Alan West

Lleyn and Herdwick sheep breeder and retired agric. lecturer, looking for new challenges . Working towards sustainable sheep production and better soil health!

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

Al has been a friend for more years than I remember. He has always had my respect.

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

£240m…….. That’s the entire new SFI budget Defra reckons Britain’s farmers are worth, and Window 1 will be gone in minutes.

Defra’s own payroll? £1.8bn a year. Over seven times more spent on the staff than on the farmers actually growing the food.

So here’s a real saving Labour, scrap Defra altogether. Sack the lot, bank the billions, and drop the pretence any of this was ever about backing British farming.

£240m says you were never serious ☹️
@reformparty_uk @UKLabour @TheFarmingForum @agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

There are always plenty of knuckle draggers simply looking for an excuse to cause trouble and a few, with their own agendas happy to orchestrate violence.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Elon Musks needs to stay out of UK politics.

RT if you agree!

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸 Trump: "I was not tricked by Netanyahu into an Iran war. I'm the one who started it. I don't want to bore anybody."

Translation: 🇺🇸 Obama and Biden avoided war because they understood the consequences. Trump was fooled by Netanyahu and now won't admit it that he is an idiot.

[Baroness Patricia of Plague Island @Patrici89225734]

Two of the most abhorrent men in the UK and one of them is an actual MP!

[Nature Vid @naturevid2]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.

During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.

But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.

No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

Tough,dry and a bad cut, cut the wrong way looks like it’s made of string. Awful!

[Elena @ElenaBee0]

What's your first thought when you see this steak?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Royal Mail - Czech
National Grid - Australian
Thames Water - Canadian/Qatar
British Petroleum - American
British Gas - American
British Telecom - Indian
Rolls Royce - German

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

Somebody forgot to turn the cooker on!

[Benonwine @benonwine]

What’s missing from my Full English?

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

@TheGriftReport Absolutely the right thing, I know as an industry we need the support but the ignorance snd sense of entitlement of these individuals is 100% unacceptable. Number plates should not have been pixilated out, time to name and shame.

[Ann Sullivan @AnnSull91955949]

@TheGriftReport @Melanie18971658 The entitlement of these individuals is appalling. It’s the same with the people invading the Hampstead nature haven disturbing the nesting birds. It’s a pity the farmer wasn’t around then with his slurry machine. We have become a narcissistic society with no respect to others.

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

A potato

[Tuğçe yıldız @tugce190333]

Sağ beyniniz varsa kedi yavrusu görürsünüz,sol beyniniz varsa tavşan yavrusu görürsünüz.

Siz ne görüyorsunuz

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

More than 80% of the cut flowers we buy in Britain are flown or shipped in.

Eighty percent. 🙁

We can grow them right here, and demand for British blooms is climbing fast.

Stock British flowers. Label them clearly. Let people choose.

@Tesco @sainsburys @asda @marksandspencer
#BackBritishFarming #BritishFarming #UKFarming
https://t.co/lXCUCfqeSq

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

A decent cook!!

[Tokyo @otokyo]

Whats missing from this breakfast? 🍳

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain has 17.5 million hectares of agricultural land.

65% of it cannot grow a single crop.

Too thin. Too high. Too wet. Too steep. The kind of slope where a tractor becomes a story they tell in the village pub for generations.

It grows grass. Because grass is what evolved to grow there.

The cow eats the grass. The sheep eats the grass.

Your stomach cannot eat the grass.

Take the ruminants off and the food production from that land becomes zero.

Not lower.

Zero.

The ruminant is not blocking a better option.

The ruminant is the only option.

The activist who wants the ruminant removed is not reducing meat consumption.

He is outsourcing it. To Brazilian feedlots on cleared rainforest, shipped six thousand miles in a refrigerated container.

The British hill goes to bracken.

The Amazon goes to soy.

The supermarket label changes from Hereford to Mato Grosso.

This is presented as the ethical position.

It is the most expensively packaged self-deception in modern politics.

[Alan West @MallingLleyn]

A mincer, very useful for mincing leftovers from the Sunday joint for a cottage pie or similar. Our was a Spong.

[Sweet Nector @sweet_nector1]

People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is?