unavailable for comment

[delilah]

radio 4 farming today this morning, as listened to I would imagine by a significant chunk of the UK's movers and shakers.
Today's subject; no deal Brexit. Mildly important then.
"We asked the NFU to comment but no-one was available".
They clearly need a bigger communications department and budget.

 

[Henarar]

shhh
best not criticise

 

[D14]

radio 4 farming today this morning, as listened to I would imagine by a significant chunk of the UK's movers and shakers.
Today's subject; no deal Brexit. Mildly important then.
"We asked the NFU to comment but no-one was available".
They clearly need a bigger communications department and budget.

A no deal brexit will finish farming in the UK and hopefully the NFU at the same time. They are just useless.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

"We asked the NFU to comment but no-one was available".

There will be more to this.

Did they ask the NFU 7 minutes before going live?

The NFU have probably issued plenty of statements relating to a hard brexit, but the producers chose not to use them.

 

[Goweresque]

They'll all be on holiday. Every office based environment is like a ghost town at this time of year. Its impossible to get anything done because someone in the chain somewhere is away on their hols. I've got a fairly important bit of legal work on the go at the moment, my solicitor was away for 2 weeks in July, no sooner had he come back than the other side's solicitor goes away. Everything was agreed in June, we'll be lucky to get it all signed up by September, because of the empty office problem in July and August. If anyone wanted to invade the UK, do it in July/Aug, the entire Army senior staff would be on holiday.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

If anyone wanted to invade the UK, do it in July/Aug,

It certainly wouldn't be Spain, Portugal or Italy.

 

[easyram1]

Minette Batters was interviewed by Nick Robinson on Radio 4's Today just after 8.00 this morning with particular reference to sheep post 31 Oct. Very good and one of the few people speaking on our behalf who makes sense outside the farming community. This interview will have reached a lot more of the general public, whose support we need, than Farming Today methinks.

 

[David.]

Haven't heard Farming Today for years, thought it had gone all Miriam OReilly, more anti conventional farming like Countryfile, and was about anything except farming, last I listened to it.

 

[Campbell]

Radio 2 Vanessa Vine just had a Farming Brexit phone in, ended in a draw.....

 

[TripleSix]

It certainly wouldn't be Spain, Portugal or Italy.

They're all on holiday too.

European factories all seem to shut down for a month?
Not even anyone answering the phone!

 

[delilah]

There will be more to this.

Did they ask the NFU 7 minutes before going live?

The NFU have probably issued plenty of statements relating to a hard brexit, but the producers chose not to use them.

It doesn't wash. It is inexcusable for the NFU not to have a pool of people capable of talking to the media in the 24/7 world we live in.

Whatever you may think of Chris Packham at least he is committed to his cause. I bet he is never 'unavailable for comment' and there's only one of him.

 

[Steevo]

If you were the BBC with such an agenda.....wouldn't it be convenient to be able to say "we tried but nobody picked up" and then peddle the same old tripe.

It's so much easier to write a one sided story if you can find an excuse not to give the alternative point of view.

 

[CornishTone]

Radio 2 Vanessa Vine just had a Farming Brexit phone in, ended in a draw.....

I listened to that. Couldn't understand a word the Welsh fella was saying unfortunately. I'll put it down to a bad phone line, but there was some good points on both sides. The chap from Somerset certainly had the passion, but one of the last to speak, who talked about the "triple whammy", got his point across the best of all of them I think.

 

[renewablejohn]

Pleased they are unavailable for comment if there all like the welsh NFU guy on sky news admitting he voted remain and peddling the remain agenda.

 

[Woolless]

Pleased they are unavailable for comment if there all like the welsh NFU guy on sky news admitting he voted remain and peddling the remain agenda.

So what, if he was asked and answered a straight question?

 

[Stewie]

They're all on holiday too.

European factories all seem to shut down for a month?
Not even anyone answering the phone!

Italy used to be that way 20 years ago. In the cities you could almost walk in the middle of the street in August when I was a child.
Nowadays most companies close for 10 days mid August with the bulk of the employee taking their holidays in July/August.

 

[Steevo]

Pleased they are unavailable for comment if there all like the welsh NFU guy on sky news admitting he voted remain and peddling the remain agenda.

Sounds like the Scottish, Welsh and Irish people on the news - we don't want "no deal".

Take the Sturgeon lady effectively saying "Our country voted overwhelmingly to remain so Boris should take notice of us". Seems to ignore the fact that the UK had a single referendum, and that outcome was leave, instead making splits of "us" and "them" nation-wise.

Plenty are using the current situation to ignore the referrendum result and peddle their own agendas and distracting from the main agenda........thankfully Boris appears to have his eyes on the longer term picture.

 

[Muddyroads]

I listened to that. Couldn't understand a word the Welsh fella was saying unfortunately. I'll put it down to a bad phone line, but there was some good points on both sides. The chap from Somerset certainly had the passion, but one of the last to speak, who talked about the "triple whammy", got his point across the best of all of them I think.

He did put his case across clearly, but 1 of his 3 points of doom was that we’d be flooded by cheap inferior quality imports, and another was that there’d be food shortages with masses of empty shelves. How can you have both?

 

[Wooly]

A no deal brexit will finish farming in the UK and hopefully the NFU at the same time. They are just useless.

Why? Do we all stop eating when we come out of Europe !

Consumers are told their food is going to cost more when we leave. Farmers are told we will get less for our produce.

How does that work !?!

 

[B'o'B]

He did put his case across clearly, but 1 of his 3 points of doom was that we’d be flooded by cheap inferior quality imports, and another was that there’d be food shortages with masses of empty shelves. How can you have both?

Maybe the first scenario to start with, soon after followed by the second, that if we don’t get our act together pretty sharpish on the world stage!