Nicola Naylor

Thoroughbred breeder,Horseracing,sports Sales/Marketing.NOMINATIONS for @HarbourLaw GROUP 1, CLASSIC WINNER 1st season sire 2019 @BatsfordStud 07812 654736 🇬🇧

[Nicola Naylor @Readswoodstud]

#DanonBallade 🇯🇵 by #DeepImpact Sire of Sires #Agent @Readswoodstud Standing @batsfordstud 🇬🇧 on behalf of @T_Bloodstock 🇹🇷 @rpbloodstock @theTDN @bloodstocknews

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Victoria Atkins @VictoriaAtkins]

🚨We must save the Dartmoor Ponies from Starmer’s & Natural England’s cull.

[Victoria Atkins @VictoriaAtkins]

What is the budget for SFI @EmmaforWycombe?! Farmers need to plan!

Just more dither and delay from this sloth-like DEFRA department. 😤

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies.

Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years.

A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The big question in all of this is why were these messages between Darren Jones and Peter Mandelson not released on Monday alongside all the other Humble Address documents?

The Humble Address is clear that "electronic communications… between Lord Mandelson and ministers… during his time as Ambassador" must be released to Parliament - that is exactly what these messages between Darren Jones and Peter Mandelson are.

The Cabinet Office, which Darren Jones is in charge of, oversees this process, and it is beginning to look as though that department cannot be trusted to make politically sensitive decisions.

In my mind, we now need an independent third party, not subject to the pressures of the Government, to review this matter.

The most natural option would be for the National Audit Office to look at this. When I was chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the NAO had access to every single document in government no matter how highly classified.

The NAO could review the information and documents the Government holds and provide reassurance that the demands of the Humble Address are being properly complied with.

https://t.co/BXZKw3DoyR

[Nicola Naylor @Readswoodstud]

@hillsgreenHQ

[Oxford Farming Conference @oxfordfarming]

"The OFC has supported me by including my voice as a young person & empowering me as an individual.
If I were to sum up this year’s OFC in three words, it would be “inclusive”, “honest” “professional”."
Bursary recipient Joss Naylor.
Full reflection👉🏻 https://t.co/CcJI9LIpJV

[Nicola Naylor @Readswoodstud]

@jo55ss

[Oxford Farming Conference @oxfordfarming]

"The OFC has supported me by including my voice as a young person & empowering me as an individual.
If I were to sum up this year’s OFC in three words, it would be “inclusive”, “honest” “professional”."
Bursary recipient Joss Naylor.
Full reflection👉🏻 https://t.co/CcJI9LIpJV

[Oxford Farming Conference @oxfordfarming]

"The OFC has supported me by including my voice as a young person & empowering me as an individual.
If I were to sum up this year’s OFC in three words, it would be “inclusive”, “honest” “professional”."
Bursary recipient Joss Naylor.
Full reflection👉🏻 https://t.co/CcJI9LIpJV

[Becky Argyle @ArgyleBecky]

An unbelievable coincidence that both Labour cabinet office minister and barrister Nick Thomas-Symonds phone was stolen & five days later Morgan McSweeney’s phone was also stolen. Conveniently their messages to and from Mandelson have gone. I don’t believe Labour coincidences.

[Robbie🐾🐾 @RobMclovin1]

Nicola Sturgeon leaving her house whilst her husband is in Edinburgh High Court for embezzling £460000 today. She apparently knew nothing!

[Nicola Naylor @Readswoodstud]

@MichaelLCrick @quevega There is no way he could pass this kind of spending of as earnings from his Onlyfans account. Maybe I’m missing something?

[Nicola Naylor @Readswoodstud]

@JeremyClarkson I don’t think you wanted to offend farmers, did you ?
I can tell you your Sunday Farm Fest performance (if intentional) was a total disgrace, I’ve never felt so bad for so many farmers. People making an effort to support you, so you could show genuine feeling

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Unemployment is now 5% and only half of under-25s are in paid employment.

Every Labour leadership contender should have a coherent answer to how we can reverse these trends and avoid creating a lost generation of young people.

Today's @thetimes column👇
https://t.co/Bnli5IcVry

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Food inflation at the till, deflation at the farm gate ☹️

We need a government that understands where food comes from and enforces supply chain fairness, so consumers get value and producers aren’t the punchbag

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Thank you Daily Express who using correct language 👏🏻

[Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp]

“Jon” nailed it earlier on @NickFerrariLBC

“She’s clueless with economics, honestly Nick it boils my p💦”

“Farmers are already on their knees”

“They’re (gov coiffeurs) taking in extra excise, VAT (£20M PER DAY)”

“She could take the sting out”

Amen

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

JUST ANNOUNCED: Former Mayor of Wigan @Winstamike has been selected as the Conservative Candidate for the Makerfield by-election.

[Victoria Atkins @VictoriaAtkins]

Labour isn’t working

Unemployment is rising, youth unemployment is climbing and job vacancies have fallen to their lowest level in five years.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Our plan to cut business rates for thousands of high street businesses alongside our Get Britain Working Bill would turn things around and help get people back into work.

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

Glad to see Claire Coutinho destroying Ed Miliband.

Labour lied for power and have been increasing the cost of living since.

Broken promises, higher bills, higher taxes, jobs destroyed.