Andrew Robinson
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Head of Agric at Armstrong Watson Accountants advising farmers, land owners, Farmers son ,Enjoy growing dahlias & working on the farm
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I have got to say it but we must be the softest country around . The over reaction so far to the
#beastfromtheast
is making us a laughing stock . It is still winter after all ❄️❄️☃️☃️
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I am getting really fed up of beef and livestock industry getting blame for methane etc. Surely if we all stopped flying around the world or drive our vehicles less it would have far bigger impact . I think they are picking an easy target and not upsetting large corporates
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@jonsnowC4
Oh for Petes sake trees get blown down every autumn and winter . Stop blaming everything on global warming you are just making a mockery of the whole thing and turning people cold to the whole thing
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Let’s not fuel the vegans fire we are all entitled to eat what we chose . But instead let’s sell the benefits of a balanced meat and plant based diet and the quality sustainable product we produce with sound science based facts not ideology.
#backbritishfarming
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So how does this work my cows get blamed for global warming yet film stars blasting off to space for the fun of it gets no comment re the emissions . Funny that !biased media 🤔
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I have had enough of the British Beef industry getting bashed for climate change. Especially as it is based on bad science !! Why is no one having a look at Football clubs flying all over the world, cut flowers flown in from Kenya ?. I could go on !!
#backbritishfarming
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I’m a rugby fan . After the
@WorcsWarriors
news today and watching the ‘Steve Thompson dementia and me’ it’s time
@RFU
take a long hard look at their governance of rugby in my opinion .
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I achieved a long held ambition today . I became National champion at the National Dahlia Society show
@RHSWisley
. I’m over the moon best dahlia day ever
#bouncing
Back to the day job tomorrow
#farmingaccountant
@ArmstrongWatson
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Successful day at the
#Luing
sale at Castle Douglas, acquired the bull we wanted to join my herd 👍
#farmingaccountant
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So Lewis Hamilton supports stop oil protesters but drives a gas guzzling F1 car and private jets it around the world !!! Figure that one out if you can ?
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Been an interesting day happily sticking up for Uk farming against the keyboard warriors ? Had some of the most odd things lobbed in against me!all from people that have never spent a day on a farm and are all sitting behind their keyboards well fed on food produced by a farmer .
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Twitter is a horrendous place this morning! So thought we would have a nice peaceful Luing cow picture in a Rural Northumberland .
#bekind
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So tonight it is the water industry having a go at livestock farming with dodgy science . Why don’t they tackle their leaks or other wastes of water ? Surely producing food is better use of water than say washing cars or watering lawns ?
#backbritishfarming
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I can’t hold it in any longer!
@BorisJohnson
is a complete imbecile his attitude towards the pig and farming industry is disgraceful and naive. When food runs short it will make the fuel crisis look like a picnic . He will wish he had listened
#saveourbacon
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Question will anyone speaking at
#COP26
have the bravery to discuss the elephant in the room ?
That’s is the rapidly growing population of our little planet .
I doubt it they will just keep picking on easy targets like farming not the real issues
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So we have record fuel, feed and other input prices , a fert plant shutting down , free range egg units mothballed when will this government wake up to the impending food crisis 🤔
#farmingaccountant
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@BBCNews
this article is NOT correct! All supermarkets and processors have cut the price paid to farmers, some by as much as 12ppl over the last 4 months!!! Don’t let supermarkets spin a yarn!
@NFUtweets
@AHDB_Dairy
#backbritishfarming
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Met with one of my larger cereal farmers this morning re accounts etc . Conversation about cropping plans for 2023 . At current forward prices and costs they think risks and working capital requirement to high therefore little getting drilled !
#foodsecurity
issues ahead of us
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I’m putting my tin hat on ready ! But rather than waste efforts & trying to over turn a done deal with Aus. Should be spend our efforts demonstrating how much better our meat products are in terms of welfare, quality & sustainability . Get the public to buy ours 🤔
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Well the old classic combine worked her her way through 22 acres today . If we do the same tomorrow we will be finished 🤞
#farmingaccountant
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Set of Luing twins this morning . We have 93 calves since 6th April now so charging on while weather is good
#farmingaccountant
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Think we all need to stick together in farming industry and remember that whilst record cereal prices help cover costs of growing it has dramatic opposite effect on livestock sector . We need both to be profitable, one won’t function without the other IMO
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So plenty of rhetoric from government about payments to rewild and plant trees. At a time when food prices around the world are facing hyperinflation and poss reduced yields due to world wide input costs ? A perfect storm brewing why doesn’t the government listen ?
