Scottish Enlightenment

Home truths from Scottish farmer Will Murray to the Labour government: “You broke the trust of every farmer in the nation with Inheritance Tax. It has broken us."

The farmlands of North East Fife are a thing of beauty. One of Scotland’s most fertile agricultural areas with over 840 farms. A mixture of livestock, barley, wheat, oilseed rape, raspberries, strawberries & tatties. The scenery is stunning. Howe of Fife is the garden of Fife. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If one thing could be improved in Scotland, what would it be?

Welcome to Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland is a place of staggering natural beauty. Glorious Loch Tay. Kenmore. Perthshire. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs have joined forces to develop The Entrepreneurs Manifesto for Scotland. A compelling and thoughtful bit of work by @SirTomHunter and the Hunter Foundation. Please watch this video.

Scotland has a proud history of invention, enterprise, innovation, industry and entrepreneurialship. These traits have been decimated over the past few decades. It’s time to get it back. It’s time for a new age of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿enlightenment.

Welcome to the Scottish Enlightenment. A new campaign to discuss, share, stimulate and promote ideas and positive change for the people of Scotland. We aim to bring together the best of Scotland in all walks of life to start a new era of Scottish enlightenment. Please join us.

So it now looks like Keir Starmer is on his way out. And about time. What he did to British farmers was unforgivable.

The fact that the Labour government are wilfully making life a hell of a lot more difficult (especially financially) for the nation’s food providers (farmers and fishing communities) is absolutely disgraceful.

British agriculture. A national treasure.

“It shouldn’t take a war for Britain to wake up to the need for food security.” ~ Professor Tim Lang Completely agree. It’s time for the government to put food security right at the top of the political agenda. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

She’s right.

Today is #EarthDay. And let’s remember those who turn our soil into food and our earth into beautiful countryside - farmers.

Covering car parks with solar panels is a hell of a lot more logical than plastering them over prime farmland that provides our food.

And some people blame cows for destroying the planet.

The cost of a £5.50 pint. 14p profit for the pub owner. And just look at how much the government takes…

“Cow farts are destroying the environment.”

Plastering solar panels on prime farmland reduces national food security and is countryside vandalism.