Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales

Director for Wales at the Countryside Alliance. Views here mine.

[Mo Metcalf-Fisher @mometfisher]

Pleased to see our @CAupdates president Ann Mallalieu making her Clarkson’s Farm debut…💪🇬🇧

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

“Whoever is in charge of the Labour Party when the music stops needs to deliver the change that was promised in 2024. A change from the arrogant assumption that government knows what is best for the countryside” writes @ca_timb https://t.co/p9uDsLAexG

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

Don’t miss this⬇️

[Countryside Alliance Press Office @CApressoffice]

Fantastic news! Well done Hawkstone Farmers!

[Mo Metcalf-Fisher @mometfisher]

Amazing news. Excellent work!

Further proof that public support for our farmers is strong. Foolish to pick fights with the men and women that produce our food.

Hawkstone Farmers Choir is declared Britain's Got Talent winner | Metro News https://t.co/qc5CrZUGkG

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

A huge response to this recent programme! We spent the day meeting men and women who depend on trail hunting for their livelihoods.

Since the programme aired on GB News yesterday, lots of people have responded to oppose the government’s proposed ban on the activity. Thank you!

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

Thank you to everybody that has responded to this important story by completing our e-lobby in the last 24 hours 👏

People can see the government’s toxic culture war against rural people for what it is: a distraction.

You too can oppose the ban. It takes seconds. Link below⬇️

[Countryside Alliance Press Office @CApressoffice]

“You just look at the village itself, we’ve got no school left, we’ve got no shop. We’re the only local pub still surviving, and we’ve got the hunt, which is a social gathering. We’re like the last man standing”.

An important watch⬇️ https://t.co/QedzRxXmJH

[Mo Metcalf-Fisher @mometfisher]

Hold on, do you think it’s fair farmers (as they currently do) have to foot the eye-wateringly high bill for fly-tipping on their land? Are you suggesting farmers want waste dumped all over the land they care for in order to feed us?

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

@GBNEWS @CApressoffice @annarileynews Great piece well done @GBNEWS

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

Trail hunting contributes £100 million annually to the UK's rural economy. It brings many communities together. Sadly, all that is at risk.

Rather than pursue a toxic culture war against rural people, the government should focus on delivering for the countryside and its people.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Trail hunting was introduced after the Hunting Act 2004 as an alternative to fox hunting. Labour pledged to ban the practice in its 2024 manifesto, but organisations are now lobbying MPs to oppose the move, warning it could put 1,000 rural jobs at risk.

@annarileynews

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

Amazing news! Well done to all involved 🚜 🥳

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

GET READY TO VOTE!! Here come @hawkstonechoir on @BGT !!! They have done so much to raise awareness of mental health problems within the farming sector, and they can sing too! Pob lwc!! Best of luck!!!

[Countryside Alliance @CAupdates]

📢“Leave the countryside alone!”.

The government seems obsessed with picking on rural people to distract from real problems: from farmers, to those in hunt service, gamekeepers and rural businesses⬇️

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar has called on the Auditor General for Wales to investigate concerns about the finances of renewable energy company Bute Energy and its parent company Windward Energy ✍️@ShiptonMartin https://t.co/bKTMQi1NXm

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

@Owain2026 Speaking from personal experience I don’t think they grasped the shortage of qualified nursery staff. Two local nurseries have been advertising for months. The essential trained workforce just isn’t there, and they need the suitable premises, most around here are already full.

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

Do you remember this farmer singing the Welsh anthem? Well he’s only gone and made it to be in the @hawkstonechoir who are in Saturday nights @BGT semi’s! Please support by voting for them, they are doing a great job raising awareness about mental health in the farming sector.

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

And this is how you end a Welsh farming protest at the Senedd, with a singing Welsh sheep farmer 👌

[Nick Herbert @nickherbertcbe]

The job of government is to improve people’s lives, not to behave like new puritans telling everyone what they can and cannot do — my speech in the @UKHouseofLords on the assault on rural communities

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

@emlynevan @Longlivethehunt Food security is absolutely on my agenda, something we have made noises about for some time. Now it is time to act.

[Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales @CAevs]

Plaid Cymru promised a “rural reset” ahead of the election - now comes the important part: delivering for rural Wales.

I’m looking forward to working with the new Welsh Government and Senedd members from all parties to ensure rural communities can thrive.