#OFC22
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See the beef farming bashing has started early on
@BBCCountryfile
. Is a Vegan scientist truly impartial ? Let’s tell the true story of grass fed sustainable beef .
#BackBritishFarming
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Another headline on
@BBCNews
stating sheep and cattle no’s need to be cut by half to help climate change !!! Frustrates me farming getting the blame solely, what about the transport industry etc never mentioned !!
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Then try working with us farmers instead of blaming us all the time .
Cos if there is no farmers you won’t have any food either . Needs input from all sides in a consultative manner which doesn’t appear your style
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Yet again this morning
@BBCNews
has article related to food and climate change. Why are no other industries like travel and transport being analysed ?? Food is an essential for life travel is not !
#BackBritishFarming
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So two Olympians were arrested for gluing themselves to oil tanker yesterday!!! Did the plane that flew them round the world to olympics etc run on fresh air ???
#devidedprinciples
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What you eat is a personal choice and I do not judge others it is a free country. But trying to stop people eating meat because it is bad for climate but not doing anything about air travel, China, cars etc is hypocritical in the least
#BackBritishFarming
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I have to say I’m sure U.K. Agric would be in a stronger negotiating position if we could all pull together rather than tear holes in everyone’s viewpoint
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Cattle being fattened on all homegrown fodder, can’t get more sustainable than that ! Wholecrop beans, barley and silage
#farmingaccountant
#backbritishfarming
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Instead of panic buying why don’t we all support local business. We have ordered take away pizza from our local Italian restaurant tonight
#Vercellis
#SupportLocal
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So let me get this right in the budget duty was cut on short hawl flights and now the government is going to tax meat to save the planet . 🤔 happy to upset British farming but not the big corporates in my view .
#cowards
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So Defra are going to pay 50% of bps early to help cashflow which is good. But it is simply cashflow it doesn’t address the problems producing a profit at current farmgate prices with the spiralling input costs . Food crisis on its way 🤔
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I might be mad but we have to stay strong in the British Beef ind . I can see a point in the future where proven grass fed sustainable beef will command a premium price due to its utilisation of CO2 sequesting pasture
#BackBritishFarming
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Opening the whole crop pit this morning to put spring beans wholecrop on top and the finished job this evening . Plenty of beans should be rocket fuel 🤞
#farmingaccountant
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5am start for a bit of farming before the office #. Trying to beat the rain !
#farmingaccountant
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Here we go again!!! high animal welfare isn't about organic v non organic !!
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@GeorgeMonbiot
You really do stoop to low levels to push your cause . Your facts are simply not true
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@BenGoldsmith
So you and your mates can grab the land and all the biodiversity payments etc me thinks .
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Ok U.K. beef farmers I have had enough of the negative press re beef and methane etc . I will lead who wants to join me in a campaign for British beef or meat ! Come on let’s do it !
#backbritishfarming
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This morning not as planned some irresponsible walker left footpath gate open!! So we spent the morning looking for 15 cows in the forestry . Fortunately all found and safely back where the belong . Please treat footpaths and countryside with respect
#farmingaccountant
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Oh George as yet you have never stated how you will feed the world in you grand plan . No animals means no fertility so more chems to grow you plant or factory based diet is just one of the challenges
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Loading up one of our new bale trailers this morning saves on a lot of straps and peace of mind
#farmingaccountant
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Wildfire burning on Otterburn ranges today, on an area of MOD land with no farming or game keeping as forbidden area therefore rewilded !!
Now blame that one on us
@GeorgeMonbiot
?
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@BenGoldsmith
Oh grow up you imbecile. As I said yesterday we farm on the Roman wall just along from sycamore gap and we have trees everywhere. You are so shallow to use this event for your own cause
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A very scary morning with Putin charging into the Ukraine! But perhaps it may make our politicians thing harder about how important our food security is 🤔
@MPGeorgeEustice
@BorisJohnson
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That’s the silage safely in for the young stock, wholecrop beans and spring barley to do later in the summer .
