William Musson

@Longlivethehunt @BBCNewsnight How are you making that assessment?

@BBCNewsnight I respect our farmers hugely, but pull the other leg when you say you don't have the money, farmers have received huge subsidies for years, i only now of maybe one or two poor farmers

"I have no idea whether I'll be cropping my fields in September...  farmers haven't got the money to go and spend on all these products, we're not all Jeremy Clarkson" Newsnight viewer and farmer Mark Baker White warns of the impact fertiliser price rises. #Newsnight

@DaddyCoffee73 @northumbrian_ @Keir_Starmer In your opinion, which you clearly value very highly. Certainly higher than other people’s opinions.

@northumbrian_ @Keir_Starmer Why would you? You'd be better off financially, culturally and by every other quantifiable metric your life would improve.

NOBODY born this century voted for Brexit. More than 1 in 10 Brexit voters have died since 2016. The population has changed; Britain wants to #Rejoin! @Keir_Starmer, just do it 👍

Wool is the only textile fibre that: - Regulates body temperature in both directions: warm when cold, cooling when warm, through a moisture-wicking mechanism that no synthetic can replicate - Is naturally flame-retardant without chemical treatment, which is why it is still the mandatory textile for aircraft seating and racing drivers' undergarments - Absorbs up to 30% of its weight in moisture without feeling wet, then releases it gradually - Is biodegradable in soil within months, leaving nitrogen as it goes: it is, technically, a slow-release fertiliser - Grows back. Every year. Without harming the animal. The sheep, in fact, requires shearing. If you don't shear a sheep, it suffers. The shearing is not exploitation. The shearing is a welfare intervention. What replaced wool in your outdoor gear, your base layers, your running kit, your ski socks? Polyester. Which is a plastic. Which sheds microplastic fibres into waterways with every wash. Which does not biodegrade. Which cannot be made without petroleum. Which, when it reaches the end of its life, sits in a landfill or an ocean for five hundred years. The sheep on the Brecon Beacons is producing a renewable, biodegradable, multifunctional technical fibre from grass and rain. No factory. No fossil fuel. No microplastics. The sheep has been doing this for ten thousand years. We replaced it with plastic and told ourselves it was progress. Then told the sheep it was the problem.

@gajido_ian @AdrianRamsay @DanicaPriest Well that wins drivel of the day!

@AdrianRamsay @DanicaPriest Most cattle infections are a result of cattle to cattle transmission. Badgers are an important natural species whereas cattle form part of a resource intensive industry whose calorie contribution can be replaced with non meat alternatives that are far healthier and not cruel.

After more than a decade of culling and the deaths of over 230,000 badgers, I welcome reports that the government has committed to ending the cull. I’ve written to the responsible minister asking her to confirm that badger culling in England will end in full.

@AdrianRamsay People who don’t fully understand the problem making decisions they don’t understand the implications of because they are sure they “know” best!

@LizWebsterSBF @supertanskiii @alafreeman Is there any problem in the world that you don’t blame on Brexit? 🤣 I think things have gone tits up for Starmer mainly because he is a tit.

@supertanskiii @alafreeman The reason things have gone tits up for Starmer is bc he decided to try made Brexit work ie continue the Tory Brexit plan. Brexit eats its handlers.

I disagree with many of Labour’s decisions, but seriously? This could’ve been a hit piece on Farage who faces zero media accountability but instead, this? Labour has objectively inherited a shitshow from the Tories (who didn’t face docs like this while fucking the country).

@NoFarmsNoFoods They must be fricking mental 🤯 UK produced, grass fed cattle and sheep probably most environmentally friendly meat you can get IMO

UK Climate Change Committee recommendations to the UK government: This would absolutely decimate the farming industry.

@LizWebsterSBF @AnthonyAinsdale Give over!

@AnthonyAinsdale It’s not net zero, it’s Brexit which is destroying industry. Brexit economist Patrick Minford said it would do this. Renewable energy frees us from fossil fuel feudal trap.

Our salt processing plant in runcorn is going bust due to sky high energy costs so we'll import salt even thou we have a never ending quantity of it. It's totally insane! Net zero is destroying all our industry. Criminally reckless.

@Neands @mgshanks So double up infrastructure investment.

@mgshanks And when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine you will have to rely on gas

🥇This record breaking result shows that Britain's clean energy future is only blowing in one direction. Offshore wind is the backbone of our clean power mission and that is why we delivered a record breaking renewables auction with enough power for 16 MILLION homes! 💨

@SharePickers You haven’t factored in the capital cost of installing the kit in your cost comparison 🤣

Two weeks ago we had solar panels and a battery fitted. We have just completed our first full week with the system. Our electric bill for the week commencing 10th March 2026 compared to the same week last year has dropped by 71% from £31.71 to £9.05. We also have not received our DNO cert yet which would allow us to sell back into the grid. On sunny days our battery has been full by 11:30am meaning we don’t yet benefit from the excess free energy being produced. We are now going to buy an electric car and fill it with free energy. If only all of the UK could do this, it would go along way to reducing the countries high energy costs. @octopusenergy @g__j

@DaleVince Yes it’s definitely weather and maybe even climate change BUT achieving net zero in the UK will make absolutely no difference to our weather patterns but will harm us socially and economically (unless you happen to own a wind turbine company of course).

