fudge up it is)
Mrs Egbert was put in front of her, and she dismissed our concerns out of hand. Arrogant and disrespectful, with no grasp -not the faintest- what it is actually like on a rain sodden hill farm.
The lack of understanding is forgivable, the arrogance was not.

It boils my wee that 'we' elected a pres based largely on gender....what a nonsense, and a pathetic reflection on the organisation.
Even that her association with that Greed lady was a good thing!!!!!!! Yuk. double yuk.

Our prospects have sunk dismally- where I'm sitting- since her tenure, with gov still clinging to the anti-food agenda at the expense of production.
And her valedictory tour of goodbyes sickens me.
The ongoing RT fiasco and apparent attendant slump in numbers is indicative of how wrong it's going.
Never forget she was involved in RT all along.

She has not been the NFU's finest hour.



PS. I notice I co-indecently lost a gig with the firm the moment she took office........shortly after backing Guy's run on this forum.