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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 7874541" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>Absolutely spot on!</p><p></p><p>The Voluntary Initiative was invented to try to persuade Gordon Brown, the then Chancellor not to introduce a Pesticide Tax, because he had hinted that he might do so.</p><p>The NRoSO bit of it was written by the NFU’s then Pesticides Officer and an influential member of Suffolk NFU, in his farm office over a weekend.</p><p></p><p>As usual with regard anything to do with NFU, it included every scenario going way beyond what Gordon Brown and the then Secretary of State for MAFF/Defra, Margaret Becket wanted.</p><p></p><p>Obviously the VI didn’t attract much attention to start with, though Margaret Becket was particularly interested in removing Grandfather’s rights as regards Sprayer operators.</p><p></p><p>It was actually her that wanted NRoSO specifically for this very reason and it was written before VI to appease her views being: “Does the NFU realise that there are thousand of farmers and farm workers spraying poisonous herbicides on farms without any qualifications to do so?”</p><p>But the VI then hijacked NRoSO for their own purpose!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Then we all got conned into the Assured Combinable Crops Scheme (ACCS), who immediately made NRoSO mandatory to all of its farmer customers !</p><p></p><p>VOLUNTARY implies choice, NOT COMPULSION .</p><p></p><p>Yet the dear old NFU went along with it!</p><p></p><p>So pee’d off was its Pesticides Officer, that he resigned and went to work as safety Officer for the NFB (National Federation of Builders).</p><p></p><p>So pee’d off was I, that we resigned from the NFU at the same time!</p><p></p><p></p><p>PS. There may have been an advantage insofar as the ACCS sub was less that the NFU’s sub.</p><p>They caused it, so they deserved to lose theirs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 7874541, member: 44728"] Absolutely spot on! The Voluntary Initiative was invented to try to persuade Gordon Brown, the then Chancellor not to introduce a Pesticide Tax, because he had hinted that he might do so. The NRoSO bit of it was written by the NFU’s then Pesticides Officer and an influential member of Suffolk NFU, in his farm office over a weekend. As usual with regard anything to do with NFU, it included every scenario going way beyond what Gordon Brown and the then Secretary of State for MAFF/Defra, Margaret Becket wanted. Obviously the VI didn’t attract much attention to start with, though Margaret Becket was particularly interested in removing Grandfather’s rights as regards Sprayer operators. It was actually her that wanted NRoSO specifically for this very reason and it was written before VI to appease her views being: “Does the NFU realise that there are thousand of farmers and farm workers spraying poisonous herbicides on farms without any qualifications to do so?” But the VI then hijacked NRoSO for their own purpose! Then we all got conned into the Assured Combinable Crops Scheme (ACCS), who immediately made NRoSO mandatory to all of its farmer customers ! VOLUNTARY implies choice, NOT COMPULSION . Yet the dear old NFU went along with it! So pee’d off was its Pesticides Officer, that he resigned and went to work as safety Officer for the NFB (National Federation of Builders). So pee’d off was I, that we resigned from the NFU at the same time! PS. There may have been an advantage insofar as the ACCS sub was less that the NFU’s sub. They caused it, so they deserved to lose theirs. [/QUOTE]
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