Adrian Garrett

@wheat_daddy Totally disgusting Andrew and not only sends completely the wrong message to consumers, but further demoralises the hard working veg farmers and their employees. I spent over 25 years growing harvesting and washing carrots 11 months of the year in all weather and it is hard graft

With supermarkets back to selling veg for 4p which is giving the total wrong message to shoppers, can anyone tell me what is the role of the Grocery Code Adjudicator because if it’s meant to bring fairness in the supply chain, it’s doing anything but that.

Someone posted this on Facebook...so true! Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table At which he's fed. Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts Anyway! Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he Tries to think. Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways To tax his ass. Tax all he has Then let him know That you won't be done Till he has no dough. When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him till He's good and sore. Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in Which he's laid. When he's gone, Do not relax, It's time to apply The inheritance tax. Accounts Receivable Tax Airline surcharge tax Airline Fuel Tax Airport Maintenance Tax Building Permit Tax Cigarette Tax Cooking Tax Corporate Income Tax Goods and Services Tax (GST) Death Tax Driving Permit Tax Environmental Tax (Fee) Excise Taxes Income Tax Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Petrol Tax (too much per litre) Gross Receipts Tax Health Tax Heating Tax Inheritance Tax Interest Tax Lighting Tax Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Mortgage Tax Pension Tax Personal Income Tax Property Tax Poverty Tax Real Estate Tax Retail Sales Tax Service Charge Tax Telephone Tax Value Added Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Water Tax Tax (VAT) on Tax. And Now they want a blooming Carbon Tax! STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world... We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle class,a huge manufacturing base, and Mum stayed home to raise the kids. What in the happened? Could it be the lying parasitic politicians wasting our money? Oh, and don't forget the relatively new bank charges.... And we all know what we think of Bankers. I hope this goes around the UK at least 1,000,000,000 times!!! YOU can help it get there!

🚨 🆘 🔔 This should set alarm bells ringing. The boss of @Unilever is talking about spinning off its food business to focus on higher-margin products like beauty and personal care. 🤔 Think about that. Food: the one thing every single person depends on is becoming the least attractive part of the system. 🧵

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I see you dont know what a Farm is, allow me to explain. Farms dont make much money, but as time has gone on, land prices have meant that establishments which barely break even are "sitting" on very high resale values which is derived from the land value changing radically. None of this land value is gained by the farmer unless he sells the farm. Farmers very rarely sell a farm, because the only people who can run one, are farmers, and no local trained specialists exist, for this reason, the typical way family farms endure is by the farmer training his children, who then run the farm etc. None of them ever selling it to gain the "land value". If you put a tax on the inheritance of the farm, which is based on land resale value (irrelevant if you keep it in the family), the child, then has to pay hundreds of thousands in tax, to be permitted to run their family farm after the parents death. Unless they immediately sell the farm, thus destroying the family line, and probably ending the life of the farm, this means, that they have to find a huge sum of money, from nowhere, because farms operate at very low margins and make very little profit. So, the tax, means that a 78 year old man who spent his life on his farm training his sons, faced them never being able to run it, or utter destitution. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so. The Electoral Commission has been explicit: Labour's justification for delaying local elections is not legitimate. Not unwise. Not clumsy. Illegitimate. Extending mandates damages public confidence, undermines local legitimacy, and creates a clear conflict of interest by letting councils decide how long they can avoid voters. In any functioning democracy, that would end the matter. Here, the government presses on regardless. That's the scandal. This is no longer a party political dispute or a row between Reform and Labour. The referee has intervened and said the game is being rigged, and the players have decided to ignore the whistle. When a government continues with election delays after being told by the independent authority charged with protecting electoral integrity that its reasoning does not hold, the issue stops being reform and becomes power protecting itself. The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden. Democracy is reduced to a cost-saving exercise, something to be postponed if the spreadsheets look untidy or the reorganisation plans are mid-flow. Ministers speak of "capacity constraints" as if the right to vote is a luxury item that must wait until the filing cabinets are rearranged. In a democracy, administration exists to serve elections. Elections do not exist to suit administration. The conflict of interest identified by the Electoral Commission should alarm anyone who still believes in democratic norms. Councils are being asked whether they would like to delay the moment they must answer to voters. That's not consultation. It's self-dealing. No serious system allows those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. Yet this is now presented as a "locally led approach," as though outsourcing democratic suspension makes it virtuous. Worse still is the uncertainty. Candidates have been selected. Campaigns have begun. Money has been spent. And with months to go before polling day, the government is still dangling the possibility of cancellation. The watchdog describes this uncertainty as unprecedented. That word matters. Democracies rely on predictability. Once elections become provisional, subject to last-minute ministerial approval, the entire process is degraded. When challenged, ministers retreat into condescension. Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft." This is a familiar trick: speak for the public while denying them a voice. Redefine democratic rights as common-sense nuisances that sensible adults should stop fussing over. It's the rhetoric of managed democracy, where participation is tolerated only when it produces the correct outcome. None of this is happening in isolation. Mayoral elections have already been postponed. Now council elections are being pushed back again. The pattern is clear. When the polls turn hostile, the timetable moves. When voters become unpredictable, the vote is delayed. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to buy time. They face the electorate and take their chances. Labour is not doing that because it knows what the numbers say. The danger is not just that millions of people may be denied a vote next year. It's the precedent now being set. Once a government learns it can delay elections after the watchdog objects, after campaigns have begun and candidates are in place, the principle is broken. Elections become conditional. Democracy becomes something you are granted when those in power feel safe enough to allow it. "Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft.""

John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube channel for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up. The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the entire agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing over America.

All the while perfectly good British spuds, without the usual homes to go to and at an enormous loss to the grower, are being dumped into feeding heavily subsidised anaerobic digestion plants, thus completing the circle of domestic economic unsustainability.

Clearly!

Perfect day for chips ❤️🍟 #chips #potatoes #chippychips #perfectday

@patspotatoes Do we get a tape measure with every bag?😂

#supersagitta heading to a chip shop near you next week 🍟

You make a sale of £1200 in your business. £200 is VAT. You have £1000. You pay 25% corp tax on it. You have £750. You pay it to yourself as a dividend and pay 20%. You have £600. You spend it, and £100 of the spend was VAT. You have something worth £500. You die and pass that thing onto your kids, and your estate owes 40% in taxes. Your kids have £300. Are you seeing why it's nearly impossible to get ahead in the UK? This is why people are leaving. And it’s even worse in SNP Scotland, where higher taxes and relentless bureaucracy crush ambition further.

Anyone got a good set of flotation wheels for a Fendt 720/724 that they’d like to sell?

My Hilux was stolen from the farm last night at 10.41. Deep red colour, PK68 OTF, no canopy. I have owned it for 18 months and appear not to have taken any photos of it. The rear mud flaps don't match. Please share, it won't have gone far.

What role does evolution play in shaping our dietary needs? This question lies at the core of understanding what constitutes a nutritionally adequate diet for humans. Animals thrive when their diets align with their biological adaptations, and humans are no exception. 1/n 🧵

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Not bad going after the deluge!! #Markies @Agrico_UK

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