@JeremyClarkson @A_True_Gent_72 And we did watch the programme - so there’s that
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@A_True_Gent_72 But you didn’t pay for my education so there’s that.
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We paid for Angela Rayner’s education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life.
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@NaomiLWood @Keir_Starmer Hmmm…kinda relies on providing a bus service for the wirking pipple around here 😆
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@Keir_Starmer Who are these wirking pipple? They don’t seem to be any of the hard working people I know
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Our Plan for Change is about putting working people first.
The £3 bus fare cap has already cut costs for families.
We’re extending it — making travel simpler, cheaper and better for everyone.
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Stopping the sustainable farming incentive, (a key element of the English nature friendly farming budget) is a straight up attack on nature restoration.
What is going on @SteveReedMP ?
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@mays_farm @LittleBigFarm What a twit, I’d go back with “So sorry, that you’ve had this issue, from now on we’ll switch them off and fingers crossed we don’t run anyone over eh”
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Please could you turn your combine harvester sound down please whilst feeding me please, it’s annoying me. And if you get dust near my sandwiches I will have to complain even more. @LittleBigFarm
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@natalie_msb @1GarethWynJones Perhaps that’s what you should’ve said then rather than responding with an insult directed at ‘farmers’. I reacted to what you said, not what you apparently meant.
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@Anne_Fenn @1GarethWynJones I’m a farmer who voted for remain so I’m well aware that not all farmers voted for Brexit. But the attitude and logic that voted for Brexit is the same attitude and logic that I see in these moaning farmers now.
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I’ll get a social media ban after this I bet #farming #food #future please share if you agree 👍
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@natalie_msb @1GarethWynJones I see, that’s not what came across from your original comment
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@Anne_Fenn @1GarethWynJones It was the same ignorance numpties who voted for Brexit who are now blaming Labour for the consequences of Tory Brexit.
The Farmers who voted for Remain are not looking for a scapegoat because they did not cause the problem.
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@natalie_msb @1GarethWynJones Except they voted for Brexit by the same proportion as the rest of the people - same split over age demographics, areas of the country and other criteria and there’s no rose tinted glasses over the effective of the last govt’s agricultural policies either
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@1GarethWynJones Farmers problems are 100% down to the Tories and Brexit that the Farmers voted for.
Farmers were the ignorant fools who voted for their own problems. They now try to blame Labour to pass the buck for their own stupid mistakes.
Ignorant half wits.
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I’m wondering why I keep getting emails from @DefraGovUK banging on about crop rotation and selective pesticide use like farmers haven’t been practicing these techniques since the DAWN OF TIME.
We are in a world of trouble if Gov think stuff we already do is new and “the answer”
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@cutlerstom @aSamEvans So was IPM as part of accreditation and SFI imaginary
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Farming leaders “Defra’s decision to withdraw the sustainable farming incentive will leave farms with no choice but to intensify to stay in business”
Defra: “hold my beer”
gov.uk/government/new…
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A brilliant and accurate thread 👏🏻
Everyone should read this - what is happening is remarkable and grim
Highly highly regressive
Unravelling about two decades of effort and thought by everyone
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In the context of everything farmers & society have been told since 2017, this is insane. Overnight @UKLabour has ejected the foundational principle that we need more nature & climate action across our landscape in favour of culture wars. 🧵 1/ theguardian.com/environment/20…
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@herdyshepherd1 Exactly this, payments as reimbursement for purchases and/or work involved in SFI or loss of revenue not subsidies for doing nothing. It’s really not surprising that ‘farm subsidies’ are dirty words to hard working tax payers if this isn’t clear
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I’m pretty sure no one there understands this
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The point missed here is that subsidies have already ended - all bar the max £7200 delinked payment anyway. SFI isn’t a subsidy. It’s a payment in return for environmental good supplied. If the new government don’t realise this, then it’s little wonder we are where we are.
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@NaomiLWood @greenarteries The one size fits all approach to the nature recovery devised in an air conditioned office is an expensive and ineffective sticking plaster isn’t it!
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@greenarteries With A14 a stretch of road lined by short green plastic tree guard sentinels mile by mile with the odd tree sticking its head out and saying ‘I’m here!’ whilst all its mates died through bad regional ‘improvements’, I hold little hope for more than constipation and bad decisions
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“Developers will no longer have to offset damage done on individual sites…instead contrib to a Nature Restoration Fund securing env improvement at a regional/ nat level…planning officers rather than cllrs to make decisions on all but largest develops”
thetimes.com/article/3b57b8…
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@louderry @christiancalgie I’m interested in those subsidies - what’s your understanding of them?
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@christiancalgie Farmers have tax breaks and subsidies, their children also have a 50% tax break on any inheritance and triple the inheritance threshold.
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@Juliest101 You won’t believe it Julie but food producers are looking out for yours and everybody’s food security. Has it not crossed your mind that each of them owning land could sell up, pay the tax and never have to work another day? Offers come in the post quite regularly you know!
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Message to all farmers ....
the overwhelming majority of people in our country wants NHS waiting lists to come down so do the right thing and pay your fair share of taxes like everyone else.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
You can’t have tax breaks for some of the wealthiest if you want NHS waiting lists to come down.
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@JamesMelville There was a suggestion that agriculture should rebrand as ‘food production’ several years ago. ‘Food producer’ protests, ‘Food producers’ take out loans to buy ‘food producing equipment’. The price of ‘food producing’ has skyrocketed. It’s pathetic dumbing down but here we are
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I cannot express enough how horrendous this statement is from Keir Starmer. He’s literally pitching farmers against the NHS. And framing them as tax dodgers. It’s absolutely disgraceful.
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@FarmingUK Disingenuous - whole new meaning when you read ‘food production’ instead of farmers. Poorest in society get a life of reliance on NHS and struggle to learn or work from being malnourished. Why put more spanner’s in the works of making sure your nation can be adequately fed?
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❗ The prime minister has said 'there is a choice' between NHS waiting lists coming down and maintaining the agricultural property tax relief for farmers
farminguk.com/news/public-ha…
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And if you wonder what this is really all about… read this
Spoiler alert - it isn’t about a tax break to fund nurses
I thought this goverment was just a bit thick and in a financial hole - they escalated this this week to genuinely dreadful politics
unherd.com/2024/11/a-farm…
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@No1FarmerJake @SteveReedMP @DanielZeichner @RingersWm @NFUtweets @nfumidlands @NFUWorcs @Natures_Voice We see loads on the farm and have done for years. They’ve definitely benefitted from the CS mid tier actions - which presumably means that small mammals have too
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Barn owl in the traditional orchard - heading out for supper. Just part of what we do @SteveReedMP @DanielZeichner these are high on my agenda even if I’m not high on yours
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