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@JeremyClarkson @A_True_Gent_72 And we did watch the programme - so there’s that

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@NaomiLWood @Keir_Starmer Hmmm…kinda relies on providing a bus service for the wirking pipple around here 😆

[Peter Powell @powell_peter]

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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@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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@natalie_msb @1GarethWynJones I see, that’s not what came across from your original comment

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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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@cutlerstom @aSamEvans @DefraGovUK Cynically, “look at this wheel we’ve invented”

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@cutlerstom @aSamEvans (In response to the title of the document)!

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@cutlerstom @aSamEvans So was IPM as part of accreditation and SFI imaginary

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

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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“I believe that those with skin in the game make the best decisions about the places they care about.”

Really? Well that’s not what it looks like

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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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@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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@louderry @christiancalgie I’m interested in those subsidies - what’s your understanding of them?

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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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@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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@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?

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

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

https://t.co/ur5ozjKVXe

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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