nigel latimer

#Realale, #gin and #motorsport but not together............often! #SPBW & #CAMRA member ( #bftw ). High hcap #golfer.🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Two hundred of the thousand acres at Diddly Squat grew nothing at all this year. That was a decision taken in advance, on a spreadsheet. Wheat or barley on that ground was a guaranteed loss before the drill left the shed, so Jeremy Clarkson left it bare and explained why in his Sun column this week.

One line from it went everywhere. Farmers have reached the point where it is quite simply impossible to make money from growing food. Every paper carried that sentence, and every paper stopped there.

The list underneath it did not get printed anywhere.

Because he went on to set out what two hundred acres of good English ground could do instead of feeding anyone, and there were four items on it.

- Rent it to a global agri-company growing crops for anaerobic digesters.
- Cover it in solar panels.
- Put a data centre on it.
- Sell the farm to a Chinese company for a multistorey high-intensity piggery.

Every one of those pays. The only use of that land which reliably loses money is the one that puts food on a British plate. He added that he was not being ridiculous, and that anybody in 1926 would have laughed you out of the room for suggesting the factories would be gone by 2026.

Now the bit with a date on it.

From 1 January 2027 the UK's carbon border tax applies to imported fertiliser. The Treasury's own costings put the take at £140 million in 2027-28, rising to £180 million the year after. Estimates of the hit run from around £33 a tonne to £75, which is a fifth to a quarter added to the largest input bill an arable farm carries. The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers has warned that a typical 500 acre cereals farm could be down as much as £70,000 once fertiliser and fuel costs land.

So the fertiliser that grows the wheat gets taxed on a known date, in writing, by a government that says out loud it wants food security.

Nobody in Whitehall has ever signed a policy to stop Britain growing food. They have signed a great many that make every alternative pay better, which arrives at the same field.

And understand whose field this is. Diddly Squat has a television crew, a farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, a lager brand, a bestselling book every autumn and one of the best land agents in the country. It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and two hundred of them were left bare this year because putting seed in them was the losing move.

Every arable farmer in England is doing that same sum this autumn. Almost none of them have a production company to cover the difference.

Those two hundred acres have not gone out of production. They are waiting to hear which industry wants them more than you do.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@premierinn booked a room through a link in an email offering free breakfast for non flexible booking. Options were flexible, semi flexible and standard(pay now non refundable). Chose the latter which is very non flexible but no free breakfast included. This is very misleading ☹️

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@JVMonte2 Be-Bop Deluxe

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@boblister_poole @EUEXIT As the breweries will be affected by the pubs closing why don’t they refuse to supply the HOC bar?

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

I’d rather pay a pound more for milk than see our farmers go under because they don’t earn enough.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@Wise I have been trying to log into my account on numerous occasions over last 2 days and not succeeded. Nor can i find a tel no to contact you.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@jamesd_graham I don’t for 1 minute think you have a clue about banking and people.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

@AyoubKhanMP Your glee at seeing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned from Aston Villa isn't a cry for peace. It's the sound of the Leftist–Islamist alliance congratulating itself. You've turned a football fixture into an ideological victory parade – another chance to single out Jews, to humiliate Israelis, and to cloak prejudice in the language of virtue.

You call it justice. It's nothing of the kind. It's collective punishment, pure and simple. You didn't "welcome the news" – you revelled in it. "Well done to all those who signed our petition!" you wrote, as if you'd achieved something noble. What you achieved was the public endorsement of antisemitic exclusion – the kind this country once swore would never be seen again on British soil.

Let's call this what it is. Not safety. Not solidarity. But antisemitism, laundered through activism and legitimised by politics. The Left provides the moral cover – the Islamists provide the outrage – and together they march under a single banner: hatred of Israel, hatred of Jews, hatred of the West.

This alliance thrives on moral inversion. It treats terrorists as victims and Jews as aggressors. It excuses the murderers of children but vilifies those who defend them. It's a pact built on grievance and sustained by cowardice – a deal where Left-wing ideologues outsource their rage to Islamist demagogues, then call it "social justice."

When an MP joins that chorus, Parliament itself becomes complicit. You were elected to uphold British law, not mob law. To defend equality, not cheer its destruction. But you've chosen the side that despises the West while living off its freedoms. You've lent your voice to a movement that burns flags, silences dissent, and now – with your blessing – bars Jews from football grounds.

That's not progress. It's regression. A slow slide back to the politics of exclusion and fear – only this time with hashtags instead of armbands. You speak of human rights, yet cheer when they're denied to Jews. You speak of peace, yet celebrate division. You hide behind the word "Palestine," but what you mean is power – the power to dictate who may belong and who must be cast out.

This country once vowed "Never Again." Yet here we are – an MP celebrating a ban on Jewish supporters in the name of compassion. The Leftist–Islamist alliance has done what open fascists never managed – it's made antisemitism respectable again.

The mask has slipped. The Left no longer defends the Jews – it betrays them. And history will remember not only the hatred of those who shouted, but the cowardice of those who stayed silent.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

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[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@TheJunctionCas You ve earnt it. Fully deserved recognition.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@LBC There is a bar in Ghent that serves beer in a glass boot if you leave one of your shoes behind the bar. When the glass goes back you can have your shoe!

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@FreeSpeechGB They need to respect our culture if they want a reciprocal attitude towards their protest. Remembrance Sunday is so special.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@FreeSpeechGB You are missing the point.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@bookingcom My wife has contacted your cust svices as booking conf emails not recvd. Told to start new email. Told to reload app which is only place bookings confmd. Asked to verify email from your email,not recvd. Then “how did I do” email recvd! App asking 4 email conf. How?

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@YorkSPBW @YorkAdventurers @RoamingRidings @YorkCAMRA @theyorkmix Great line up. Good luck and sorry i can’t make it i m in the ☀️!

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@AntheaJayne4 @ReturnOfMount @GoodwinMJ It’s quite a conundrum in choosing to ensure you don’t waste a vote. I do not know how the smaller parties will cope with the behind the scenes political mayhem.

[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@AvonandsomerRob @DCBMEP Surely the Speaker of HoC should be demanding better behaviour?

[Solway Aviation Museum @SolwayAviation]

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[nigel latimer @Lats56]

@refsupportuk I always considered what might happen to the fouling player if he remained on the pitch. Always best to let them have safety in the dressing room rather than an even worse tackle.