SNP thieving from farmers again

[ladycrofter]

Another ring-fenced £46 million gone from the farming budget, on top of last year's £33 million theft. Unless I'm missing something.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-face-angry-farmers-32011628

 

[jamesy]

The sooner we are rid of this snp/green coalition the better. They have proven themselves to be utterly inept at running our country. All they care about is hanging on to power by hook or by crook. I don’t have much faith in the other parties but this government appears to be rotten to the core

 

[yoki]

Another embarrassment!

Michael Matheson: Scottish health secretary quits over £11k iPad bill

The bill was charged to Mr Matheson's parliamentary device following a family holiday to Morocco.

www.bbc.co.uk

Key dates in the Michael Matheson iPad scandal

Scotland's health secretary has stood down after he made misleading claims about an £11k data bill.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[pgk]

Another ring-fenced £46 million gone from the farming budget, on top of last year's £33 million theft. Unless I'm missing something.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-face-angry-farmers-32011628

I think you will find it is simply a withdrawal of benefits. A cursory glance at various tff threads will show most farmers on here are very much against benefits being dished out to the great unwashed, you are not going to suggest
Farmers should be exempt from cuts

 

[Henarar]

I think you will find it is simply a withdrawal of benefits. A cursory glance at various tff threads will show most farmers on here are very much against benefits being dished out to the great unwashed, you are not going to suggest
Farmers should be exempt from cuts

Perhaps farmers wash ?

 

[ladycrofter]

Just having a think about some of the comments on here. I recently went through some old farm records before shredding.

1995: grass fertiliser £108/ton. Good store lambs 60 quid each.
2023: grass fertiliser £800+/ton. And good store lambs? 60 quid each.

Let's get this straight. it's not the farmers who are on benefits, it's the public with their cheap food.

 

[Charlie Gill]

Just having a think about some of the comments on here. I recently went through some old farm records before shredding.

1995: grass fertiliser £108/ton. Good store lambs 60 quid each.
2023: grass fertiliser £800+/ton. And good store lambs? 60 quid each.

Let's get this straight. it's not the farmers who are on benefits, it's the public with their cheap food.

It's definitely not cheap at the moment.

 

[HAM135]

It's definitely not cheap at the moment.

It is though at farm gate level,even at consumer level food has not kept with inflation.

 

[Charlie Gill]

It is though at farm gate level,even at consumer level food has not kept with inflation.

I'm not a farmer but a much bigger chunk of my cash is going on food at the moment, particularly protein.

 

[jamesy]

As it should! Historically this was the case but over the last decades a smaller & smaller % of peoples wage gets spent on life’s essentials and a far larger % on life’s luxuries. So much so that people have come to view the luxuries as essential & resent paying for boring things like food

 

[Charlie Gill]

As it should! Historically this was the case but over the last decades a smaller & smaller % of peoples wage gets spent on life’s essentials and a far larger % on life’s luxuries. So much so that people have come to view the luxuries as essential & resent paying for boring things like food

Why, do you want volume or a high price? I'm happy paying 10 quid a steak or 20 quid for a piece of lamb but it won't be weekly.

 

[jamesy]

Just a fair price is all we want that reflects the cost of production within the constraints exerted on us.

Currently beef & lamb may be nearing that but I’m sure other sectors are way off