Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

[Pistonbroke]

Police are saying there were 3000 people. Would be a bit ironic if the 26 delayed buses were stuck behind the feckin tractors 🫣

 

[Still Farming]

Was that the queue for Greggs? Always busy in there, its those lovely vegan sausage rolls - did you all try one, really nice

No que

 

[organic]

GB News has just had an interview with a farmer about the protest. Sorry but he did little to advance our cause.

If you are putting people on TV/Radio please make sure they are media trained.

 

[Still Farming]

Look like Conservatives motion with tb and sfw failed just now too???

Speaker had casting vote allegedly??

 

[steveR]

How many Welsh family farms derive all their income from solely farming? Most have the wife going out to work, holiday lets, son's driving for agricultural contractors etc , etc. probably end up with more hobby farmers.

Think Alps and similiar upland areas in Europe. Part time farmers, even where there are some subs....

Remember chatting with a farmer in Bavaria 25 yrs ago, farmed 70-80ac and had a full time job in town.

 

[vantage]

Speaker had casting vote allegedly??

Same as, same as.

 

[steveR]

1 fully grown cannabis plant is worth £1000 so i am told

Remember trail riding in Mid Wales in the late 80s, and popped out in a little encampment of hippy travellers. The swaying leaves of their cannabis crop was 100m up the trail....

 

[farmerm]

Just read an article in the Guardian about the event, seems to be taking a completely different take on the event I went to. I think we need the unions to issue better press releases to journalists, as I feel we still aren't getting our message across.

The Guardian are a right bunch of c***s!

 

[lloyd]

GB News has just had an interview with a farmer about the protest. Sorry but he did little to advance our cause.

What did he say?
I see earlier today they interviewed a scottish farmer .

 

[Lofty1984]

Only booing I heard was when Abi Reader said how we will all change to reach net zero. Not what most farm's priority is at the moment

She certainly was the least well received

 

[lloyd]

Was that the queue for Greggs? Always busy in there, its those lovely vegan sausage rolls - did you all try one, really nice

Of course you could try not eating at all ,do let us know the result.

 

[Pilatus]

Slightly off topic.

Do any of you know how this new Labour Candidate is getting on?
Quite ironic that his parents are about as Blue Conservative as you can get.
They have an estate at Nr Cirencester, and own virtually all the village of Calmsden .
So does Henry Tufnell support the Welsh Government’s proposed legislation for greening policy related to farm payments.

 

[Bald Rick]

She certainly was the least well received

Abi Reader was interviewed by Nick Sevini afterwards and repeated the Net Zero comment when he asked her why she was booed.
Guess she is only following the NFU party line in the pledge to be carbon neutral by 2040 (or whatever date it is).
However, it is not a stance that will play well for someone who wants to follow Aled Jones as president

 

[Simon Chiles]

I heard the Jeremy vine show and I'm sorry but one or two of the
farmers came across very poor.I wanted to grab the phone and tell
that misinformed anti sheep/beef caller that the 50% imported animal
feed ,soya she was referring to was going to mainly intensive chicken and
pork not grazed animals on the hills.
Also that one farmer saying she would potentially lose 60 acres to trees worth
£900k isn't particularly helpful convincing the Welsh labour voters that farmers
need their support.

I too thought the bit where the lady sheep farmer said that her land would be devalued by £900k wasn’t going to get much sympathy from the general public. It was a bit unfortunate because she was otherwise doing quite a good job of representing the industry.
The woman who said that Welsh farmers should give up rearing beef and sheep and concentrate on potatoes really needed pulling up a bit more as it would have been easy to pick holes in all her comments.

 

[Bald Rick]

I too thought the bit where the lady sheep farmer said that her land would be devalued by £900k wasn’t going to get much sympathy from the general public. It was a bit unfortunate because she was otherwise doing quite a good job of representing the industry.
The woman who said that Welsh farmers should give up rearing beef and sheep and concentrate on potatoes really needed pulling up a bit more as it would have been easy to pick holes in all her comments.

Trouble is, most of us do not have any media training and spout off when a microphone is thrust at you.

Instructive when you think about how often you alter or edit a post before pressing reply

 

[Boohoo]

A couple of livestream videos from today.

LIVE (part 1) from the Welsh Farmers Protest

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LIVE (part 2) from the Welsh Farmers Protest

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The mention of net zero by the speaker from NFU didn't go down well but that seems to have been a low point.
Looks like the police were expecting something completely different.

 

[Still Farming]

Ffs wasters ???

 

[Bald Rick]

Ironic @Clive ?…

 

[Lofty1984]

Well I thought it went well I was on one of the tractors thought we were being stopped within the first mile by the police they diverted us into a local retail park but just wanted us all together to read us a statement /plan. Obviously they had to be impartial but was very evident they were very much in support of us that’s my interpretation at least,
We were never going to get anywhere close to the sennedd and where we were parked up to me was a good spot it was very visible to the public, serious amounts of waving horn blowing etc from other motorists on the roads during the drive down which was great to see

 

[Lofty1984]

Ffs wasters ???

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