£240m…….. That’s the entire new SFI budget Defra reckons Britain’s farmers are worth, and Window 1 will be gone in minutes.
Defra’s own payroll? £1.8bn a year. Over seven times more spent on the staff than on the farmers actually growing the food.
So here’s a real saving Labour, scrap Defra altogether. Sack the lot, bank the billions, and drop the pretence any of this was ever about backing British farming.
£240m says you were never serious ☹️
@reformparty_uk@UKLabour@TheFarmingForum@agricontract@loosecollie@wheat_daddy
“Let me be clear…I broke numerous promises. I invented a £22 billion black hole to punish pensioners, farmers, the disabled, small businesses and students. I tried to give away Chagos and pay £35 billion to do so. I increased unemployment. I increased the government deficit. I appointed Peter Mandelson despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein having already been published in various media outlets. I promised to cut energy bills and council tax, but instead, the opposite happened. I did absolutely nothing to resolve the cost of living crisis and made it worse by increasing the tax burden to record levels. I prioritised hanging out with the Davos / BlackRock clique rather than genuinely ‘fixing the foundations’. I promised a ‘transparency revolution’, but instead, operated under smoke and mirrors and sacked colleagues and threatened suspending Labour MPs who voted against me. I spaffed £30 billion away on carbon capture machines. I failed to sort out the small boats / hotels for illegal immigrants. £3 billion a year to Ukraine and big hugs from Volodymyr. I smeared anyone who dared to criticise me a ‘far-right’. I sanctimoniously lectured everyone like they were naughty children. And I have absolutely no intention of resigning after disastrous local election results because I am right and everyone else is wrong. Me first. Country second.”
We had our taste of diversity in the countryside last week. A ewe had her throat slit in the field by two 'brown foreigners'. They were disturbed and fled, leaving the ewe to bleed out, her two orphaned lambs by her side.
We'd shoot dogs that did that.
🚨BREAKING: KEIR STARMER APPROVAL RATING DROPS TO NET -46% HIS LOWEST SCORE EVER
He has broken the record for LOWEST SCORE in history
He has achieved this in just 554 days
The British people REJECT HIM
It's time for a General Election
I want to know where the Green Party stands on halal slaughter.
A party of ‘animal-lovers’ happy to see hundreds of millions of animals bleed to death in unimaginable pain? Surely not?!
My position is clear.
Halal slaughter, and ALL non-stun slaughter, should be banned.
🚨🇫🇷 Meanwhile in France
Farmers refuse a confrontation & choose to sing and unite in front of Police & the Army instead.
When Politicians declare Farmers as their enemy and deploy the Military against the people who grow everyone food, then they’re probably not working in the interests of the people anymore.
So hang on, last Wednesday the Met Police didn’t allow British farmers to bring their tractors because it could “result in serious disruption”.
However, they have no issue with Palestine protesters disrupting central London. Including setting off fireworks.
Two-tier policing.
Reeves dumps the big pile of shite on the doorstep of every small business in Britain, then just forgets about it and moves on with her life. Salary safe, job safe. No concerns about paying the bills in the Reeves household, or indeed any of the civil servants who devised this skip fire of a budget.
They don’t care. They don’t understand, but more important they just don’t care.
Straight out of university, work for some anonymous Labour MP, maybe a think tank or a charity if we’re feeling adventurous. Then straight into life as a backbench MP or some random civil servant in the Treasury. How many have run a business? Created wealth? Generated jobs? Done anything?! SOD ALL.
It’s easy looking at the spreadsheets. Thinking oh a dividend rate rise here, or freezing that threshold - that’ll cover the numbers needed to hike up welfare. There are VERY real world consequences to all of these decisions.
Businesses are still reeling from the NI changes last year. And I mean reeling. Not enormous businesses had to find £300k? Possibly more to cover these rises?
What happens then, Rachel?
Costs get passed on. Contracts stall. Hiring cancelled. Investment paused. It grinds the economy to a halt. Businesses stop spending money. Redundancies. OBVIOUSLY.
How can they not understand this? Honestly? I cannot fathom the sheer vastness of their incompetence. All of this to fund those who choose not to work. Leaves a real sour taste in the mouth, doesn’t it?
Running a business is hard work, bloody hard work. It doesn’t just happen, and it doesn’t just work. It takes years of long days and sleepless nights. All that, with lots and lots of risk. There is no backup or a safety net. It works, or it doesn’t work. It’s brutal. I’m sorry to say that the vast majority of my MP colleagues simply do not understand that.
It is overwhelmingly depressing.
The ONLY way to get the economy firing is to reduce tax, reduce the size of the state and let businesses do what they do best - make money.
And actually, if you let them keep more of it? They’ll do more. Work more. Pay more tax.
THAT is how you grow the economy. That is the ONLY way.
One VERY important point today - there is no such thing as Government money.
It is my money. YOUR money. OUR money.
Stolen in increasing amounts, every year. With crumbs returned, and we're expected to be grateful?
The Government funds nothing, the taxpayer funds everything.
'I cannot believe that we cannot protest rightfully. You get all of these other radical people - we've never caused any problem.'
Farmers respond to the Met Police's last minute restrictions on their planned protest in London, on Budget day tomorrow.
Govt has blocked release of a joint intelligence committee report into the dire national security impacts expected from biodiversity loss. Was going to be announced at an event with the King this week
https://t.co/0c79oiGUMF
“Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £500million this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”
Would Govt. prefer us to sell the workshop, yard, offices, stock or staff room to pay the ludicrous BPR IHT if my mum dies?
45 years of unimaginable graft, risk, sacrifice (& paying taxes) - but then shafted simply because we run a good family business & provide good stable jobs.