D-Fens

When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. Say something once...why say it again?

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If you must write prose & poems
The words you use should be you're own
Don't plagiarise, or take on loan

D-Fens (2018)

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@piersmorgan @Cristiano Your football posts sound like a 15 year old is writing them. It's very odd

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@UKLabour Wonder if she will see the job through, or bail out mid term

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@KEdge23 Narcissism

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@Moonbae222 Google how old is the earth

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@Ryder56004614 And at the same time the UK was and remains a favoured country to emigrate to

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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Petrifying

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@tds122 Posts like this are always good at engaging a critical debate, well done

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@NotFarLeftAtAll Britain's thickest Prime Minister more like

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Across Britain right now, farmers are shearing their sheep, bagging up the wool, and burning it. Some bury it. Some leave it to rot in a corner of the field. The wool-burning has made the odd headline as a protest, but the truth is duller and sadder. The fleece is worth less than the diesel it would take to haul it to the depot.

The numbers are grim. In recent years a kilo of British wool has fetched somewhere between twenty and sixty pence, and hill breeds like Swaledale and Welsh Mountain sank as low as ten. A whole fleece off a mountain ewe might bring thirty pence. Shearing that same ewe costs the farmer around two pounds. One Lincolnshire farmer added it up out loud: over three pounds to shear and cart a single fleece to the depot, and twenty-six pence back. So she burns them. A great many do.

Here is the part that stings. The shearing still has to happen, every year, whatever the wool will fetch. A sheep left in full fleece overheats, struggles to move, and gets eaten alive by maggots. So the job carries on purely as welfare, a cost the farmer simply eats to spare the animal, with the wool itself going on the fire straight after.

And think about what this fibre once was. For centuries wool was the engine of the English economy, the country's greatest export and the crown's main source of tax. It raised the soaring wool churches of the Cotswolds. It turned merchants into princes. To this day, whoever presides over the House of Lords sits on the Woolsack, a literal cushion of wool, put there in the fourteenth century so nobody would forget where the nation's wealth began.

Prices have lifted off the floor this past year, the first real relief in a long while. It still does not cover the shears for a hill farmer. The fibre that built England now smoulders in a heap behind the barn, and almost nobody notices the smoke.

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@MartinKnight_ Clearly a much better actor then

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@TheRealJamieKay Policing. It would pay dividends that could be reinvested

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@PeterStefanovi2 Well they weren't there for him when it mattered, so guessing this was just waffle

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@AvonandsomerRob Outside of the North tax

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@DailyMail We've hit rock bottom

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@PolitlcsUK Not a loyal colleague amongst them

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@DavidLammy Well with friends like you, who needs enemies?

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@GordonBrown I do feel some sympathy for Starmer; he has been the biggest failure of all time, but it wasn't all his own making - you can't build a silk purse from a sow's ear

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@Perky_43 The country has hit rock bottom

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@msloobylou Andy kept swapping dad's until he found one he could beat

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@benonwine Failing to get Saville behind bars