So this is Labours idea? Do we like it? Or not?

Regenerator1

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Arable Farmer
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England
This is the first time we have heard this view..
I was always a Tory but now things have changed..
I dont do Politics but maybe this thread with reference to SFI etc might achieve a comment or like and yes they dont mention money either😊
 

L P

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Arable Farmer
Location
Newbury
This is the first time we have heard this view..
I was always a Tory but now things have changed..
I dont do Politics but maybe this thread with reference to SFI etc might achieve a comment or like and yes they dont mention money either😊
They dont mention farmers either, odd to forget the custodians of the countryside?
 
This is the first time we have heard this view..
I was always a Tory but now things have changed..
I dont do Politics but maybe this thread with reference to SFI etc might achieve a comment or like and yes they dont mention money either😊
Oh dear,do they really understand? What a load of tosh,The water companies have for a long time got away with it,It stands to reason if you keep building more houses,more tarmac/ concrete the water has to go somewhere in a flash flood or like the winter we have had, Farmers are/have been an easy scape goat as we do not have a strong voice to defend ourselves ! i do agree Farmers are guilty of some pollution,but not to the extent of the water companies
 

Regenerator1

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Arable Farmer
Location
England
Oh dear,do they really understand? What a load of tosh,The water companies have for a long time got away with it,It stands to reason if you keep building more houses,more tarmac/ concrete the water has to go somewhere in a flash flood or like the winter we have had, Farmers are/have been an easy scape goat as we do not have a strong voice to defend ourselves ! i do agree Farmers are guilty of some pollution,but not to the extent of the water companies
Totally agree because we didnt get paid to build houses.. and those that did are not us...
These people regardless of their party need to learn??
 

robs1

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As has been said not one word about those who farm the countryside and made it what it is, they want to accelerate the change to electric vehicles when sales are stalling because people don't want them, do they really believe they can, as they say attract private sector money to solve the sewage problem, that private money will need a guaranteed return, remember the PFI deals they did last time for schools and hospitals, the costs were and still are a huge drain on public finances.
All written by a London MP, doubt he knows F all about the subject
 
I little drop of socialism as opposed to disastrous capitalism would not go amiss. IMP this is better than nationalism that’s creeping up on us🥲
SS
Be carefull for what you wish for and remember what politicians promise and what they actually do are two completely different things.
That said our last Labour government here was a total fúck up, politically, ,economically, socially and environmentally.
 

Regenerator1

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Arable Farmer
Location
England
Be carefull for what you wish for and remember what politicians promise and what they actually do are two completely different things.
That said our last Labour government here was a total fúck up, politically, ,economically, socially and environmentally.
Yeah but you are on the other side of the planet in NZ!!
 
Be carefull for what you wish for and remember what politicians promise and what they actually do are two completely different things.
That said our last Labour government here was a total fúck up, politically, ,economically, socially and environmentally.
NO Doubt Sir Starmer and his chums will be no different REMEMBER VOTE MUPPET as you will get one anyway !!
 

gloria1

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"communities will get a voice in safeguarding nature in their area"
More interference,more regulation, more busybodies telling you what to do,more loss of control on what you own.
Keir Starmer is already committed to build on green belt and bring in compulsory purchase of strategic building land at agricultural prices,not house building land prices.
you aint seen nothing yet!
 

Regenerator1

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Arable Farmer
Location
England
The nanny state really do want to control our farms dont they? It stifles innovation.. so near to an election i get the impression that neither of the main parties are interested in Agriculture and neither seem to have a manifesto to support our sector.. State farm collectives run by contractors is certainly the trend..
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Why do they always feel the need to stick their noses into private businesses they know nothing about? They are busy writing rules and manuals as we speak as to what constitutes direct drilling. It’s wholly unnecessary. It’s nonsense. And there’s no difference between any of them as it seems to be the civil service that runs the show.
If these folk think they can do a better job then why not buy a farm and have a go instead of backseat driving us off the road.
It’s partly our own industry’s fault for looking to civil service to bail us out and fix every problem. Let’s just get on and leave them to their armchair and desk bound theorising.
 

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