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Until ye pay true worth for the labour of soil and sun, This curse shall cling to thy doors like frost that never thaws. @Tesco @sainsburys @asda @Morrisons @AldiUK @LidlGB @the_brc

@darrengrimes As far as I am concerned they can put what they like on their packaging, shop windows and social media. I sincerely wish anyone still trading and employing people in this very difficult climate the very best of luck.

Nothing says "out of touch" like a bath bomb shop telling working people that their concerns about mass migration are the problem. Lush prioritised student union radicalism over selling soap. Now they’re facing the consequences. Go woke…

@BARRA72 Whenever you go, be ready for those 1st mow finds. x.com/hubmaker/statu…

I see folk saying how they’re giving their grass its first cut. Not for me …. That’s like be on a boozy night out and going for your first pee after two pints. Don’t go too soon ….

Mowing incident. I hope it was a bone.

@jcartlidgemp If you want to know all about the PM's favourite biscuits, ask about DIP progress at #PMQs

In case you’d forgotten how fast Labour are working on the Defence Investment Plan👇

We can see only 2 reasons why Blackpool cannot be "City of Culture".

@sizov_andre Park up. Working capital on instant access at 3.5%. No risk and the slight off chance that if enough do this then gov'ts might have reason to ratchet up a bit of interest in farming the year after.

Clearly nobody (OK, almost) will plant without fertilizer

@cabinetofficeuk Will this public service and merit be obvious to all or have we to guess?

This is the biggest reform to our Parliament in a generation. 🇬🇧 This morning, the 700-year-old system of hereditary membership in the House of Lords was abolished. Membership is now earned through public service and merit, not granted by an inheritance. ✅

With the price of fert at over £800 perhaps we could pump out the turds from our own rivers and solve two problems in one go?

@PippaCrerar Ann Frank's drum kit had more utility than the next Labour election manifesto. #Foolmetwice I don't think so.

Most senior Labour figure yet to openly call for party to put rejoining EU in next election manifesto. Will others now follow? (Very few even say this privately - but it’s a long time until the next election)…

@ToryWipeout @HighFarndale @timfarron Jake, my wage worked out at 10.4p an hour last year but at least it was't a loss. If you can understand how income foregone 'subsidies' might not be as attractive as you might think you will be one step ahead of the government!

@HighFarndale @timfarron Er yes?

England is now the only country in Europe that doesn't financially support its farmers to produce food. Surely Trump's conflict in the Middle East and Putin's invasion of Ukraine show how utterly vital our food security is? The Government needs to wake up and back our farmers.

@wheat_daddy @AliDrummond4 The role of the Speaker also needs a coat of looking at if yesterday is to be the new norm. The role is little more than an expensive, ineffectual spectator.

The whole political system in the uk is a shambles and needs an overhaul with new regs in place. If businesses were run like Governments try to run our country, they wouldn’t last 5 mins. 1) In PMQ’s, the PM should answer the question and they should not have prior knowledge of it. It should be done off the cuff. If I’m asked a question about my farm I don’t read the answer from a file. 2) Any political party should be made to stick to their pre election Manifesto. Saying they are going to do things if they win but no intention of doing said things, should not be an option.

History nerds might appreciate the irony of tulips being grown with the heat produced by bitcoin mining.

Sheep. Doncha just love em!

@A_J_Snowden @Annettewhatmou1 @KemiBadenoch Why doesn’t the Speaker direct the PM to answer what he was asked? Otherwise what is the point of PMQs and what is the point of the Speaker? Why am I funding this pantomime? What has happened to “transparency” and more importantly “democracy”?

PMQ's is more than pointless, it is an utter embarrassment. We can't go on like this but how will it ever change?

River guardians do not want bribes that allow Thames Water to keep breaking the law. We want one simple thing: for Thames Water to put spades in the ground & fix every single illegal outfall within the next 5-10 years. A little story to illustrate: 5 years ago I found an illegal outfall spewing raw sewage (with visible turds) into the Aldersbrook (a tributary of the Roding). The EA refused to prosecute, but I created so much fuss locally about it that eventually I got a visit from Richard Aylard, Thames Water’s ‘Sustainability Director’ who had an unflattering appearance in the recent ‘Dirty Business’ programme. Instead of setting forth a timetable to fix the outfall, Aylard offered the River Roding Trust (the entirely volunteer run charity I founded) £50,000 for “river restoration”. I refused this offer, saying there was no point restoring a brook that still had raw shit going into it. I continued campaigning for another three years: taking numerous journalists to the outfall, getting Thames Water hauled before the local council scrutiny committee & relentlessly calling them out on social media. Eventually, after 4 years, Thames spent £1 million fixing the outfall & the brook is now clean for the first time in decades. I have no doubt that if I hadn’t discovered the outfall in the first place, or if I had taken the £50,000, the outfall would still be putting raw turds into the Aldersbrook, a stone’s throw from Ilford town centre. It’s obvious for Thames that’s it cheaper to pay their critics to keep quiet than to do the work needed to fix the problem, but this is not what our rivers need.

@ShepherdWales Let him without an ISA cast the first stone

You can’t get your knickers in a twist over a wealthy business owner using legal means to pay less tax if you pay your tradesperson or your child’s tutor, for example, in cash, to avoid VAT. Added to which that’s actually against the law - and the tradesperson will clearly not be declaring that cash intake to HMRC either - double tax evasion as opposed to legal tax avoidance.

@Jes_Squirrell @TiceRichard Let those without an ISA cast the first stone. If it is legal but unsavoury then change the law.

Well he’s been throwing enough stones, funnily enough it turns out he was in a glass house! Time to resign @TiceRichard

@D_B_O_A_R_M_A @Time4Restore @FarmingUK Supermarkets buy carrots from one, spuds from another, cauli's, eggs, beef, each from the very best producer working at a tiny margin. The farm down the road isn't being greedy; it will never be the most efficient at all forms of agri and so will have a higher cost base.

@Time4Restore @FarmingUK If they are making a living that’s enough why be greedy if the government stop the subsidies then it’s ok to raise ya prices ya can’t have tax paid subsidy and double bubble .

Is there a market for rental telly memorabilia? @GranadaReports