@DFletcherSport Darren Fletcher has vomited anti Spurs stats throughout this entire game so far. Constantly repeating minutes without a goal and lack of wins at home. Villa barely a mention.
Jeremy Clarkson lets slip a number on Clarkson's Farm that explains almost everything wrong with British food. A sausage from his own pigs costs 74p. The identical sausage made from imported pig meat costs 18p.
Most people hear that and assume the foreign farmer is simply better at it.
Britain outlawed the sow stall in 1999, alone in Europe bar Sweden, because the public here decided a pregnant animal ought to be able to turn around. The national pig herd then fell by roughly half.
British people did not eat half as much bacon.
Work out where the difference went. Twenty-seven years on, the National Pig Association reckons around 95 percent of the countries selling pork into Britain still permit the stall. Most of the EU allows four weeks of every cycle. Much of America allows the full sixteen-week gestation. Brazil allows it outright.
The sow was never spared. She was moved abroad, into a shed with looser rules and no British inspector, and the farm that would have kept her shut its gate.
Now watch the same thing happen to beef and lamb, on a far bigger scale.
British beef is grass. Native cattle standing out in the rain on ground that grows nothing else, doing what they have done on those hills since before the language was written down. What the NFU says we are being asked to compete against is a feedlot finishing up to 50,000 head on one site, which it called unacceptable here on both moral and environmental grounds.
The deals were signed anyway. Australian and New Zealand beef rises to a quota of 110,000 tonnes by 2033, and after that there is no tariff at all. Lamb runs to 60,000 tonnes this year and climbs from there, and we already import between a quarter and a third of what we eat.
Every one of those deals was announced with a firm assurance that food standards would not fall. That assurance is true, and it is beside the point.
The standards enforced at our border cover what is in the meat. Hormones stay banned, and rightly. What crosses untouched is how the animal lived. There is no border check for a feedlot, no tariff on a gestation crate, no form anywhere asking whether the thing we made illegal here was used to make the thing arriving here.
So a minister can say food standards are protected and back British farming in the same breath, and be telling the truth twice, while signing the document that finishes the job.
The pattern runs through the lot. Barren cages banned here in 2012, egg products still arriving from countries that use them. Force-feeding outlawed in 2007, foie gras on sale every Christmas.
And the campaigners who won those bans never once came back to see what happened next, because the victory was legislative and the consequence was six thousand miles away. Nobody counts sows in Iowa. Nobody films a feedlot in Queensland.
Clarkson absorbs that 56p on every plate that leaves his kitchen, on television, which is the only reason anybody can see the number at all. Inside a supermarket price it has been invisible for a quarter of a century.
Fifty-six pence is what this country charges a man for obeying it.
He is not competing with foreign farmers. He is competing with his own ban, on a shelf, standing next to the version of himself he was forbidden from being.
What has the BBC ever done for me? Taken our money and used it to make adverts for the BBC that show they still cant help but waste money, followed by a QR code and pundits telling us to pay the fee?
@bensonrecon They invited that loss with open arms. Trouble is, the manager got away with parking the bus in previous games and a decent team was always going to punish us
@ppjmillard@BBCBreaking On the 66s you have to acknowledge a yellow and red, if not within 4 seconds brakes apply. TPWS is the back up to this. I wonder if the signalling is effected by the hot weather, it expanded a relay and showed wrong aspect? Hopefully no fatalities and everyone fully recovers 🤞🏻
@ProTottenham I thought the first season we finished 17th would be the shot across the bow the board needed. Fans have done their bit by paying some of the highest ticketing prices in the league. Last 2 seasons have damaged the brand with huge potential losses. They have to step up now
Give it a rest.
Nobody on your front bench has ever run a business - you’re all lawyers, trade unionists and charity workers.
An entire front bench which is parasitic to real working people.
It’s no wonder you have utterly failed and everyone hates you.
You treat the money people work for like it’s yours to take and giveaway to whoever will vote for you.
Working people hate you.