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Post by oggyoggy on May 16, 2024 20:52:51 GMT
Vennells appears for 3 days of evidence next week. Should be interesting.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 16, 2024 12:39:48 GMT
Project fear is still alive and kicking, just as it was for control of imports was going to lead to empty shelves. The answer to most British problems is always the same, namely British people should support British products, which are best. Our future is now in our own hands and not ruled by Brussels. Buy British beef and lamb: redtractorassurance.org.uk/news/ahdb-confirms-world-leading-beef-and-lamb/Remind me why we were unable to buy British lamb pre Brexit again?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 16, 2024 6:03:08 GMT
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Post by oggyoggy on May 16, 2024 5:51:41 GMT
I am delighted the UK has left the EU, one of the main reasons apart from restoring sovereignty is leaving the Common Agricultural Policy. Naturally the wealthy farmers who get the vast majority of the tax payers money are squealing about it. Naturally it will take a long time to phase out; the government target is 8 years, I think it will take at least 12 years, as it took New Zealand over a decade to end their subsidising of food production and establish market based farming. "The CAP incentivises industrial farming practices, overuse of fertilisers and pesticides, and monocultures, which leads to water pollution and over-extraction, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, and the decline of pollinators." www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/15/billions-from-eu-taxpayers-damage-nature-heres-how-it-can-stop#:~:text=The%20CAP%20incentivises%20industrial%20farming,and%20the%20decline%20of%20pollinators As for import controls on food and plants from the EU, further to my post on February 10th on page 1,576 oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/post/8044376/threadwhere I gave reasons for my support for import controls on food and plants from the EU, there have been further developments which support this action. Yet another consignment (3.4 tonnes) of illegal meat was seized by the Dover port authorities at the end of April. The haul included 54 unmarked sheep carcasses from two vehicles from Romania. Having been transported without temperature controls and in unhygienic conditions, it had cross-contaminated other food including pig parts, beef and “cheese items dripping with blood”. Dover District Council says the seizures are in the wake of increased concerns that African Swine Fever (ASF), which was recently found in Sweden, Italy and Germany could possibly spread to the UK, endangering the UK’s pig industry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx035nvxz2joConcern about ASF is growing. In the government report: "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Updated Outbreak Assessment #34 African swine fever in Europe 25 January 2024", it was reported that there have been nearly 3,000 reports of ASF in domestic pigs, and 3,600 in wild boar in 2023 in over a dozen EU countries, as well as many other east European countries. Five new European countries reported the presence of ASF in 2023. www.thepigsite.com/news/2024/01/african-swine-fever-continues-to-rise-in-europeClimatic change and weather extremes are leading to significant increase in the risk of diseases. In addition to ASF there is concern about African horse sickness, avian influenza, blue tongue virus, West Nile fever, and chronic wasting diseases, which all pose a threat to human health. African Horse Sickness would be devastating for our second most popular sport, the horse racing industry. Individual countries face their own problems. The Netherlands has one of the best control regimes but had an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2001. More recently the Dutch have experienced more than 6,000 cases of a new strain of blue tongue virus. The Dutch successfully eradicated leptospirosis in dairy cattle but still faces occasional re-infection due to imports from neighbouring countries. The EU banned the import of British beef for over a decade due to mad cow disease, which the world considered a "British disease". However four atypical cases of BSE were confirmed in 2020 in France and the disease has been reported in many other countries, including Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy. It is vital to British farming to exercise the maximum safety check on all imported foodstuffs, animals, etc. from Europe and protect the UK from diseases present in Europe. There has been increasing alarm amongst the veterinary sector and domestic food producers that the UK is facing increasing risks. Whilst some diseases can be brought in by the wind or migrating birds, they warn that our "uncontrolled border" makes us vulnerable to food fraud and animal disease entering the UK market. I pointed out in my previous post that it is also technically illegal for us to give businesses in the EU market preferential treatment, not controlling their import the same way we do other trading partners, as it contravenes WTO rules, as well as being clearly patently unfair to UK producers. There is also the risk of plant diseases such as xylella, a fast-spreading bacterial disease for