And I dont mean for all that messing around with animal shit.
Big protest tomorrow apparently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy4xv5dy5yo
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And I dont mean for all that messing around with animal shit.
Big protest tomorrow apparently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy4xv5dy5yo
It's called manure :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Good to see that 'man of the people' Farage has been vocal in his support of farmers in regard to this inheritance tax whilst conveniently forgetting the damage Brexit has played on the industry as a whole.
He's offered to speak at the rally but the farmers organising are considering his generosity of him speaking for them.
Good ole Nige. There for the downtrodden again and it's definitely not about him.
Please stop talking shite TBG.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Will Hutton did an interesting piece in The Observer yesterday. If his take is right (he has always been very careful with his numbers) there will be 500 rich farmers affected each year tops, and the tractor convoys organised by the NFU claiming small hill farmers will be driven under by inheritance tax changes are all bollux:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-rural-britain
A lot that I've met certainly are.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Farmers unhappy that the subsidy money they receive from taxpayers is going to come with obligations not to destroy the environment. Also raging that they no longer get preferential tax treatment to the refs of the population. Revolting is the right word for them
Didn't Mau get rid of the farmers or am I thinking of some other despot? Maybe Stalin?
Stalin purged the kulaks. Starved millions to death in the name of collectivism
Really? Most farms worth over a million ? If they pass them on to carry on farming there is no way they should be taxed on it, Christ we barely make anything here anymore and soon we might be importing milk ! We need farmsQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
First they came for the 500 rich farmers, and I did not speak out, because I was not a rich farmer.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Your position is surely more Jeremy Clarkson than Pastor Niemoller.
'Nooooooooooo!' would be more appropriate. :hehe:
I thought that flat capped celebrity farmers spokesman outside the Welsh Labour conference was a right entitled tosser
Every time these farmers want something they expect the prime minister just to turn up and speak to them in the car park ?
40 percent IHTQuote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
20 percent for farmers ?
The majority of farmers voted brexitQuote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Return to sender
UK food exports are well up since Brexit. You just don't read about itQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.u...bly-resilient/
The difference of course is that the asset is fundamental to the job of farming. Owning land may be an asset to me, to sell or develop etc, but for farms it is a requirement of the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
It does seem another mistake from the government to me. An unnecessary fight and a risky one given the importance and fragility of the sector
The NFU favoured staying in the EU.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
So Brexit has been an unqualified success for farming?Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Dunno. But food exports are well up which is unlikely to be bad. I think the changes to agriculture payments are positive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Farmers across the EU spent much of this year protesting too.
I doubt it all makes that much difference in reality
Well the NFU seem sensibleQuote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Farmers are generally very odd
I thought it was quite a good joke :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Jimbo, I'm a little disappointed in you using a small piece of information to come to a conclusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Let's see what the farmers say?
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/...arm-subsidies/
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-refere...count-the-cost
https://westcountryvoices.com/brexit-and-farming/
Obviously we should take into account, farmers are notoriously moaning bastards who in the main see a lovely field with a family having a picnic, and there’s a nice pond in it, they fill in the pond with concrete, they plough the family into the field, blow up the tree, and use the leaves to make a dress for their wife who’s also your brother.
I've seen all the big eared boys on farmsQuote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
The fact is that food exports are growing pretty well and we were told the opposite would happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
I'm sure there are a gr at diversity of opinions on it, but it's pretty clear that none of it drove them to protest unlike what's happening today, and also as has been happening all year across the EU. Indeed one can speculate that the farmers here would have been protesting had we not left?!