The Ant and the Grasshopper

Walterp

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Location
Pembrokeshire
A sense of responsibility is the curse of many an eldest child - parents or siblings can frolic and get up to mischief, but the eldest child will ponder and fret about the sensible thing to do. And then do it, sometimes at great expense and personal sacrifice.

I don't know why they do this. Perhaps precisely because the others are, well, so irresponsible?

Back in the day, the ant beavered away whilst the grasshopper idled away the Summer; my upbringing taught me that the grasshopper was held to account for his shortcomings - come Winter, he went hungry.

Apt imagery, perhaps, for a professional adviser - get the advice right, do your utmost, and come clean if you get it wrong, to minimise the collateral damage. The ideals of the ant.

But what about the pleasure-seeking grasshoppers? I hear you wonder.

The President of the NFU, Minette Batters, campaigned vociferously in 2016 for 'leave' and claimed, at frequent intervals, that UK farmers would be able to 'exploit the opportunities of Brexit'.

It was utter xxxxx, of course, and she probably knew it. Now that it is clear there are no such opportunities, why does no NFU member seek to hold her to account for her error?

Or do we get the farming leaders we deserve?
 
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Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
A leader was elected to preside over a fudge up, hopefully we’ll get a leader with a better voice to pick up the pieces later.

Not sure but my take is the OP is asking and looking forward to Ms Batters setting out maybe in a speech or a paper if she prefer some of those opportunities that UK Agriculture can shortly look forward to exploiting. This links in with the other ongoing thread started by Runny Egg. Regards.
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
I was joining the op in his rather pessimistic attitude and suggesting that none of our leaders are able to pin down opportunities because their peers are also struggling with the same thing. I view our current government and industry leaders as stand ins to take the hit when it goes wrong or not as people wanted. It’s only when the result finally dawns on us what we’ve ended up with before anyone will do something and try and sort it, they will of course blame the previous group for the issues. No serious person is going to try and fight the rubbish that’s going on at the moment as it’s career suicide.
 

newjames

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Youre an idiot walter, always more oppotunities when things are difficult than when things are rosey. When things are tough the tough get going and get in when things aew cheap when its all easy folks jump in at high prices and often lose money, look at history as you claim you do and show sone examples of people making money from getting into anything ib a boom tine. You just wabt to carry on in your easy life style, move over and let someone with drive do a better job
 

Muck Spreader

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin
Minette Batters did go on at the time about not allowing foreign firms to be able to tender for public sector contracts post Brexit. Like to see her float that one past Trump.:D
 

will l

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Arable Farmer
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-deal-brexit-national-farmers-union?CMP=fb_gu
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