Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 November 2024

Shoemaker makes Shoes: Something that does not apply to the present government

When you have people who have never ever been in business and don't have a clue about running a business, when you have people making decisions about farming when the closest they have been to managing a farm is standing near the shelves of a supermarket, you know that the country is in trouble.

Ideology does not replace knowledge and expertise, but we have got politicians driven by blind ideology deciding what is best for the country. So, if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.

First thing you learn about economics is that the closest the factory is to raw materials the lower production costs will be, but then comes Ed Miliband and decides to prevent new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.

How old was he when Britain was going over the edge because of lack of oil and gas? In the 1970s, Britain was saved by the discovery of oil and gas in the North Sea, but now the all knowledgeable Marxist politician wants to prevent any more exploration for oil and gas.

Britain buys already too much foodstuff abroad so reducing the number of farms on British soil will force Britain to buy even more foodstuff abroad as population keeps growing. What does Labour do? Implements tax measures that will put more and more farms out of business thus reducing production in the United Kingdom.

Every step of the way, Labour policies are based on ignorance, ideological hatred and misconceptions and the alternative is, as it always have been, to borrow more and to produce less. When Labour talks about growth, Labour is not talking about economic growth. Labour is talking about indebtedness growth. And then when they can borrow no more, they will propose massive cuts that will leave people ever poorer.

The consequences of economic mismanagement will be worse than the Covid Pandemic and the energy crisis combined and this could become a very long Winter of Discontent that will end up with tears, and even spilt blood.


Saturday, 8 July 2023

Netherlands: Rutte raus

 

Why don't they like Mark Rutte? Ask Dutch farmers. Ask those who need energy? Ask those who are fed up of having their country flooded?

Mark Rutte headed a coalition that wanted to get rid of Dutch farmers 'to save the environment'. Absolutely cuckoo. Things got to the point when a Dutch Farmer Movement went into politics to defeat nonsense. He wants to get rid of Dutch farmers to then be forced to import food from abroad that presumably is produced payment an environmental price because it is produced abroad and then has to be brought into Netherlands generating fumes. Not much sense, but no sense to be expected from an individual that believes that sacrificing Netherlands in vain is a price worth paying for doing absolutely nothing to save the environment. 

But the last straw was not the environment itself or farming but Netherlands policies on migration. The impact of migration is felt across Netherlands as it is felt elsewhere across Europe. Given the size of Netherlands, one can imagine that it would not take too long to erase it and transform it into fertile ground for Islamic extremists. Well, it already is fertile ground for Islamic extremists although Mark Rutte lives in denial, but denial did not save the ruling coalition when reality became overwhelming. Netherlands needs a government that cares about Dutch needs and Dutch priorities. Even when it comes to geopolitics, Mark Rutte lives in cuckooland. 

Thursday, 25 August 2022

As Liz Truss threatens the Russian Federation with nuclear war, the Russian Federation launches covert national mobilization

 

What about the situation that is developing does the favourite to become British Prime Minister not understand?

If somebody threatens you, what do you do? Launch a pre-emptive attack. Within 15 minutes London will be history. That is the time it takes for a nuclear missile to reach London if launched from Kaliningrad. Hustings are turning into a dangerous circus. 

What is said by British politicians are being studied and every bit of information is being sent abroad to build a profile of what could be the next move. In the meantime, Boris Johnson, the outgoing Prime Minister is asking Britons to put up with an impending economic catastrophe.

Britain is today is an worst position that the position it was in in 1940. For decades now, one government after another has been weakening Britain to the point that Britain's military manpower is less than 80,000 and Britain does not have the capability to patrol its own coasts and its security services don't have the necessary manpower to track every possible terror operator, let alone tracking an organised attack within Britain carried out by well trained operators with a specific agenda.

The Russian Federation does not need to even attempt to attack Britain. British politicians are themselves busy destroying Britain. Improvisation, miscalculation, lack of awareness of the consequences. It is the law of unintended consequences that would push Britain downhill. 

Napoleon described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers. Paradoxically, the said shopkeepers kept Britain alive. Now, British shopkeepers are falling prey of British politicians. 

The news came today that for fear of dealing with bankruptcies and unpaid debts, energy providers are refusing to extend long term energy contracts for small businesses. If the hospitality industries and small businesses are forced to close down - many in the said hospitality industries and small business barely managed to survive the Covid pandemic - the most vulnerable will be once again severely hit.

And what happens to farming? Farmers barely survive thanks to subsidies, subsidies that will be devalued by inflation. Energy rationing? Food rationing? Blackouts? A cabinet minister indicated that he is not in favour of electricity rationing. Well, the words 'if necessary' not only apply to nuclear weapons. The authorities will be forced to impose rationing.  