#silage2020
#farmingaccountant
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See
@BBCOne
is using pictures of foreign feed lots to slam our sustainable U.K. meat production !! Does that not class as false reporting or just simple manipulation of facts . Tell the truth BBC !!
#BackBritishFarming
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I don’t do politics or politicians but surely Cummings is behaving like a spoilt child who got found out and is now telling tales .
Looking a weak coward in my view . He has a short memory !
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See your in an airport
@ChrisGPackham
helping to protect the environment again!! taking a gas guzzling and carbon dioxide producing flight
#DoubleStandards
Being Vegan : Day Four . May contain humour . May be a bit sarcastic . May be rude about Coldplay . Once again there are winners and losers on the labelling front .
@WeAreVeganuary
(Please note - Scratchy is OBVIOUSLY not on a vegan diet ! He’s raw meatuary as ever)
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Just flown back from Bristol . What an anti social world we live in . Two gents either side of me headphones on all the time never even said hello 🤔How do they do business ,learn new things or meet people . I have met some amazing people over the years by just talking
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Read a lot about no new petrol/diesel vehicles from 2030 today. I’m no expert but the investment in infrastructure and power generation needed must be eye watering ! Bet the target isn’t met in 10 years . Boris just trying to keep fiancé happy 🤔
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@BenGoldsmith
Don’t spout opinions about northern England uplands without visiting none are overgrazed all much less grazed than even 10 years ago . Nothing can hold back 55mm rain in an hour
#BackBritishFarming
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Our Luing cows enjoying breakfast this morning . Shame they are not still outside like last winter but the rain spoilt that !
#farmingaccountant
#backbritishfarming
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Got our blood test results back our Luing herd of BVD accredited and johnes risk 1 , really pleased
#highherdhealth
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I will put my tin hat on in case, but I find it slightly unnerving seeing machinery dealers advertising goods aimed at the Farmers investment fund grant . Money will end up in wrong pockets in the end in my view !
#farmingaccountant
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I see the lockdown brigade are relishing predicting another lockdown in weeks to come . We have to move on for people’s livelihoods and mental and physical health . It’s easy wanting lockdown when you business is at home 🤔but not for rest of us
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Had a great time at national Dahlia show
@RHSWisley
really pleased to win 2 championships and 3rd in main individual championship the big 1
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Got the last of the straw in the shed yesterday 1200 bales safely home . Just the wholecrop beans left this week then it is harvest 22 done
#farmingaccountant
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Surely must be able to get some decent stuff out of this lot to go to nat dahlia show
@RHSWisley
on Tuesday
http://t.co/pUU6NBBYVK
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Relief all round as we have just completed TB test of all breeding animals and we are clear 😀👍. Just need Johnes and BVD bloods to come back clear and we are sorted
#farmingaccountant
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Don’t just buy equipment because you can get a grant on it . Spend the grant on something that genuinely will help your business go forward 🤔
I will put my tin hat on in case, but I find it slightly unnerving seeing machinery dealers advertising goods aimed at the Farmers investment fund grant . Money will end up in wrong pockets in the end in my view !
#farmingaccountant
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We had 5 Angus x forward stores at Hexham mart today . Averaged £1880 quite happy all off home grown feed nothing bought in .
#farmingaccountant
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Happened to be stuck in traffic on M25 at Heathrow today . It was at least a flight a minute whilst I sat , and they blame cows for global warming !!! 🐂👍
#BackBritishFarming
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That's the van loaded ready for the 330mile journey to the National Dahlia Show at
@RHSWisley
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Rant Alert!! I am absolutely sick of people wanting schools closed . Their education sets them up for the rest of their lives ! To have that damaged is not fair and could affect their whole life . They are the silent victims of this whole debacle .
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Starting to really see impact of reducing BPS ,falling prices & increased costs hitting Cashflows . Oh if only the SFI had been ready earlier as promised to give options to get some income in !
#farmingaccountant
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Another 20 Luing X Angus cattle to Scotbeef this morning . £3.85kg so much better than it was
#farmingaccountant
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Daughters watching the brit awards . Ed sheeran on first, thousands of lights and effects . He will no doubt by another a farm to greenwash his carbon footprint 🤔
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Calving powering on at the farm 64 calves since 6th April including six of my own pedigree Luings .
