Tiverton and Honiton by-election

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
If you try to turn your party into Lib Dem lite, then don’t be surprised when people vote for the real thing.
I can’t think of anything Conservative about the present Conservative Party:
Princess Nut Nuts and the Goldsmith brothers sacrificing agriculture to the wilderness, and even more bureaucracy, Rishi spending more than Labour ever did.
They are right off course and never listen to their core voters. They deserve everything that comes to them.
Jeremy Hunt would be my choice.
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I’ll bet there are 211 Tory MPs that are feeling right pillocks this morning, Johnson will decimate the Tory party & if they don’t dump the idiot they will be thrashed at the next election, not because Tory voters will vote Labour or Liberal but simply because they will choose not to vote at all out of embarrassment!

It looks like that happened yesterday, as it did in North Shropshire. Turnout in Tiverton was only just over 50% and Wakefield just 39%.
Lots clearly didn’t bother, despite the encouragement to vote as a protest.
 
If you try to turn your party into Lib Dem lite, then don’t be surprised when people vote for the real thing.
I can’t think of anything Conservative about the present Conservative Party:
Princess Nut Nuts and the Goldsmith brothers sacrificing agriculture to the wilderness, and even more bureaucracy, Rishi spending more than Labour ever did.
They are right off course and never listen to their core voters. They deserve everything that comes to them.
Jeremy Hunt would be my choice.
Dunno about Lib Dem lite, more like trying to outflank the Green Party I’d have said.
The Lib Dem’s would appear to be farmers best option by far in current politics
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
Made me laugh the other day when he repeated in parliament that the Tories would build a new nuclear power station a year, the guy has lost the plot & simply says the first thing that comes into his head whether true or false.
But, but, but.... they will be needed to power all the greenhouses and vertical farming projects. I know that they are coming cos Boris, AND Georgie Boy (at Groundswell yesterday) said so....
 

toquark

Member
Those plotters shot their bolt, he's going nowhere sadly. He's completely decimated the tory vote trying to outflank Labour in the north and the Greens in the south, pleasing no one in the process.

The party needs a principled reformer at the helm, not a blow-in-the-wind serial liar who has the moral fortitude of a sewer rat. Fat chance of that though really.
 

Ashtree

Member
Made me laugh the other day when he repeated in parliament that the Tories would build a new nuclear power station a year, the guy has lost the plot & simply says the first thing that comes into his head whether true or false.
Correction. He has not lost the plot. He never had the plot to begin with. It’s the plonkers who voted him in as leader who lost the plot. In fact, in the Tory party, the plot has been entirely mislaid. They have absolutely no idea where it is, where it was last seen, who had it last, what it looks like, etc, etc.,
Some think Farage ran off with it….
 
So. What has this one BY ELECTION win done for farmers? (Or anybody else, for that matter)?
Nothing, absolutely nothing.

The hardcore Tories are too arrogant to see or understand what these by elections are telling them though, it’s nit like this is the only one.

If you’d asked me before the last general election about the Lib Dem’s I doubt I’d have anything positive to say, I’m a conservative at heart, however at the moment they’re the last party I’d vote for.
The Tories need to have a good hard look at themselves and learn from the messages they’re being sent, but as I say, I think the present lot are far too arrogant
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 80 42.1%
  • Up to 25%

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    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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