plants found in mainland Europe. UK horticulturists and flower/plant sellers are concerned about the cost of controls being imposed on imports from the EU and future availability from EU suppliers. But surely control is better than letting diseases from Europe run wild in the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/plant-apocalypse-how-deadly-imported-diseases-are-destroying-eu-trees-and-crops-aoeConsidering the longer term, the UK is doing the right thing to move away from food dependence on Europe and spread dependence to places like Australia and New Zealand who are major food exporters. Food production in Europe will decline in the future due to climate change and the need to reduce pollution due to intensive farming. "Agriculture has multiple impacts on the environment, climate and human health. Unsustainable farming practices lead to pollution of soil, water, air and food and over-exploitation of natural resources." Reference: www.eea.europa.eu/signals-archived/signals-2020/articles/land-and-soil-pollutionThe UK is right to phase out the CAP which drives intensive farming and move to more sustainable practices. 60-75% of EU agricultural soils have excessive nutrient inputs. 80,000 sites have been cleaned up in countries where data is available, heavy metals and mineral oil from historical heavy industries and military activity being the most frequent contaminants. The EU has also tried to reduce the use of chemicals but had to reverse the policy due to farmers protests, such is the political power of agriculture in the EU. Having read my previous post and the above, to anyone who remains unconvinced that import controls on food and plants from the EU are necessary I say this. Imagine if controls were already in place and a government announced an end to controls on the grounds of expense or removal of red tape or increasing choice and availability, thereby endangering our indigenous farming and horticultural industries and our food retailers, catering industry, and UK citizens health, etc. Would you be in favour of such a move? Or would you consider it a reckless act? Of course the government is not removing control they are increasing control to reduce the health and safety risks to our society and environment, God willing. Will a new Labour government remove import controls? Of course not. It would be madness to expose ourselves to the crooks in Eastern Europe. As well as destroying nature on land the EU has destroyed fish stocks in the North Sea and the Mediterranean. The EU is in the grip of business interests and care naught for nature and the environment, as evidenced by the foreign owners of UK water companies. The puffin is endangered but do the EU care? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9rrpn955qoI repeat I thank the Lord for the day we left that despicable EU organization who I see are now sucking up to China. You would have thought they learnt the lesson from Russia. Your posts remind me of Kate Winslet’s character in the Regime! You are an incredible gas lighter. My particular highlight is you advocating imports of food from NZ and Australia for environmental reasons!! Brexit is bringing an end to the farmers in this country and is an unmitigated disaster. See my post above about lamb. It is also terrible for consumers who have to pay more and for lower standard produce.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 16, 2024 5:48:26 GMT
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Post by oggyoggy on May 15, 2024 16:28:36 GMT
Why should you have to pay tax that goes towards funding schools if you don’t have kids? Why should you have to pay tax that goes towards treating children overweight people on the NHS or smokers if you don’t smoke and are not overweight? Why should you have to pay tax to fund infrastructure in a part of the country you never go to? etc etc etc If we want a state broadcaster (I do and I think the BBC is one of the best examples of such when you actually examine its history and what it does), the tax payer needs to fund it. It is certainly better than billionaire funded broadcasters. Funding schools is investing in the future of younger generations thus a valuable investment. On the second point. An adult society carries a responsibility to provide care for children even if you don't have them yourself. That's because children are not able to work to pay taxes and national insurance. People who are overweight or smoke or drink pay their taxes as they don't stop working once they begin the habit. They also pay the extra duties on the products they use so probably more than a taxpayer that doesn't partake. The BBC itself is not a producer of good programmes. They buy the programmes from the commercial entity known as BBC studio's which is a LTD company and owns such subsidiaries as UK Gold UK Drama, yesterday, Dave, Britbox etc. BBC studio's also sell programmes to streaming services and worldwide broadcasters. On the uktv network they broadcast BBC programmes which are supported by advertising. Even the beloved Question Time is produced by a private ltd company called Mentorn media. Apart from news programmes and an ever dwindling local radio service their is not much else to be noted for. All their overseas services are funded by advertising and the license payer combined. Looks more like a government approved