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Bald Rick

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Anglesey
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted

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Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)? And this from a supposedly Tory rag .

And I wonder why I am getting increasingly angry as each day passes.
 

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted

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Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)? And this from a supposedly Tory rag .

And I wonder why I am getting increasingly angry as each day passes.
Just a thought, who funds that journo’s wages and the Times? :rolleyes:
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
I find my mental well-being to be much improved since I told The Times where to put their "unavoidable subscriptions increase"
For its undeniable faults, you can get all the headline news for free from The Guardian App, and to be fair to them, they really are not any more anti farming than The Murdoch or the Barclaygraph environmental narratives. And you do not have to read Mr Monbiot if you don't want to.
 
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Macsky

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted

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Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)? And this from a supposedly Tory rag .

And I wonder why I am getting increasingly angry as each day passes.
Best form of defence is attack. They see what’s happening elsewhere in Europe and are just trying to dampen public support with some preemptive stikes. Expect much more I would say.
 

fudge

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire.
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted

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Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)? And this from a supposedly Tory rag .

And I wonder why I am getting increasingly angry as each day passes.
It’s the Murdoch press telling lies. What a surprise.
 

Widgetone

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Trade
Location
Westish Suffolk
Unfortunately that does sum up the public perception of farmers.
If a desperate PM appears at a farming conference once every other decade, the spotlight will be on farming, hence the Times piece. Also after the recent pics of tractors trundling around Dover and in the EU.

If anything I was surprised the average payout is only £3k pa. The arable estates over here would regard that as a weekly payment!
 

fudge

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire.
Unfortunately that does sum up the public perception of farmers.
If a desperate PM appears at a farming conference once every other decade, the spotlight will be on farming, hence the Times piece. Also after the recent pics of tractors trundling around Dover and in the EU.

If anything I was surprised the average payout is only £3k pa. The arable estates over here would regard that as a weekly payment!
Yeah but the statistics they use regarding the level of pollution from agriculture are dubious in the extreme. For example the published UK emissions don’t include air travel or any military emissions. Furthermore they don’t count emissions produced in other territories in the production of goods and services for UK consumers. Of course the Times doesn’t point out exporting food production won’t reduce the impact on the global environment. It appears to me that having lost the support of many farmers the Tory party will regard farmers as fair game in their “culture wars”. What farmers are doing is legitimately questioning the direction and dishonesty of government policy. The extra few quid Sunak presented yesterday doesn’t devalue their arguments or take away their right to express themselves.
 

robs1

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Perhaps we should say, so you don't like the alleged pollution from growing food well , we won't produce anything then, enjoy the queues at your local supermarket when there is no food to buy and the price that it will rise to, get back to us when you see the truth
 

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted

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Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)? And this from a supposedly Tory rag .

And I wonder why I am getting increasingly angry as each day passes.
None of us farmers really want to bugger about doing it because all we want to do is farm , BUT until we all decide to stop selling for one week and show the country what empty shelves look like we will have to put up with this kind of shite. One week of not a single farmer selling anything would do more than any other protests put together. Sell it to the nation as farmers having a week off, its in our power and would work wonders. Make sure we do not send twice as much the week after too. We need to fcking wake up especially with drakeford taking the pee out of us .
 

Macsky

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted

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Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)? And this from a supposedly Tory rag .

And I wonder why I am getting increasingly angry as each day passes.
That article is something else really, downright treacherous lies. Do you know what’s gone very quiet? Test and Trace - £37billion of public money spaffed into thin air! Mental
 

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