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I think they will now wait to see how good a Prime Minister she is when Two Tier gets the elbow at the next election……
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I think they will now wait to see how good a Prime Minister she is when Two Tier gets the elbow at the next election……
Alan Whittle
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NilSatisOptimum
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Only winner is Reform, at least the racists have now been fully purged from the Tories.
And I very much doubt she will last long enough to fight an election as she’s too divisive and doesn’t seem to have that much of a mandate from the party as a whole. I fully expect her to become even more unhinged as the party lurch even more towards Reform levels of bat poop crazies
And I very much doubt she will last long enough to fight an election as she’s too divisive and doesn’t seem to have that much of a mandate from the party as a whole. I fully expect her to become even more unhinged as the party lurch even more towards Reform levels of bat poop crazies
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Its a joke ‘farm tax’, from what I understand a couple who inherit a farm with property on it will only pay the inheritance tax if it is worth more than £3 million?
And the rate is 20% which you can spread over 10 years. However, it’s the end of farming apparently, greedy little feckers.
NilSatisOptimum
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More significant that anything than that shobgite has achieved.
NilSatisOptimum
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Still getting treated as a special case, everyone else pays a 40% rate.
The faming grants and taxes need a good looking at, double grants for landowner and tenants ect.
Farms , hill farmers ect only excisting because of farming grants , if you parked a shop in the middle of nowhere and said we need it keeping open as its my chosen way of life , but it makes a loss and never will be able to stand alone,
How long fo you think it would take get told to f off and look for another job.
Not farmers though they are keeping a way of life going.
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As a farmer myself who is part of a successful farm business that does not receive grants or subsidies.
I wholeheartedly agree, lots of these farms are being ran as unsuccessful businesses that don't generate profit and rely fully on grants and subsides to stay functioning.
Sadly this reliance on outside financial support is only exasperated by the supermarkets and supply chains absorbing most of the profit.
Think on average a farmer in the UK makes less than a penny for every load of bread they help produce which is absolutely scandalous.
I really wish something would be and could be done by the government to change this so farms can go back to being profitable businesses within themselves and not relying on funding.
Why is it at farmers markets, when presumably those profit stealing middle men are cut out, the produce is nearly always far more expensive than in the shops?
Farmer's markets tend to be small producers selling smaller quantities at higher margins.
Supermarkets give consumers a very distorted view of what it actually costs to produce decent food. They bully their suppliers and have killed so many businesses with their capricious and unreasonable demands, knowing there'll always be some other mug to take the place of the company they've killed.
A company I worked for produced some items for Lidl, the price we agreed was based on us producing a year's worth of product at once, which they would take in three drops across the course of the year. Prior to the second drop going in, they demanded a ridiculous reduction in the price, leaving our margin at 2%, or they wouldn't take it, knowing we had nothing else we could do with it. Was about ten pallets of stock. We severed ties with them after that.
Another practice is to charge money for shelf space, and then stupid promotions throughout the year, plus an extra discount if they reach a certain amount of sales, and you get left with almost no margin at the end of it. It's hardly worth small suppliers doing business with supermarkets.
Think the virtual monopoly some of the big players have supermarkets ect needs looking at the drive the price down with the threat of we can get it overseas .
To be honest the price of certain things like carrots
just doesn't make sense to me, can't be very big mark up on them for the growers.Unless the farmers got together formed a block themselves suppose it's to easy for the big boys to set the market.
Might be a place for government to offer some breaks for actually buying UK produce, (not sure they could with trade deals ect)
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