scam than a reputable organisation. I’m not arguing for the examples I gave. I think what you have said extends to culture in society too. For example, lots of museums and galleries are funded (at least partially) by tax payers. Loads of people don’t visit them. Loads of people wouldn’t care if that money was saved. The BBC is similar. I have read before that for every £1 spent, it raises £2 for the British economy. It is the most popular and widely used service provider in the UK. It invests in British programming and British talent. It has launched 1000s of careers. It is regulated in terms of the rules for how much it can pay people and less nepotistic than the exceptionally nepotistic media world, providing opportunities to many who wouldn’t have a chance elsewhere. It is globally respected. You may not like the programmes but BBC 1 was voted the number 1 channel for highest quality programming in an international survey of 66 channels. It is free to produce content (or broadcast content) without an agenda, frequently doing so from many perspectives rather than from one side of every argument like almost every single other media channel. It is generally equally popular with labour supporters and tory supporters, or leave and remain supporters. What other media source can boast that? It isn’t anywhere near perfect. But losing it would be terrible in my opinion for our media and even worse for trust in our journalism.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 15, 2024 16:10:25 GMT
Anyone know why? Awful.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 15, 2024 16:07:44 GMT
Our government should be judged more by how it treats our most vulnerable. Our government couldn’t be any worse against comparables. Would anyone considering voting Tory like to respond and explain how when they read these stats?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 14, 2024 14:30:12 GMT
Fair enough, but there are loads of cultural (and other) things most people have nothing to do with that are tax payer funded and that is the point I was making. I prefer the BBC to Fox or Russia Today. It is equally hated by both extreme sides of the political system in the Uk. It makes loads of errors and mistakes, but is respected globally and I think most nations would think we would be stark raving mad to get rid of it. if you're implying that the bbc news is respected then i would tend to agree but the bbc budget extends to making programmes that some would consider drivel eg the recent adaptation of david copperfield or gary linekers platform on motd. perhaps if they just concentrated on news then more money would be available to the government to spend on health and education ? question time used to be good now its audience is biased (bring back robin day ), dr who is absurd , attenborough is ok but hes doing stuff for sky now , repair shop is hosted by a suspected wife beater , eurovision is a sing-a-longa political agenda, their quiz shows are just vehicles for has been bbc entertainers to have a swan song , the prize monies where joe public are involved are ridiculous when compared to itv , id say bin it . Other opinions about programming are available
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Post by oggyoggy on May 14, 2024 10:18:20 GMT
Why should you have to pay tax that goes towards funding schools if you don’t have kids? Why should you have to pay tax that goes towards treating children overweight people on the NHS or smokers if you don’t smoke and are not overweight? Why should you have to pay tax to fund infrastructure in a part of the country you never go to? etc etc etc If we want a state broadcaster (I do and I think the BBC is one of the best examples of such when you actually examine its history and what it does), the tax payer needs to fund it. It is certainly better than billionaire funded broadcasters. Or…adverts 😂 I don’t think the moral standpoint of paying for someone’s healthcare extends to paying for their tv. Fair enough, but there are loads of cultural (and other) things most people have nothing to do with that are tax payer funded and that is the point I was making. I prefer the BBC to Fox or Russia Today. It is equally hated by both extreme sides of the political system in the Uk. It makes loads of errors and mistakes, but is respected globally and I think most nations would think we would be stark raving mad to get rid of it.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 14, 2024 10:14:31 GMT
i think thats the problem ..... you are looking at the beebs history and not what it has become . I think the fact the BBC is considered left wing and woke by the right, and right wing by the left shows it gets things about right. People have different tastes. But it is a wonderful service provider in general, and certainly in the journalism world, it is given the upmost respect globally.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 14, 2024 8:53:11 GMT
