Aled Vaughan-Jones

Cynhyrchwr llaeth o gorllewin Cymru. Milk producer from west Wales. Arla farmer owner. Harper Adams Graduate 2010. Agri Academy 2016.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.

Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.

Hundreds of jobs are at risk.

And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.

It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.

That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.

This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.

You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.

You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.

You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.

But eventually the spreadsheet wins.

And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.

Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.

Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.

This is the part Labour never wants to own.

Their policies are always sold as compassion.

But the consequences are brutally practical.

A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.

A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.

A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.

And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.

NO.

Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.

That phrase matters.

Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

This beautiful farmland landscape in Bedfordshire is at huge risk of being destroyed with 1,900 acres of solar panels. The site is larger than 1,000 football pitches. This is wrong on many levels. Mass scale solar panels shouldn’t be plastered on farmland.

[Aled Vaughan-Jones @AledVJ]

Best get you to the calving pen!
Start of block due date yesterday... 55 now calved! SS gestation length always shorter we find.

[Aled Vaughan-Jones @AledVJ]

#Farm24 just monitoring weeds in a direct drilled grass lay this evening- was drilled after a big crop of forage rye for dry cows

[Aled Vaughan-Jones @AledVJ]

Eon Energy assistant, "you require a smart meter sir"
Me, "I have a smart meter"
Eon, "It appears it doesnt work as you live in sticks, and we cant get signal,
Do you live in the sticks?'
Me, you could say that but you ffited the smart meter, 'in the sticks!"
@eonenergyuk

[Matt Tunnard @wigtoftfarmer]

It’s reassuring to know that it now takes 10 tons of wheat to pay for a PTO shaft. The jobs fu@ked!!!!!

[Aled Vaughan-Jones @AledVJ]

Clear annual TB test, a good end to a busy week! @ArlaDairyUK

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

“The effects of the family farm tax means we will lose the farm. We are the smallest farm locally. But we have an inheritance tax liability of £600,000. That’s unsustainable for us.”

[Jamie Roberts @Jamiehuwroberts]

Just a scratch #StormDarragh

[Jac o' the North 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JacotheNorth]

With Globalist Woke Labour in control in both London and Corruption Bay Wales is gonna be stuffed every which way because there'll be no complaints from @WelshGovernment
https://t.co/KgN9uk9HcT

[Aled Vaughan-Jones @AledVJ]

@Longwool @CornwallCouncil Where do you dispose of it safely?

[Nigel Owens MBE @Nigelrefowens]

Are you supporting British farmers? A RT would be very welcome if you are . @FarmersGuardian @Morrisons #Farm24

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

BREAKING - Italy bans ‘solar farms’ and other ground-mounted solar panels on its agricultural land, citing the country’s food security as a ‘major issue of national security’ after Russia’s attack on the grain fields of Ukraine.

[Prof. Jude Capper 🐄🐂🐑 @Bovidiva]

Oh the irony. @Guardian spend many column inches lambasting cattle for environmental impacts, yet bison are the new #carbon-sequestering superheroes.

"Grazing cattle's role in sequestering carbon and improving biodiversity" press release required? 🐄🐂

https://t.co/ULt07Y9604

[NRL @NRL]

Murray Taulagi with one of the greatest magic tricks you'll ever see! 🤯

[Aled Vaughan-Jones @AledVJ]

Same heifers 48hours apart!

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

I have a feeling Cardiff will be getting a new solar farm…

[Steve Evans @Evsthetractor]

Whilst 5,500 pairs of wellingtons adorned the Senedd Steps today Labour decided to have their photo taken in the carport round the corner @NFUCymru @AbiReader @1GarethWynJones @Nigelrefowens @ThatWelshFarmer

[WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WalesOnline]

The heartbreaking story of how every one of 600 cows on a family's farm had to be killed https://t.co/1Ak2EudOXV