Mark Rutherford

time passes, memories never fade

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@thejamieherd You ok?

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@DKSportsbook 18 games.
1st bye between games 3 and 10.
2nd bye after game 13. Spilt over 2 weeks. All AFC games one week all NFC games the other.

No 1st round bye for #1 seed. Homefield through playoffs still a incentive.

All Players except QB, O-line and kickers limited to 17 games

[Oleksandr Usyk @usykaa]

I’m proud of you @heraskevych, for your courage and bravery. The helmet with portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes is a tribute, not a rule violation!

Sport doesn’t mean forgetting. True strength is having the courage to remain human, even in the toughest times🇺🇦

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@heraskevych A real Hero

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Це ціна нашої гідності.
This is price of our dignity.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If cattle are causing climate catastrophe, explain the Serengeti. 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, thousands of buffalo, countless other ruminants. All producing methane. All grazing. All part of the most biodiverse ecosystem on Earth.

The planet's systems evolved to handle this. Grasslands and grazers co-evolved over millions of years. The methane from ruminants is part of a biogenic cycle that breaks down in 12 years back to CO2 that grass absorbed six months ago. No net accumulation.

What the planet didn't evolve to handle is burning fossil fuels that add carbon from 300 million years ago into the current atmosphere. That's new carbon. That accumulates. That's the actual problem.

But attacking fossil fuels means confronting the entire industrial economy. Attacking cattle means you can sell plant-based burgers and feel like you're saving the world while changing nothing structural.

The Serengeti has maintained itself for millions of years with more ruminants per square kilometre than any cattle ranch on Earth. If ruminant methane was catastrophic, this wouldn't be possible. The grass wouldn't grow. The ecosystem would collapse. But it thrives because this is exactly what these systems evolved to do.

Cattle are part of the same natural cycle. They're not adding new carbon. They're recycling carbon that was atmospheric six months ago and will be atmospheric again in 12 years. It's a loop, not a leak.

But facts don't sell Impossible Burgers, so here we are.

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@thejamieherd #plasticfan

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

Some people genuinely believe business owners shouldn’t get any tax incentives above PAYE employees.

As if the person who takes zero risk, has no money invested, gets holiday pay, sick pay, a pension, protections, and guaranteed wages should be treated the same as the person who puts everything on the line with no safety net at all.

Running a business means years of uncertainty, sleepless nights, personal sacrifice, missed time with family, no days off, no benefits, no guaranteed income, and the very real chance of losing everything.

Meanwhile, someone with a stable job turns up, does their contracted hours, and money lands in their account every month like clockwork.

And they think the rewards should be identical?

This entitlement mentality is exactly why Britain is hostile to entrepreneurs.

If you want jobs, innovation, and growth, you reward the people who create them, not pretend they’re the same as employees who carry none of the risk.

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@brendonboshell @PolitlcsUK @YouGov Probably train drivers

[June Slater @juneslater17]

The future under the uniparty
No dogs, cut trees down to make way for solar farms,
Stop growing food and rearing livestock,
Sell your car , don't eat meat, stop going abroad, don't drink, smoke, ban wood burners, social housing to go to newcomers first , tax tax and more tax, fines fines fines. Increase energy bills,
Filthy hospitals whilst money is wasted on management,
Stop the winter fuel allowance for pensioners, dnrs ant any decker that goes to hospital ...
This the bleakest time for decades and there's just no need for it!

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@RachelReevesMP You are also for destroying the national food security and in doing so, putting every person in Britain in danger

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@OliverRyanUK The very countryside your party is trying to destroy. The great British countryside only looks so beautiful because of generation upon generation of family farmers giving their lives to it. Something you are destroying

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@Keir_Starmer "sending a special thank you to all those who are working" except family farmers who will be going out of business by the 1000's

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Before enjoying their Christmas dinner, Labour MPs should think long and hard about where that food actually comes from.

It didn't magically appear in Waitrose, or whatever vegan market they shop in - it was grown by British farmers, on British farms.

Those same farming families will soon be forced to sell their farm as a direct result of the changes being brought in by Labour. Who buys it up? Big multinationals, who care nothing for the land or our food security.

Farmers love their farms, and care for the land in a way nobody else could. I love my farm, it's my passion. If farmers go, the countryside we all love goes with them.

I still see people in the media, even MPs, failing to understand. Either they're doing so deliberately, or they're just thick.

The farm is only worth something once it's SOLD. Actual returns from farming are pitiful compared to the value of the land. If you're going to whack a bill on these grieving families based on what the farm is worth, they CAN'T pay it. They'll have to sell. How on earth do people not understand this?

The impact of these changes may not be felt by the wider population next Christmas, or the one after that - but once significant numbers of farmers pass away, the British farming community will be changed forever.

Farming is a very lonely business. Up early, out all day, often with just your own thoughts. All to scrape a living, in the hope that one day you can pass your farm down to your children - just as your parents did for you. That's the whole point. That's why farmers do what they do.

Labour have snatched that dream away from thousands of farming families. I certainly won't forgive them, and the British farming community won't either.

Take a moment this Christmas to think about where your food comes from, the work that goes into providing it, and who is behind all of that.

British farmers, on British farms.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Wouldn't it be fantastic to have a farming minister who has actually farmed? Or a business minister who has run a business? A teacher as education secretary?

Individuals with ANY relevant experience, instead of boring robotic career politicians.

Our system of Government STINKS.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Labour can find £11.6bn for overseas climate aid, £22bn for carbon capture, £8.5bn for GB Energy, £9bn on public sector pay rises, and billions for Net Zero.

But refuse to find £1.4bn for pensioners and will tax farmers out of existence for just £500m.

It's frankly a disgrace.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"When inheritance tax comes upon an estate, the best thing to do very often is to flog off bits of it.

"To big corporates. To private equity.

"So you see a scrubbing out of family farming across the whole of the country."

Lib Dems Tim Farron on Labour's IHT.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

The problem with farming, as with so many things, is that we seem incapable of nuance in Britain.

The issue isn't the value of real farms doing real farming, no matter how high their notional paper asset value. None of them are coining it. Not at the ridiculously low rates of return they operate at. Theirs is a thankless task for very little money in their own pockets.

The problem is all the non-farmers abusing the IHT by cloaking themselves as farmers.

A proper sensible fix would be to learn to distinguish the two groups much more clearly, and come down like a tonne of bricks on the latter while fully protecting the former.

But that would take effort and joined-up thinking, not to mention understanding the real situation in the first place.

Far easier to vilify all farmers and spank them across the board. Point the finger at enough people exploiting the system while pretending they are exemplars rather than exceptions, and the public will end up cheering you on.

Meanwhile the real proper genuine bonafide family farms will disappear one by one, usually without a fuss or anyone other than their neighbours noticing. While in the aggregate, our food security strides towards the precipice.

All because government bean counters refuse to lift a finger to distinguish between people actually farming and people stockpiling agricultural land.

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@joedeleone Crush the 17 hash browns in the first 2 hours. Go sit in ball pit and eat apple slices. Will be done in 4-5 hours max

[Mark Rutherford @markrud1]

@JFGC17 @SteezyyTommyy @tweetforAnna @visegrad24 Dune