Not sensible to advertise where guns are likely to be kept, but when did being sensible come into it!Except Packham is calling for full transparency.
Every detail of the new licence, address, reason for it , species etc will be available on Public record
Open invitation to the Activists to visit your farm and screw you over, get your guns seized, and no doubt land you in court/jail
They are very very dangerous
Would be ideal info for criminals who want to get hold of guns.Not sensible to advertise where guns are likely to be kept, but when did being sensible come into it!
Is it just me or is the silence from the NFU re the corvid and pigeon control utterly deafening ?
Is there some clever reason for the silence or has no one got into the office or turned on Twitter yet ?
I think you'll find that about the time you were typing this the NFU were putting out their response. You don't your pay your subscription, free riding on those of us who do, but what do you suggest? What will TFF do? Suggest something. Make me laugh!
Could be a case of less is more. Why put it all over social media? To let everyone know that it has been band? or keep your public head down and work behind the scenes with the people that matter?Not being a member dies t exclude me from having a opinion or wondering what they are or in this case are not doing. I don’t believe there is a laws that prevents none members from giving a £&&( ! About issues that effect farmers ?
This is big news and a big issue but frankly I have seen nothing of any substance about it all from them yet on social media or the wider news
This happened yesterday and based on a post early in this thread from a NFU member they had nothing to say at 8.30 this mourning
Good enough ? Not in this day and age ..... and you wonder WHY I’m not a member !
Could be a case of less is more. Why put it all over social media? To let everyone know that it has been band? or keep your public head down and work behind the scenes with the people that matter?
Just a thought.
I notice it doesn’t seem to be on the BBC website, or at least not prominently. Could it just be the the Government don’t want the publicity?
Me neither, but what good would the NFU putting it all over social media do? Just maybe the best they can do is work behind the scenes to try and come up with a workable solution? As an arable farmer I can probably cope with a couple of days not shooting pigeons on my freshly emerged peas until I can apply for a new license , you seem to feel the same about your situation. But ask yourself how would you feel picking lambs up with no eyes each day after the crows have visited and having to put them down? I don’t think I’d be feeling quite so sure how I’d react facing that prospect.I don’t think ignoring what is no law is a good idea and can’t imagine the NFU would suggest that either
You risk 60% of your BPS if you ignore this breaking cross compliance plus whatever fine the law can also on you - not a risk I will be taking !
Except Packham is calling for full transparency.
Every detail of the new licence, address, reason for it , species etc will be available on Public record
Open invitation to the Activists to visit your farm and screw you over, get your guns seized, and no doubt land you in court/jail
They are very very dangerous
Me neither, but what good would the NFU putting it all over social media do? Just maybe the best they can do is work behind the scenes to try and come up with a workable solution? As an arable farmer I can probably cope with a couple of days not shooting pigeons on my freshly emerged peas until I can apply for a new license , you seem to feel the same about your situation. But ask yourself how would you feel picking lambs up with no eyes each day after the crows have visited and having to put them down? I don’t think I’d be feeling quite so sure how I’d react facing that prospect.
But at this precise moment it time I can see that less could be more for the reason stated above. Once a workable solution is in place I can see that the reasons for it will need to be promoted and explained on social media to push back against the likes of Packham.Social media is a MASSIVE influencer of opinion these days like it or not - they need to learn how to use that to their advantage
....... perception matters, how do you think twits like Packham get these things in the public eye and banned in the first place ?