Mark Stanton ⬅️

Work hard, relax at weekends likes going on holiday, luvs Andrea, AVFC nut, enjoy golf & motorsport -

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@danbardell Hearing that one of our finest players Gordon Sidney Cowans has serious health issues over recent years 😔😔

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

His father once told him, “Son, farming is in your blood.” 🌾

He believed it with everything he had.

At 26 he took over the family farm — young, hopeful, and ready to work harder than anyone who came before him.

He kept that promise for fifteen years.
Now he’s 41 and looks a decade older.

His hands are split and calloused from the cold. His back seizes up every morning before the day even starts. He’s missed birthdays, school plays, family dinners and anniversaries that can never be replayed.

Every Sunday night his wife does the accounts at the kitchen table.
Last Sunday she sat there for a long time without speaking.

Then she looked up.

“We’re forty thousand pounds down this year.”

After fifteen years of early mornings and late nights, diesel has doubled, fertiliser is up 60%, electricity has tripled… and the price he receives for his wheat is almost exactly what it was in 2015.

He is not lazy.
He is not incompetent.
He is not failing.

The system is failing him.
And every Sunday night his wife still sits at that same table, staring at numbers that only ever seem to get worse.

How long before Britain loses an entire generation of farmers who simply can’t afford to carry on?

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Can someone explain to me who chose Andy Burnham to be British Prime Minister? He wasn’t even an MP. He was given a seat and being crowned immediately as PM. This is absolute proof that the electorate are of zero relevance in this country. Anyone who still believes Britain is a democracy is extremely naive.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

We are in a very dark place. The football World Cup is on & this council has spent tax payers money going to court to make it illegal to fly Our flag on Our streets.

[marty 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @martymitch_]

@TRobinsonNewEra @AndyBurnhamGM @UKLabour

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@The_Forty_Four 1970

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@swaincomms @UGLE_GrandLodge @WorcsMasons It was an excellent day, and certainly hotter than last year

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@frankbrunoboxer Good on ya Frank, proper common-sense, sadly its not something any politician from any party understands 🙄🤔

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Cheers to that!🍻

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@WHW_HighlandIC Two Series. First, being The World at War when first aired in the 70's. Second was Colditz TV series 👍

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

It's 30°C in parts of Britain today. And the animals are struggling.☀️

Dairy cows in Cumbria are drinking twice as much water.
Milk yields are dropping.
Farmers are out there at 3am moving livestock to shade.

This isn't just a heatwave. This is another challenge for British farming.

The Irish government has already issued guidance - no transporting animals in the hottest part of the day.
What has the UK government said? Nothing new.

East of England just had one of the driest Aprils on record.
Crops already planted are failing.
This current hot spell is making everything worse.

A Lincolnshire arable farmer told the BBC his wheat is suffering.
That wheat becomes your bread.
Your pasta.
Your breakfast cereal.

One more week of this and thousands of acres of British crops will be written off.

Temperatures are rising. So are costs.
More water for livestock.
More diesel for ventilation.
More stress on the farmer.

The weather is getting harder. The government is getting quieter.

This isn’t to scaremonger, and it’s nothing British farmers haven’t weathered before (excuse the pun), just an opportunity to ask the question…

Is anyone in Westminster paying attention to what 32°C means for your food?

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@RupertLowe10 It's OK as long as majority hopefully vote restore, however, issue is with both restore and reform standing, it could easily split the vote and allow Labour in with a lower vote count 😔😔

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@StanCollymore Total lack of effort..... just grab a claret polo shirt and whack a badge on it 😔😔🙄🙄

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@AVFCOfficial Great advert 👍👍 zero effort with regard to shirt design 😔😔 should have consulted Luke Clothing 😕😉

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@almurray Beer anyone 🤣🤣

[Mark Stanton ⬅️ @Mark_A_Stanton]

@almurray Still aching from laughing..... never met a Stan before 🤣🤣👍

[John @JKavfc1874]

How have I only just seen this?!!? #avfc #utv #uel