TV license now paid by everybody as a percentage of your income. Advantages: For most people a lower cost than before. No more control freaks running around. Disadvantages: You have to pay even if you don't have a tv. (Sweden. For a few years now.) Why should you have to pay for a tv license if you don’t use a tv? Personally, I think it’s bollocks. I’m glad we don’t have to do it in the US. Normal tv is dying a slow death anyways. Why should you have to pay tax that goes towards funding schools if you don’t have kids? Why should you have to pay tax that goes towards treating children overweight people on the NHS or smokers if you don’t smoke and are not overweight? Why should you have to pay tax to fund infrastructure in a part of the country you never go to? etc etc etc If we want a state broadcaster (I do and I think the BBC is one of the best examples of such when you actually examine its history and what it does), the tax payer needs to fund it. It is certainly better than billionaire funded broadcasters.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 14, 2024 8:04:46 GMT
The ruling by the Belfast High Court today is troubling in many ways not least for UK Democracy I have said on various threads at least a dozen times that the various Laws the Government have enacted to try to circumvent its International Agreements are incompatible in Law and when tested would fail. I expected it to reach its conclusion in an English High Court/Supreme Court but the Belfast High Court is sufficient before it inevitably reaches the Supreme Court The reasons I said it was incompatible under UK Law was the exact reasons High Court Judge Mr Justice Humphreys delivered his judgemen tthat : 'This does not represent the will of the Courts, but this represents the will of Parliament.’” In other words the High Court was not making a judgement whether it was right or wrong to send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda but the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2024 RAIB was illegal under existing UK Law, The Human Rights Act 1998 ( which is a cut and paste of ECHR) and is intrinsic to the Good Friday Agreement. In addition Article 2 of the Windsor Framework which forms part of the UK/EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement TCA on which the UK exited the EU and agreed there would be no dimunation of Human Rights of Citizens of Northern Ireland which RAIB was found to do. The original plan was to deem anyone that came to UK by irregular means as breaking the Law by definition under the Illegal Migration Act 2023 but this was scuppered by the Supreme Court who deemed, not the plan, but Rwanda itself not a safe Country to send Asylum Seekers. We now find that the RAIB which sought to overrule the Supreme and not allow it to consider the matter any further is illegal under UK Law, at least in NI, under ECHR and TCA What is extraordinary is that presumably UK Government relied on very expensive Legal advice that their plan was legal which it quite obviously wasn't that anyone with an ounce of intelligence would be able to immediately confirm. I wonder if the Legal advice which the Government is refusing to publish that says UK is not breaking International Humanitarian Law by supplying Arms to Israel is being provided by the same people Will Rishi get the flights off to Rwanda and fulfill Cruella Christmas dream, its hard to know. Will they delay until today's High Court decision is tested in the Supreme Court, risky of getting wrong decision The Illegal Migration Act 2023 specifically tasks the Home Secretary to remove Asylum Seekers who have entered UK by irregular means? Does Jimmy Dimly have the Balls to do it if he can be subsequently personally prosecuted for an illegal act under UK Law, very brave. The Home Office Civil Servants or should i call them The Blob have already been consulting their Unions for reassurance that they won't be personally liable for prosecution if they participate in illegally sending Asylum Seekers to Rwanda Will Cruella or some other "Wannabee" Prime Minister like Jenrick go Neuclear and demand UK withdraws from ECHR and Trade Agreement with EU All options are open to these Crazy , Incompetent, Bastards And it still hasn’t stopped the boats, which is the entire purpose of the legislation.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 13, 2024 19:24:30 GMT
Oggy will help you out he’s a minted London lefty lawyer😉 Oggy? You provide the capital and I'll provide the you with some top notch real estate advice. 20% seems fair for Foster Financial services. I’ll get drafting on the paperwork
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Post by oggyoggy on May 13, 2024 11:05:10 GMT
Wealth isn’t just money though. I’m ok owning a detached bungalow in South Hams of Devon. No mortgage and comfortable with decent military & state pension. But this is dwarfed by the wealth of having both daughters and 3 grandchildren living within walking distance. Financial wealth isn’t everything chaps. Living the dream. That comes across as insincere but I couldn’t be more sincere. For someone who is under 40 and no family wealth to fall back on, to one day be retired in a mortgage free home in a nice part of the world with enough pension and living close to family and grandkids seems an absolute pipe dream the way things have gone and are going. If you have your health too, you really are in a wonderful position in life.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 13, 2024 8:10:48 GMT
I'm a week into taking my wife to the cleaners in a divorce settlement, watch this space. 👍🤔 You'll be bottom by then. I'm still paying out 15 years later. You can't win if you're a man it's not permitted. If you have a good divorce lawyer you can!
