Trying to make ends meet with Farming ATM along with SFI/CSS & our rural businesses including: https://nitter.cf/t.co/7fyIOvIqnd & self storage/units 😀
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And this is @EmmaforWycombe on fine form a year ago, not having any idea whatsoever what she’s talking about! And these people are in charge of our beloved Country, a complete fiasco 🤬
And this is why folks, the current Government doom loop continues for UK Agriculture... Welcome to the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs! 😩
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Ed, these idiots are utterly useless. Never risked a pound of their own money doing anything useful! Suckled at the teat of the state for ever in a day and hopelessly out of their depth. I wouldn’t employ any of them! Absolutely fuming 😡
I’m a farmer, food producer and employer. I work long hours, take financial risks and carry the responsibility of paying wages and keeping a business going.
Since when did creating jobs mean you stopped being a “working person”? @EmmaforWycombe
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These people are deeply stupid … Labour Minister Emma Reynolds says employers are NOT “working people”. They’re “companies”.
Oh Emma …99.9% of British businesses are SMEs, providing 60% of private sector jobs. And you just trashed them.
▪️95% of British businesses are MICROBUSINESSES. Ordinary people running shops, farms, cafés, building firms and family businesses. Working longer hours than their staff.
▪️ they take fewer holidays and have no guaranteed sick pay or maternity leave/paternity leave
▪️ Pay their staff even when customers haven’t paid them. I remember not paying myself. Often.
▪️ pay themselves LAST.
▪️ risk their own savings and homes through personal guarantees.
▪️ responsible for tax, regulations, pensions and employer’s NI.
▪️ company directors taking a salary, are on PAYE, just like their employees!
They take all the risk! What a stupid comment.
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Not the update video i was intending to do today but this has boiled me. These people are so far away from reality it’s mad. Hence the raw language but it adds emphasis. 🫣😡
Please share with your MPs just to try help them understand that business owners are not just sat in the holiday home watching escape to the country drinking wine and counting cash.
The irony, John Healey downs a pint, he was lucky to be served IMO! And this, despite everything he and his useless Government are doing to kill the entertainment/hospitality (any) business/industry! A complete disgrace..
Can anyone recommend a generator installation firm in the East Midlands that would install an 80kva (prime power) generator as well as a SmartGen controller panel & Auto Mains Fail (AMF) system?
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A civil servant who juggled 5 government jobs was awarded a permanent role by DEFRA despite being a “poor” performer, a court has heard. His manager at Defra, said: "I think in hindsight he was doing the bare minimum". IMO these people wouldn't get a job in the private sector! 😩
Completely agree and well done Harry. Unfortunately, these sort of sessions with Government & Accounts Committee reminds me of a best man’s wedding speech, everyone seems engaged at the time and the next day, they’ve forgotten everything..
Here's what I was up to yesterday. I was invited to speak on behalf of farmers on food security and the challenges facing farmers today.. @FarmersWeekly
Harry Metcalfe Harry's Farm Public Accounts Committee 12 10 26 16 42 56 youtu.be/8AdEJrOqm1g?si=VXMm… via @YouTube
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So Andy Burnham is said to be “rushing” through laws to scrap photo ID checks. This is frankly off the scale IMO & a complete insult to our beloved Country & the values we hold dear. This guy has not won a General Election & he introduces a controversial matter without a mandate!
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I am getting more & more baffled by some peoples sense of entitlement. Yesterday, we had dog walkers 'off piste' (despite signs) lads camping in a field & when politely pointing out the error of their ways, I am met with the psychological belief they are in the right.. 😩
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It does need to deliver, but not with these current clowns at the political wheel of our Country! The table needs tipping up completely & a fresh start to encourage all businesses to prosper & thrive, thus encouraging investment, which means businesses thrive off each other 💷🫡
Worst harvest in a generation, record fuel prices, disease pressure, and a funding window that lasted six hours. Food security is national security - the words are there, the policy needs to match. Increase the Annual Investment Allowance, sort SFI properly, and stop leaving family farms guessing. October Budget needs to deliver.
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Affecting shipping costs, businesses, tradesmen, farmers, haulage, quarries, housebuilding, construction, buses, trains the list goes on.. Refineries shut/closed, our resilience/storage of diesel at 42 days, our beloved Country is in a right old state. 😩
Sharply higher UK diesel costs would be disastrous. Diesel powers road haulage, agriculture and construction, meaning price rises can quickly spread across the economy and spur broader inflation.
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So Labour is considering plans for a tax raid on holiday cottages ahead of the Budget. More hospitality & local businesses suffer, jobs are lost and guess where everyone now goes on holiday - abroad. I am baffled by these lot, who will they tax when all businesses have gone bust?
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IMO Fly tipping & illegal dumping due to tips being shut will get worse also, the cost of skip hire a going up weekly, due to high Gov disposal taxes, sorting waste & fuel and labour needed to run the lorry. Yet more taxes that end up affecting business margins & the Countryside.
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James Goodson retweeted
This is one of our local farms. When farmers are gone, who helps ?
When a field catches fire, something remarkable happens in the countryside.
Before the last fire engine has even arrived, neighbouring farmers are already on their way. Tractors leave fields half-finished. Cultivators and ploughs are used to cut firebreaks. Water bowsers appear from nowhere. Everyone has one aim: stop the fire, protect wildlife, save crops and, above all, keep people’s homes safe.
Look at these photographs. See just how close the flames came to those houses.
I’ve often said that farmers are Britain’s fourth emergency service, and days like this prove it. They don’t ask who owns the field or whose problem it is. They simply turn up.
It’s time this Government @UKLabour started recognising farmers for what they really are: not just food producers, but environmental custodians, protectors of our countryside and champions of our rural communities.
The next time you see a farmer driving towards a fire instead of away from it, remember that’s what real public service looks like. @FarmersWeekly @FarmersGuardian @BBCBreakfast @SkyNews @loosecollie @GBNEWS @MartinDaubney @agricontract @JeremyClarkson
