But we are rather missing the point. The idea from government is to cause massive doubt in the minds of farmers about the future of their businesses and farms. They want you to sell; they want you out of the way. This is about destabilising the countryside across the board. Look

Thank you, David Turver . A great and thoughtful thread as always. Yes, during GE2024 we run into this several times during hustings; supporters very vocal, and well versed on the prospect of this CaN Act even then. A lot of activist effort has gone into drafting and disseminating this

And so it begins.: The great land conversation. Only if you’re a farmer, in the conversation the Government intends you are expected merely to listen - content to be talked at - rather than speak and be heard. That’s some conversation! Social Democratic Party

Judging by what the Prime Minister said yesterday, offering the plight and concern of family farms as a necessary policy direction for the benefit of the economy and public services, the crisis in farming and the wider countryside takes on a deeper and more damning dimension.

All logical. But this crisis we face has been long planned; sharpened to a keen gutting edge by all manner of anti-rural activism operating from the heart of government. We in the Countryside are judged their ideological enemy. Currently gifted insane levels of power by a system

Clive Bailye As I’ve been saying and Social Democratic Party has fully recognised, no more than bile and spite, ideological hatred, against farming and everything it stands for. Land is the key, and it is control over land they’re after. They’ll push the buttons and then go for the kill. Right now

This guy Graham Denny is a genius. Listen to his words. Understand the hard work and commitment he has to farmland-based conservation. The results are real, substantial and evidenced by year- on -year, decade-upon-decade survey and audit. All of it happening in real time under

As a country, as a nation, we’re in a real mess. In point of fact, the UK is in a genuine state of crisis. All the signs point to things getting much worse, and perhaps dangerously so. Everyone seems to be losing something, doubtful whether things can ever be made to turn

As nationally critical as home produced food is to the UK, farming is being hit hard by Labour. This Government has proven explicitly that it cares nothing for farming, for farmers, for farming families, nor the countryside as a whole. Appeasement of the Parliamentary Labour

“The green movement is like a swimming pool. All the noise comes from the shallow end.” From: Climate change delusion and the great electricity rip off Ian Plimer

A most telling illustration from Welsh farmer and farming commentator Gareth Wyn Jones It is essentially very straightforward, though no less devastating for family farms across the UK. You see, the Government is actively targeting land: the countryside is being asset stripped

Appreciate the retweets to see if we can motivate our government into the real world of wildlife loss ! Jeremy Squirrell Farmer Tom 🧢 🇺🇦 Jake Freestone Gareth Wyn Jones James Rebanks Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 Ally Hunter Blair ClarksonsFarm BC Suffolk Branch Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber Tom Bradshaw Tim Bonner 🇺🇦 Richard Negus

It all steps up a gear now. Immense policy talent. This move is vital to the future of the UK, our people, their communities. Significant and welcome.

And this is why if you are to promote real, substantive, proven and progressive conservation management you begin right here: whatever the habitat, whatever the species, if it involves land, get yourself a good farmer. Well said, A. R. Peters & Son Graham Denny Gareth Wyn Jones

All part of the grand plan. Working precisely as intended.

Politics is a game of spite. The countryside has traditionally, and predictably, voted Conservative. That simple fact is why the last government got sloppy in their complacency about rural votes. It is why this current government is going all out to smash rural constituencies.

Farmer and conservationist Graham Denny a true wildlife champion in every sense. A future government looking to restore conservation value on farmland would do well to include Mr Denny on a specialist advisory board in order to guide things to best advantage. And might I

To borrow for a moment the reflective sentiment of Niemőller: First they came for the farms, and I did not speak out — because I wasn’t a farmer. Then they came for the producers of food, and I did not speak out — because I didn’t produce food. Then they came for the land, and

Unless you care about the British countryside that is — then it’s smash baby smash! How can this be stopped?