While Reform bang on about ’stupid net zero’ and do all they can to undermine the vital steps we need to take to mitigate the worst of climate outcomes - what do they say to this? Is it just the weather that causes record levels of flooding (drought and wildfires too)……and record costs to either repair or try to prevent. This is the other side of the equation, not hitting net zero has a very real cost - and it’s bigger than the cost of hitting it. Farage is a politician that will say anything for personal gain. He gave us Brexit and that turned out to be a pile of horseshite. Now he’s gunning for green energy, the cheapest, cleanest and safest form of energy we can make - not to mention the fastest. edie.net/defra-confirms…

@Ed_Miliband @energygovuk Twit

1/ Global events demonstrate the need to go further and faster in our drive for clean power, because there can be no energy security while we are so dependent on fossil fuels. That’s why we’re accelerating our clean power mission. lbc.co.uk/article/ed-mil…

@PlantsBikesBass @SamaHoole Non stun slaughter should be banned.

@wmcfw @SamaHoole 40 million animals killed in British non-halal or kosher farms are done without stunning. More than killed with halal or kosher. If you're concerned about animal welfare then you don't eat meat.

A criticism arrived this week suggesting that Gerald represents a "fantastical, cherry-picked version of British beef farming that bears no relation to industrial reality." Let's address this directly. There are no beef cattle in factory farms in the United Kingdom. Not some. Not most. None. Factory farming of beef cattle: the indoor, grain-fed, densely stocked system that generates the statistics most people cite when they cite beef statistics, is an American model. It does not exist here. It is not legal here in the form it takes there. The land, the climate, and the regulatory framework do not permit it. Every beef cow in Britain is raised outdoors on pasture. Approximately 85% are grass-fed for their entire lives. The majority are grass-finished: they reach slaughter weight on forage, with some grain added in the finishing period. The beef in British supermarkets comes from fields, not feedlots. Gerald is not a carefully selected exception. Gerald is the norm. Gerald is what British beef production looks like. The farmer near Ledbury is not running an artisan heritage operation. He is running a standard British beef farm. The statistics people reach for: the emissions figures, the land use figures, the water figures, are global averages heavily weighted by the American feedlot system, the Brazilian deforestation story, the industrial grain-fed model that does not apply to a field in Herefordshire and has never applied to a field in Herefordshire. Gerald grazed permanent pasture today. Gerald has grazed permanent pasture every day of his life. Gerald is the rule. The feedlot is in Kansas. Kansas is four and a half thousand miles from the south corner.

@Phil_Jones01 @afneil I guess you don’t run a business!

@afneil I guess you know your economics and economic cycles and that in a period like this after the economic shocks of Covid and Brexit and high inflation when a new government implements a new economic strategy it takes time to kick start growth and patience is required.

Update on that Starmer-Reeves growth project: Growth in November 2025: 0.2% Growth in December 2025: 0.1% Growth in January 2026: 0.0%

@AbiReader Just clean out the existing silted up small pond - no need to ask for any permission!!

Meanwhile I’ve been denied planning permission to dig a small pond in a wet corner of a field 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Hudsonweather It’ll be too windy today and they will turn them off 🤣

At a time of very high wholesale gas prices, the good news is that renewables are doing the heavy lifting, with only 8.9% of all the UK’s electricity this afternoon coming from gas fired power stations. Strong winds expected to continue, too.

@DeAthCardiff I’ve been farming a lot longer than Jeremy and I can assure the weather has always thrown challenges our way as farmers!

Every season of Clarkson’s Farm highlights how unprecedented rain, drought, or heat can cause massive problems. His own show reveals the real consequences of climate change. I guess it’s easy not to care though when you own a farm mainly as a tax dodge.

@DaleVince Utter drivel

The right headline for this story is this; ‘The farming cash grab that drove wildlife off the land’. We’ve taken 75% of our land area for farming, taken it from nature. Re wilding farmland starts to correct this. Grazing cattle is an environment disaster, not just for wildlife but for climate emissions. Red meat, its product - is poisonous, literally and actually carcinogenic. So what is it actually good for? telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@RupertLowe10 Absolute sense - it’s an absolute disgrace that religion was ever allowed to trump animal welfare.

An important piece by Sue Reid in the Daily Mail today, covering Restore Britain’s policy of a full halal/kosher slaughter ban. It discusses how an undercover cameraman entered a halal slaughterhouse and witnessed the barbaric butchery on camera. Read this. “Bleating frantically, the animal slips repeatedly on the blood-covered floor before being hauled back for the deed to be done with a large, sharp knife. Two minutes later, even though the creature is still showing signs of life, the man begins to cut off its legs.” This is not how the British treat our animals. It's just not. Sue writes how the Muslim Council of Britain have been moaning about our policy. I am entirely uninterested in that. The way 200 million animals a year are brutally butchered alive is a sickening disgrace on our nation. I am a farmer. We have a deep connection with the animals we care for. When they’re born, raised and yes - killed. They deserve to have their lives end in a humane way that entirely eliminates any unnecessary suffering. I want to really clear about Restore Britain’s position on this. On day one of a Restore Britain Government, we would remove these offensive religious exemptions. Halal and kosher slaughter would be immediately banned on British soil. That is not islamophobic or anti-semitic. That is fair and decent. And I am so proud that Restore Britain has the courage to do it. Reform have said they won’t ban it, the Tories won’t, and Labour obviously won't outlaw it. Restore Britain will. I promise.