  


Friday, 2 March 2018

Mandela's Dream is over. Anti-White Racism in South Africa

Mandela's dream is over. Anti-White Racism in South Africa

Black gangs killing white South African farmers is not something new. It has been happening for decades as a formerly buoyant South African economy turns into slums. With the assumption of a new President, this is ethnic cleansing on an industrial proportion. Farmers are going to be dispossed and sooner than later whatever is left of the agricultural economy of South Africa is going to go down the drain as it has gone down the drain in many African countries. Sooner than later we will see adverts on television calling for donation to feed the poor black population of South Africa.

Expropiation of land without compensation will be followed by expropiation in other fields of activity and this includes mining. Mandela's dream of a rainbow South Africa is over or should we say that it could never be possible in a country that is now ruled by Black Racists.

At it happened in Zimbabwe but in a much bigger scale, corruption and lack of training will lead to poor production and starvation followed by riots. For many years, the ANC government policy of transfer has left many farms in a very state and unproductive, generating even more misery for those who are already living on the edge. Let us remember that in South Africa, many thousands of children are selling themselves for sex in order to be able to eat and in the process spreading disease with STI including Aids on the increase.

Nelson Mandela's hopes went to his grave. What is rising in South Africa has nothing to do with peaceful coexistence. It is more about nonsensical ideological misery. 

Friday, 28 July 2017

British Farming: 70% of Britain's land mass is dedicated to farming

Farming is done on 70% of Britain's land mass and this is not little achievement.

There are about 220 farm holdings in the United Kingdom, raging in size from 20 hectares to 100 hectares. But despite highly skilled farmers, advanced technology, the high quality of soil and financial subsidies, the income farmers receive in low due to market prices, the cost of land and the scarcity of land for rental.

The age average of farm holders is 59 and this is why it is vital to keep people in agriculture. The total area devoted to agricultural holdings is about 171 thousand square kilometres and this rises to about 180 square kilometres if we include areas devoted to grazing.

British farming is heavily mechanised and intensive but given the size of Britain's population the country cannot meet food requirements and much of the food consumed in United Kingdom has to be imported.

The lion in terms of agricultural yield is England because in Wales 80% of farmland is classified as Less Favoured Area (lower agricultural yield) and the percentage of less fertile lands rises to 84% in Scotland.

In fact, the country produces barely 59% of the food it consumes and this is happening because of rising population. Therefore, if you wish to make an argument against Flood Immigration, your argument would be 'we cannot afford Flood Immigration because we already are under huge stress to try and feed the population that we already have'.

To counter Liberalism and Marxism, the best argument is built on irrefutable facts and the facts coming from Farming are irrefutable. With the quality of land that we have got and despite the technological advances and know-how, the country should be working on the basis of Zero Immigration, at least.

Seven years ago, the country exported £14 billion worth of food and had to import £32.5 billion worth of food. Therefore, we were £18.5 billion in the red in order to feed those living in Britain. Farming does not seem to appear in the Liberal and Marxist political discourse. Liberals and Marxists look at farmers with disdain because in their minds Farmers are allies of the Ruling Elites or of the rich landowners, when in fact the country depends on farming for its own survival and very often farmers have to struggle to stay afloat. It must be said that most of what Liberals and Marxists know about farming is what they see when they visit a local supermarket.

"We need more housing, they say. We must build more houses." Why? To keep bringing in more and more people that will destabilise even more what is already a very precarious existence. If the land cannot sustain a bigger population, then population should be reduced towards the production optimum. If we can only manage to produce about 59% of the food the country needs, this means that the country is grossly over-populated.

 

Thursday, 26 January 2017

President Donald Trump is Real America

President Donald Trump is real America, the America of the miners, the farmers, the factory workers, the forgotten little people that are only seen when tragedy strikes and the time comes to put lives on the line of fire.

Who is Meryl Streep? Who's Alec Baldwin and Madonna? Who are they? Where were they when American miners, farmers, factory workers and the forgotten little people were losing their jobs? They were very comfortably living lives of plenty, blatantly unaware of the plight of the little people.

It is very good to walk around saving the Planet when others are losing their livelihoods and being left abandon at the side of the road. And this is what happened to America, when going to American ports you could easily tell the difference between the areas where things were coming in and things were going out. The areas of things coming in are full of containers loaded with foreign imports while the areas of things going out are practically empty. Did Meryl Streep worry about it? Did Alec Baldwin or Madonna worry about it? Did they even talk about it?

President Donald Trump represents the forgotten America, the America that has been abandoned, set aside. Make America Great Again means to give a voice to the millions of forgotten hard workers that don't happen to live in the cities of plenty but in the barren lands of despair. There is no Hollywood-style accolades for miners, farmers, factory workers and the forgotten little people. They are not constantly on display on television screens being paraded as examples of success - success based on the machinations of the mass media.

Reopen the collieries, bring back the farmers, bring back manufacturing and give hope to the little people that are true America. Charity begins at home. America belongs to the little people, the forgotten people, the people that the mass media and the political elites have ignored.