James Rebanks They can't pull BPS, add taxes, raise quality and welfare standards and expect cheap food. Unless they import subsidised or lower standard food from elsewhere.

Socialism: You have two cows. The state takes one. Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you a ration of milk. Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a thriving herd. Labour: You have two cows. The state takes both, drinks the

Current government policy… Export: ♻️ carbon footprint 🤚 control ⛴️ fewer UK farm goods with prices driven high by regulation 💵 UK sterling paying for food Import: 🤢 disease 🧺 foreign goods produced under conditions illegal in the UK ⛓️‍💥 food produced using cheap labour

Take a look at her face! Labour supporter Marina Purkiss has no comeback as the plight of Farmers and why they're protesting is laid out for her.

So people who don’t grow food think they know how to “fix” it 🤔 The Labour Party asking the WRONG people the WRONG questions so will inevitably get the WRONG answers ☹️

Hundreds of farm shops are at risk of closing down as owners continue to be hammered by the impact of Rachel Reeves' tax-raiding Budget. Thousands of jobs at risk & as many as 700 - one in two - could shut.

A bad FTA with 🇺🇸 was headed off in 2020 as >1m people signed an National Farmers' Union petition saying they didn’t want to eat food it was illegal to produce here. If a snap FTA is on the cards, hard to see this govt having the moral fibre to back its own farmers & citizens.

Small abattoirs continue to close; Government remains oblivious to the challenge this creates. 'Fewer small abattoirs means more factory farms'. We could have more small business, selling locally, regionally, but not without processing power. Tim Farron Victoria Atkins

And - critically - signalled to ‘the market’ that you don’t value nature either. If government isn’t willing to pay for ‘public goods’, why on earth would the private sector? The Labour Party on another planet if it thinks this is the way to get ‘green finance’ to step up.

Mixed fortunes for Suffolk trio at Lord's Cricket Ground... tinyurl.com/3rc8druk jamieleesmithcatering.co.uk NV Play

We’ve seen too many trade deals that were bad for our farmers. Last night, I spoke about the risk of doing the same with the United States: undercutting our farmers and undermining our animal welfare standards.

The abrupt pause of SFI has caused real damage. I have again raised this with the minister and asked him to guarantee that the whole £2.4 billion annual farming budget will be protected through and beyond the Spending Review. Farmers need stability, not stop-start schemes.

BREAKING - Labour’s tax raid on farmers will in fact cost the Treasury up to £2bn (via The Telegraph) telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

Teamsheets for England Over 40s Cricket v Veterans Cricket Association of Ireland at High Wycombe CC on 10th June. Ireland with 7 ex-international should make for a cracking game. Live stream via NV Play on England Seniors 40s & 50s YT channel. Apex Group Gentlemen & Players

"We ended the estate tax, there is no estate tax on farmers" Trump schools Starmer on farmers!

Sad sign of the times when this “crop” - a one year fallow with cover crops - which supplies no human food, will be by far the best paying crop on the farm this year. Doing good for the soil, insects and birds for sure - but food is too cheap!

A baby oak. Growing on the farm where the beef cattle have grazed. Stewardship is everything. Eat real red meat and animal fat; buy the best you can.

MCC is touring Zimbabwe this October, with a strong 13-man squad named for the trip, the first time that the Club has toured the country in the modern era.