#farmingaccountant
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Visiting business today who is struggling with cash flow due to the difficulties in free range egg sector . When will retailers understand farmers can’t produce eggs at a loss . Drastic decisions may be made today .
#farmingaccountant
#backbritishfarming
@ArmstrongWatson
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@ChrisGPackham
@MailOnline
@Telegraph
Can you provide evidence of any road being blocked ? No because they weren’t . Let’s stick to the facts rather than your fiction.
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When father retired 18yrs ago we farmed 1353ac, 240 cattle & 1100 ewes with MF 135,250,165 & 265 and two quad bikes. No contractor used . I bet we could still do it now. Is there a need for big gear on hill farms ? 🚜🐂
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@BenGoldsmith
Ben can you provide evidence of your exaggerated claims that us farmers dump slurry please . Or is this another of you headline grabbing claims with no backing ? Animal manure is to valuable for us to dump in a sustainable farming system
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Our 16 year old Valtra with its renewed paint on the front end . Looks like new and hopefully do another 16 years 🤞
#farmingaccountant
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@FarmersWeekly
Good news as HMRC have back tracked today and double cab pickups will remain as commercial vehicles for tax purposes and benefit in kind .
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Had a brilliant day at the British Ploughing Championships . Superb to see some of the classics and vintage in action
#farmingaccountant
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Is it just me as it seems whatever we do it is never enough for Greta Thunberg. She just slams everyone and I think turns many off the climate change agenda
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HMRC announce the the annual investment allowance on plant and machinery will stay at 100% of £1m until 31/12/21 and not reduce this December as planned to encourage investment . Use it wisely it’s not a challenge!
#farmingaccountant
@ArmstrongWatson
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Can’t quite believe I have been at
@ArmstrongWatson
30 years today !!! (Am I that old😀). Still enjoy it all, especially being immersed in the Ag sector and my farming clients
#farmingaccountant
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A new round of the countryside productivity small grant scheme opened . Great help for something that will improve you business and efficiency but don’t treat it as a challenge to find something to spend it on !
#farmingaccountant
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With spiralling costs for everyone and food security issues .
@BorisJohnson
is clarting about with imperial measurements !!!! Really the man is a disaster zone and clown . Concentrate on what is important not gimmicks 🤔
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So
@BBCNews
running the story surprise shortage in veg increased inflation . No surprise to many of us, there will be further shortages if farmers and growers not paid fair price to cover input and energy costs .
#backbritishfarming
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@BenGoldsmith
@HamptonGayFarm
Very deceitful using financial data from 6 years ago which was a very poor year . Tell the truth and stop manipulating to suit your story please .
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I am hugely passionate about British farming but just seen a combine coming through Hexham town centre with the driver on his mobile. Ridiculously unsafe,bad example and illegal .
Come on boys !!
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We are selling 6 prime bullocks on Monday . No bought in feed used at all apart from few minerals all home grown forage and grazing permanent pasture . What’s more sustainable and low carbon than that
@MPGeorgeEustice
.
#BackBritishFarming
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I support all methods of farming. but what is your proof and evidence of this fact. Plenty of wildlife on our conventional farm.
Today is
#WorldWildlifeDay
Did you know that organic farms are havens for wildlife?
#WhyOrganic
🐴
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@BenGoldsmith
Oh Ben you are one selfish person. You can cut the support but food prices will have to rise by as much or more .Which affects the whole population including the less wealthy. But you won’t care about that or high prices as your rich and privileged aren’t you
@NoFarmsNoFoods
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Scanned Luing heifers today whilst I was at work being a
#farmingaccountant
. 23 heifers all in calf due to calve April /May at 24mth old 👍🤞
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I am getting so fed up of anyone with an opinion throwing mud at our sustainable British farming products for their own purposes .
But we have to keep getting the message and the truth about our industry out there
#backbritishfarming
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@MarkAvery
@Minette_Batters
Mark you are just proving yourself to be a complete keyboard warrior who isn’t interested in grown up face to face dialogue. Very disappointing behaviour
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#foodpricecap
when will the government realise the industry has had good deflation for last 20 years . The current food inflation is just it catching up . Production costs have spiralled in those 20 years. It’s all political spin !
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