Peter Smith

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[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem

and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies"

says her plan to "securitize them" and "supervise them"

They're coming for your savings, Europe.

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

If a food chain opened up bakeries without using Folic Acid they’d make a fortune.

Come on someone let’s show these businesses that we don’t want Folic acid in our foods.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

By the grace of God I have three sons three daughters one grandson and four granddaughters. Andy Burnham will not take a single one of them for his clapped out Airfix-glued together armed forces in a NATO War against Russia. That’s a promise. No to NATO No to War. No Conscription. @WorkersPartyGB

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: Alice Weidel of the AfD has said Germany's borders will be closed and if the EU doesn't close its borders then Germany will WITHDRAW from SCHENGEN

The EU project is finished

Patriots are taking over Europe

[June Slater @juneslater17]

So the multimillionaire celebrity 'maffs' girl from Countdown fame
has written to Clacton voters urging them to vote for Count Bin Face .

Nothing says I understand your needs more than a wealthy Champaign socialist telling people with struggling businesses, soaring mortgages and rents, empty BnBs, HMOs with male migrants disturbing the neighbourhoods, kids have no jobs to go to and the cost of staff, wages, business rates and other taxes are crushing society.

but

Our Carol wants to plead with you to vote for a man dressed as a bin, BBC comedy writer who hates Brexit and wants to rejoin the EU
Clacton voted 70% Leave
🤦🤦🤦🤦

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Discarded wind turbine blades in Sweetwater, Texas.

Not exactly environmentally sustainable.

[Voice of Reason @brexitblog_info]

“Revealed: Mandarin who runs No10 North lives in £2.2million townhouse in trendy Islington, commutes by train to Manchester and stays in luxury hotel with 23rd floor bar and a pool”

No.10 North is a grotesque waste of taxpayers’ money.

Scrap it now. https://t.co/BHo7cIS6Th

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The 1976 UK summer heatwave was one of the most prolonged periods of high temperatures in British history. But no one blamed cow farts and the weather maps certainly didn’t look like a volcano had erupted over Britain.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson runs at least eight businesses off a thousand acres in Oxfordshire. Seven of them make money.

Count them. A farm shop. A pub. A lager brand. A bestselling book every autumn. A streaming series. A merchandise range. And now an app, built by Lisa Hogan, connecting the public to farms.

Then the eighth. Growing food.

Year one, working the ground flat out: £144. By year six, a £5,000 loss where £37,000 had been projected. This summer, two hundred of those acres grew nothing at all, because putting wheat in them was a guaranteed loss before the drill left the shed.

Every enterprise on that farm turns a profit except the farming.

The lager tells you why, and the chain of cause is on the record. Government subsidies were falling, so in 2021 he decided to brew beer from his own barley. That is the entire origin of Hawkstone. A decision taken in Whitehall turned an arable farmer into a brewer, and the beer worked.

Nothing about the grain changed. Barley sold as barley goes at whatever the buyer offers that morning. Barley in a bottle goes at the price the man who grew it decides.

That one difference is the whole business.

The pub is the same move in bricks. A derelict barn nobody had wanted since 2013, bought for reportedly under a million, now with a queue. On the menu a sausage from his own pigs costs 74p against 18p for the imported version, and he absorbs that gap on every plate. The farm shop, meanwhile, is legally barred from selling food produced more than sixteen miles away, and still cannot keep up with demand.

Now look at what the farming has behind it that yours does not. One of the best land agents in England. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. An agronomist. A production company covering the costs. A queue down the lane. A name that sells anything it is printed on.

It loses money anyway.

And this is the ordinary arrangement, not an eccentric one. Defra's own figures say 72 percent of farms in England now take income from something that is not farming, and diversification accounts for 31 percent of total farm income. The government's own Batters Review found nearly a third of British farms were loss-making outright in 2024.

Diddly Squat is simply the loudest version. The shop subsidises the field. The pub subsidises the field. The television subsidises the field.

A thousand acres of English farmland, and the one thing it cannot do is pay for itself by producing food.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

"Even I was shocked at the scale of the subsidies that are energy and net zero related. I added them all up and got to £328 billion. That's the equivalent of 3 HS2s.”

- David Turver @7Kiwi - Consultant, CIO / Project Management Professional.

[Peter Smith @lifeoutsideEU]

@afneil It's so annoying that Milliewhatt and the the others in parliament of the same view are quick to say it's our fight , but they and their family won't be at danger. Also before committing the UK to anything in wars they should ask the country and they know it would be a NO !!

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

Answer me this.

Petrol in my Tesco has risen sharply in the last week. It's now £1.59 a litre.
Oil is currently 81 dollars a barrel.

In 2010, the average oil price was 80 dollars a barrel and petrol was between £1.17 and £1.22 a litre.

Are we being ripped off?

[Peter Smith @lifeoutsideEU]

@ArturNadol7566 @sharmilaxx Tip of a iceberg I would suspect!

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

I’m so glad I don’t work anymore because back in the day we didn’t have all this woke nonsense, you could say whatever you wanted & nobody took offence.

People had different opinions but you all got on with it & nobody cared.

It must be awful now to have to work in environments where you have to watch everything you say so as not to upset anyone.

I wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes because I say what I think.

Back then everyone just accepted it & got on with it.

What a weird world we now live in.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Thank you Ed Miliband for giving us the most expensive energy costs in the developed world.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKING NEWS! 1,006 illigal Migrants have arrived on British Shores in 4 days & NOT ONE has been ‘Detained’ the Telegraph reported today that it’s possible Iranian Terrorists may be using this as a ruse to enter Britain along with Murderers Rapists & others wishing us harm! CLOSE OUR FUCKING BORDERS!!🤷‍♂️🙄🤬

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They are invading just as surely as a conventional army would, but slow enough to avoid triggering an armed defense by Britain

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

So Andy Burnham (who is not even the PM) will go ahead with the Chagos fiasco.

What normal people would hand over something that belongs to them for free then lease it back at the cost of
£35billion to the taxpayer 🤔

And yet they have the nerve to say the triple lock is unsustainable.

We are living in a Clown World 🤡

[Peter Smith @lifeoutsideEU]

@FarmingUK Super markets need to cut their profits and give more to the farmer's.

[Peter Smith @lifeoutsideEU]

@chatswithem I've flown down to the canaries many times and never seen cloud formation like this time they looked like a ploughed field for many many miles