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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:21 pm Isn't the post Brexit policy a genuine improvement?

Have you gone through customs at Calais eating a fresh apple without paperwork? The UK still hasn't implemented Brexit for EU food imports.

Ah, I was thinking of the subsidies for British producers.

They aren't going after farmers. They're going after people who watch Countryfile.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:52 pm Ah, I was thinking of the subsidies for British producers.

Possibly but Gove's claims that CAP subsidies were only available to rip up the countryside to grow cereals hasn't been true for over three decades.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:24 pm They aren't going after farmers. They're going after people who watch Countryfile.

This caught my eye as I regularly walk my dog under massive pylons emanating from the Walpole generating station mentioned in the article. So big that tractors can plough under them and take negligible amount of land out of production. This is Tory tosh about Ed Miliband being a net zero greeny crazy man.

On Wednesday, South Holland District Council voted unanimously to apply pressure to have the Fens' "critical" food-producing role recognised and given designated protection, similar to areas of conservation.

A government spokesperson said solar power does not risk the UK's food security.

National Grid is also proposing to build a new line of pylons from Grimsby through the Fens to Walpole in Norfolk to carry green energy from Scotland to the south east of the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn03gr0071ro

What’s the specific area they want free of pylons? All farmland in Lincolnshire? That’s completely different to a smallis area of particular natural interest. Absolutely absurd.

I always take the view that the Tories context for the countryside is, give land back to the local squire, stop right to roam, and destroy the National Trust

Yes, conservative doesn't mean conservation. It means retaining control of things.

Conservatives are like conserve in the jam sense - rich, thick, leads to sticky fingers getting in everything, often inexplicably retained well past its best before date, and too much of it makes you very ill indeed.

And other cultures do it better, though for unfathomable reasons, the UK prefers American-influenced stuff that ceased to resemble the real thing many decades ago.

Allegedly Badenoch wants to make a 6-day working week the norm.

Is the LinkedIn grindbro grift vote really that big?

That shows the shallowness of her intellect. The woke libs want a four day week, so she has to say something opposing that - no matter how stupid it sounds.

MusT OpPoSE tHe LibTArDs.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 3:24 pm Allegedly Badenoch wants to make a 6-day working week the norm.

Is the LinkedIn grindbro grift vote really that big?

It's a parody site. But says everything that people don't find it out of the question that she would say that...

It is believable. Tories under Sunak had this weird obsession with Lib Dem run South Cambs district council who trialed a four day week at the office. Despite saving money without damaging service delivery.

Protestant work ethic has a lot to answer for. That and getting a vicarious thrill from knowing that other people are toiling.

I'm with Jerome K Jerome...

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:17 pm

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 3:24 pm Allegedly Badenoch wants to make a 6-day working week the norm.

Is the LinkedIn grindbro grift vote really that big?

It's a parody site. But says everything that people don't find it out of the question that she would say that...

It was so believable it didn’t even register as a flicker

It's not as if the bold Badenoch would be able to grasp the concept of "work smarter". Life, art, mimicry, and all that.

Someone said that Jenrick is just pretending to be a nutjob right-wing crank in order to get the nutter vote, but Badenoch is the real McCoy.

They might very well have a point.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:22 pm Someone said that Jenrick is just pretending to be a nutjob right-wing crank in order to get the nutter vote, but Badenoch is the real McCoy.

They might very well have a point.

If he's only pretending he's doing a good job.