Sue Ridout

Retired vet and field epidemiologist. I back British farming . Views are my own.

[Sue Ridout @Flyinglexidog]

@MichelleDewbs So the guy who threw a can that hit a police officer, will he be arrested and imprisoned for two years like the lad who threw objects at police in Southampton (and didn’t hit anyone)?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

This guy is brilliant!
Just what the Senedd needed.
💥

[Sue Ridout @Flyinglexidog]

@darrengrimes Sadly her policies have already pushed too many farmers to cease farming

[Whitchurch Herald @whit_herald]

Beloved Whitchurch dairy herd sold for record average of almost £3,000 https://t.co/DQiz2G55UU

[Sue Ridout @Flyinglexidog]

@jan_murray I had a mastectomy six years ago to remove breast cancer and have no skin sensation over a large area of skin on that side. I would never support a double mastectomy unless there is disease present. Shame on Lush!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Michael Pope @OyVeyPope]

@JohnCleese It's a remarkably comforting theory.

If every public reaction is caused by Elon Musk, nobody ever has to examine why people are reacting in the first place.

[Sue Ridout @Flyinglexidog]

@KemiBadenoch @CCHQPress When you hear a young soldier (promoted), who always wanted to be a soldier, say that he is thinking of leaving the army as there is no leadership from Government, you know something’s very wrong #wrongpriorities #noleadership #timeforchange #generalelectionnow

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep.

The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements.

For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep.

A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own.

The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing.

Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin.

So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good.

A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off.

You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

>Lola McVey MP thinks that not taxing something = subsidising it
>Lola is an elected lawmaker
>Lola doesn’t understand basic tax law

We are being governed by idiots.
Actual, genuine, certifiable idiots.

[Family Education Trust @FamEdTrust]

Chief Treasury Secretary Lucy Rigby has defended the Government’s decision to not reduce interest rates on student loans, saying the money is being used to fund benefit schemes including ‘free breakfast clubs’ and lifting the two child benefit cap.

Trapping graduates in a lifetime of debt in order to fund breakfasts for children whose parents should be feeding them at home is not beneficial to anyone - children, families or young adults starting out in life.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Energy use by AI data centres in the UK could cause emissions of 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide – as much generated by 2.7 million people over 10 years.

So while cow burps are blamed and farmers get punished with a carbon tax on fertiliser, the tech giants are rewarded with AI data centre contracts.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Dairy farmers work every day of the year. They deserve a fair return 🐄🇬🇧

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Absolutely ridiculous.
🤡🌍🥚

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Governments tell us to cut eating red meat to ‘save the planet’ while they ram through hundreds of massive data centres that consume vast amounts of energy and water…

[Sue Ridout @Flyinglexidog]

@ThePatriotOasis @elonmusk @RobertJenrick @PatrickChristys @GBNEWS

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

I just got a new phone, almost as if there were a sophisticated back up system, all my old texts appeared by magic on my new phone….

I wonder why Labour politicians do not have this service available to them 🤔

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

You can survive without politicians. They come and go.

But you cannot survive without farmers.

No farmers.
No food.