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 21:19:10 GMT
I find him quite irritating. Careful, Oggy will label you a homophobe with that kind of talk Only if he dislikes him because he is gay. But I don’t think that is what he is saying.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 21:16:20 GMT
First past the post is about voting against the party you don’t like. That’s why many will hold their nose and vote labour to oust the tories. A bit like in 2010 when many of us “held our noses” and voted Lib Dem to keep the Tories out? It didn’t quite work out for us though, did it? If you voted lib dem to get the tories out in your constituency and the lib dems won that seat then yes, it did work. Else the tories would have had their majority sooner if lib dem seats had gone to the tories.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 21:13:46 GMT
Isn’t she just pleased that Nemo won? Could have just said that then. Instead we get the all too common victimhood, tears, and battle against adversity melodrama. This five minute, already forgotten, talentless irrelevance will be checking in with PTSD or something. I look forward to seeing you show more talent at next year’s contest
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 16:36:07 GMT
Not in first past the post Then continue voting for the party you don’t like, hoping that they will one day change. First past the post is about voting against the party you don’t like. That’s why many will hold their nose and vote labour to oust the tories.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 16:20:04 GMT
What did you cook him (her) for breakfast? I didn’t see him leave this morning, I just woke up naked with my arse in the air, I felt very vulnerable and violated but please don’t tell anyone Cranny will be jealous
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 16:12:30 GMT
My mother used to say that if a man dressed up as a woman it was ridiculing the woman, mocking and very discriminating to portray the woman as ugly as possible. As bad as making fun of someone with down syndrome or cerebral palsy with grimaces. There was a tranny in the pub last night that fitted your mothers description perfectly. He reminded me of a crossover of Cupid Stunt and Dame Edna. What did you cook him (her) for breakfast?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 14:58:07 GMT
I don’t think it’s a wasted vote. If people simply voted for the people that they wanted rather than worrying about what everyone else was doing, they’d be happier and there would likely be more diversity in politics. Not in first past the post
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 11:13:29 GMT
Big Nige may as well just do a cover of Im Too Sexy Re-enact your recurring wet dream, you mean?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 11:05:28 GMT
Absolutely 100% this... The woman is ugly on the inside and the outside. Isn’t she just pleased that Nemo won?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 10:55:01 GMT
Because he is a man in drag He can't see it's discriminating? Wait, are you saying I need to shave before going out in a dress so as not to offend!?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 10:51:56 GMT
It didn’t even occur to me that he is a drag act! In which case, he is very much a he, and not a they or a she, but the character he plays is a she. Why does it have a beard? Because he is a man in drag. Or it’s for the same reason Samir Nasri was allowed to play men’s football.
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 10:51:17 GMT
We are grumpy fuckers aren’t we
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 9:28:04 GMT
Super Jon Walters is white?
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Post by oggyoggy on May 12, 2024 9:21:10 GMT
Neighbours not telling you before they light their bbq when they can see you have washing on the line and you are down wind.
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