What?! Look at all those Welsh. Surely that's ethnic minority enough.Yes, that seems to be a majority requirement , no Female's either, or those from ethnic minority.
TFF Grass Roots Group
- Thread starter neilo
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Yes i guess and one from the Colonies'
matthew
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- Cornwall, SW England
Why use @Clive’s site name? Why not just ‘Grassroots’? Did they ask permission of the site’s owner, who appears ultra protective of his baby.
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- Newcastle upon Tyne
No Northerners or Scots either!!!!
Is Derbyshire & Yorkshire not up North
Well, well, well..................
No disrespect to @Kiwi Pete , but why is a NZ chap giving representation to a committee that’ll help decide our future farming strategy . He might say, re wild the lot and buy it all from NZ.
Below Penrith……nowhere near the real northIs Derbyshire & Yorkshire not up North
Senior people within Defra spend a good deal of time reading TFF; a thoroughly good thing. Whatever ELMS ends up looking like, we can safely say that its design will have been as democratic as any previous agricultural policy due to the ability of individual farmers to have input via this medium.
Re this group, yes they've probably been a tad naive in the name, but I suspect that that's all it is, naivety rather than any attempt to claim representation.
I wouldn't see it as any different from when Clive organizes a question time; the questions will come from TFF members and may well appear in some Defra write up as being 'TFF questions', but no-one would pretend that the questions are representative of all of the members.
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- South Molton
No disrespect to @Kiwi Pete , but why is a NZ chap giving representation to a committee that’ll help decide our future farming strategy . He might say, re wild the lot and buy it all from NZ.
Why are any of them " representing " TFF
By saying he's from Owaka they're obviously in touch with Indigenous knowledge which is all anyone needs today.No disrespect to @Kiwi Pete , but why is a NZ chap giving representation to a committee that’ll help decide our future farming strategy . He might say, re wild the lot and buy it all from NZ.
Honestly, it could probably be blamed on the journalist as well. Anyone who's ever been interviewed knows how ridiculous they interpret stuff sometimes.
Someone saying "We're a grassroots group who met on TFF" is equally as likely to have happened and the journalist then named them the TFF Grassroots Group.
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- Newcastle upon Tyne
Hell, they are almost French!!!! Have to get our passports stamped t go there!!!Is Derbyshire & Yorkshire not up North
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- South Molton
I quote "We are aware that TFF have applied for Round 2 of the “Future Farming Resilience Fund- Interim Phase project_32224” but are struggling to gain full DEFRA engagement"
Sound's like the film Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise where he shouts down the phone, "show me the money"
Sound's like the film Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise where he shouts down the phone, "show me the money"
Nearly Scandinavian to meHell, they are almost French!!!! Have to get our passports stamped t go there!!!
I bet @Derrick Hughes is a bit disappointed he’s not involved with a grass/ roots club
To be fair your English is very good………… ( he says slowly and loudly)Nearly Scandinavian to me
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Potentially more representative of farmer views than the NFU
The only farmers we've ever claimed to represent are ourselves, certainly not the whole of TFF. Our evidence to the EFRA Committee made that very clear. We felt we weren't being represented by the organisations paid to do so though.
It's been a lot of work but anyone else can do the same if they feel unrepresented. That's the power of social media (which TFF is, by the way).
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- Welshpool Powys
He needs to be involved with a club
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