- Location
- Essex
Unregulated meat imports.
- Thread starter Humble Village Farmer
- Start date
- Location
- Essex
From this week's Private Eye.
Meanwhile we are told by the fee takers that farm assurance is a matter of food safety.
Meanwhile we are told by the fee takers that farm assurance is a matter of food safety.
totally irrelevant ,
all that is needed is tighter controls on UK farmers production via red tractor Farm assurance.
must be true the nfu council and president says so ,of you are still a member then you are to blame as much as anyone, simple.
all that is needed is tighter controls on UK farmers production via red tractor Farm assurance.
must be true the nfu council and president says so ,of you are still a member then you are to blame as much as anyone, simple.
- Location
- Essex
Ha f¥cking ha
but red tractor was instigated by the nfu to prevent more scandals in farming here, ie to stop F &M etc happening again .
so everything's fine and dandy after 20 odd years lol.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Am I missing something? What on earth has this got to do with RT? Lack of inspections of food coming in is down to UK Govt's 'get Brexit done at all cost' policy, and the continual delays in instigating proper inspections.
Keeps the cost of importing food down though, which Rees Mogg keeps saying is a Brexit bonus.
Where spot checks have found sh*te like this coming in just shows that govt policy up to be an even bigger, and more dangerous, sham. Nothing whatsoever to do with RT though (or NFU, or AHDB, before the usual pitchforks come out).
- Location
- Devon
From the current issue of Private Eye.
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This Issue also incudes a note of thanks from Alan Bates for it's covering of the Post Office scandal.
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- Location
- Northumberland
Think I’ll have to renew my subscription.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Just watched Harry's farm video, where he is now farming about 125 acres, from 300 a few years ago, all the rest being in habitat schemes. If this is replicated throughout the UK (remember here in Wales the Welsh Assembly want us to plant 10% of our land in trees, a further 10% in habitat and the whole country is now a NVZ) we will hardly produce any food! Bearing this in mind, I can see why the government is dragging it's feet over controlling substandard food imports.
- Location
- Somerset UK
Yes your are missing something because if there is a food safety scandal over this you can bet a £ to a pinch of sh!t nfu/rt/brc will use that as an excuse to ratchet up rt standards even more whilst doing nothing about imports.
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Private Eye can be good, but Hislop is known as a spiteful, priggish little hypocrite - he's pushed out and sacked all and any who have potential to replace him as editor; 28 years in place, yet he criticises others who try to 'cling to power' elsewhere.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
How the hell can you have unregulated meat imports ?
don’t you have Customs, or Border Controls ?
don’t you have very clear & strict import regulations with your trading partners ?
in my experience as a producer in a country that relies about 75% on export agricultural markets, I can assure you very much that it is the importing country who sets the rules
at least, it is for any country that my produce ends up
i can’t believe that the UK has lower standards or controls on imports than India, Bangladesh, China, numerous middle eastern or southeast Asian countries ?
don’t you have Customs, or Border Controls ?
don’t you have very clear & strict import regulations with your trading partners ?
in my experience as a producer in a country that relies about 75% on export agricultural markets, I can assure you very much that it is the importing country who sets the rules
at least, it is for any country that my produce ends up
i can’t believe that the UK has lower standards or controls on imports than India, Bangladesh, China, numerous middle eastern or southeast Asian countries ?
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
PE is a great read, and holds the status quo to account on a regular basis.
Sure, some of the content can be anti government, but most other media sources have other agendas too.
Interesting to read in latest issue that Paula Vennels of Post Office shame was using lawyers initially in an ill fated attempt to muzzle enquiring journalists.
PE are still all over the goings on at Teesport/Lord Ben - I'm watching with interest as it seems the taxpayer is being royally shafted, and nobody else cares...
Sure, some of the content can be anti government, but most other media sources have other agendas too.
Interesting to read in latest issue that Paula Vennels of Post Office shame was using lawyers initially in an ill fated attempt to muzzle enquiring journalists.
PE are still all over the goings on at Teesport/Lord Ben - I'm watching with interest as it seems the taxpayer is being royally shafted, and nobody else cares...
Y Fan Wen
Member
- Location
- N W Snowdonia
I'm afraid, post Brexit, normal rules no longer apply here.
He really is.
Doesn't seem to realise that he's now as much a part of the establishment himself as those he loves to berate, or else fully realises it but thinks no one else is smart enough to twig on.
A proper little snake-in-the-grass.
Danllan
Member
- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Good Christian though, eh...?
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Our import/export activities have now gone back to stone age disciplines.
Paper records, and limited windows in which to apply for licences.
Unbelievable really, used to be on an EU wide electronic platform.
The world's full of charlatans, another one hardly make much difference.Good Christian though, eh...?
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
I started a subscription some 30 years ago. At the time as a young man of no consequence (and today an old man of no consequence) I concluded the only way I could have a say in society and hope in any way to influence and keep democracy and administration of society honest was to rely on parody and satire in the form of Private Eye. And the well educated and eloquent who at the time wrote it. I had been introduced to Punch magazine at my secondary school where in the school library was a copy of Punch and every day the daily papers - which we were encouraged but not forced to read. My one regret is I never retained all those copies. I used to give them away or even put them in the bin - what a foolish thing to do - with hindsight. I was listening to a Ian Hislop interview over Xmas about the Eye. He said it is in rude health, which pleased me with around 250k copies sold. Numbers had fallen away but risen again in recent times. My daughter as taken to it and even got her office to start a subscription.
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Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
I've no problem with the Eye, and hadn't with Hislop initially. It's a fine idea in principle, but sadly he's stayed too long and it is now as much a grandstand for him as anything else...