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When the Baboons and Monkeys heard that the Man who used to chase them away from the maize field had died, they hysterically celebrated. The following year, there was no maize, that is when they painfully realized the dead Man was the Farmer!
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We support small businesses, they’re the background to the country and we’re cutting red tape. Meanwhile here’s some new rules and more red tape for you!
Announced today: we are slashing red tape to get government off the backs of small business. Companies House, five hours later: we're still shutting the free web portal and forcing every company in Britain to buy software to file its accounts.
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Replying to @Telegraph
They hate small business owners. ERSNI to increase costs NMW to increase costs Power costs to increase costs Now they tax the exit more Killing SMEs.
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For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️
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Another crazy incident in our old house (now sold) - We got visited by an official from the planning department for Bedfordshire Borough Council Why? Because Zoe’s (age 12) toy cafe got reported for illegal trading. I kid you not. We had to show the lady around our property to prove we weren’t running an illegal operation.
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My latest recruitment project is now live 🚜 NEW ROLE | WORKING FARM MANAGER 📍 Caxton, West Cambridgeshire | 600ha A genuinely hands-on management role - leading the farm and making key decisions, while still drilling, spraying and combining. 🌱 Progressive, forward-thinking business 🏡 Accommodation available 💷 Excellent salary package Interested? Let’s have an informal chat 👇
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Absolutely this!
Have you noticed that when backing out of a parking space pedestrians no longer stop and wait? They walk right across the path of your moving vehicle. That didn't happen twenty years ago. Backup cameras, rear cross-traffic radar, and warning chimes haven't just changed the car—they've retrained the pedestrian to assume the machine will see them and stop. Every safety system rewrites the habits of the people around it. Unintended consequences.
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This is insane. This High Protein Beef mince in Lidl is only 60% beef. There’s nothing on the front label. It’s only when you turn over the ingredients you see it’s 20% pea protein and the other 20% is water and seasoning .. you are buying 40% less meat than you think.!
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That's funny because at my last strategy meeting with my accountant, they informed me I must use HMRC-recognised Making Tax Digital compatible software, creating an oligopoly for firms like Xero. I must now also report my company's income every three months rather than once a year, as well as a final report at year end. So I now have to pay for a Xero subscription. And pay my accountant more for the increased submissions. And fuck about with reconciling every three months, rather than once a year. For HMRC to end up with the same amount of income from me as before. Fuck off. Just fuck off. Fuck off all the way back to Yorkshire, then fuck off some more.
British firms are fed up with pointless paperwork and form-filling. Today we are cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, reducing costs and giving businesses the breathing space they need to invest, innovate and create good jobs.
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Irony!😂 IYKYK @Pxfarms
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Why mention @Dyson in the clickbait headline when the product in question isn’t remotely connected to Dyson - let’s face it, if you are buying a £12 hairdryer it probably isn’t likely to be the best or safest on the market!🙄
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Grieving father fights for same cancer treatment access as patients in England itv.com/watch/news/grieving-…
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Sunday Times reports 5 SAS soldiers hunting ISIS in Syria came under fire, shot two men, and were cleared by the first review. Then arrested for double murder. Homes raided. Sent back behind enemy lines 48 hours after questioning. All five have since left.
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I remember a time when articles like this included some Gross Margin / Financial analysis…. Now it’s only about Carbon Footprint….🙄
Trial shows beans can cut carbon footprint of spring barley - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/VNZyOE
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Replying to @aZote800
a chap we know got stuck in a traffic jam on the A14 and a lorry he had loaded half an hour earlier was 10 vehicles in front of him.. 2 hours later he got an email with claims against his load, he sent them a photo of the lorry still stick in front of him.. he has not paid for seed since !
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J'ai vu une Tesla décoller. Et j'ai entendu beaucoup de bêtises. « Ça ne sert à rien. » « Gadget de milliardaire. » « Qui a besoin d'une voiture qui vole ? » Personne. Et c'est exactement pour ça que c'est important. En 1978, Brabham a aligné en Formule 1 une voiture équipée d'un ventilateur géant à l'arrière. Il aspirait l'air sous le châssis et plaquait la voiture au sol. Elle a gagné sa première course avec une avance insolente. Elle a été interdite immédiatement. Quarante-huit ans plus tard, on y revient. Un système de succion qui colle la voiture à la route et lui permet de passer sous la seconde au 0 à 100. Personne n'a « besoin » de faire le 0 à 100 en moins d'une seconde. Comme personne n'a besoin d'une Formule 1. Et pourtant : les freins carbone de votre berline, l'hybridation de votre moteur, l'aérodynamique de votre SUV, les palettes au volant — tout ça vient de voitures de course que personne n'utilisera jamais pour aller au travail. La Formule 1 ne sert à rien. Pourtant elle sert à tout. En 1973, quand la France a lancé Ariane, l'Europe sortait de onze échecs consécutifs du programme Europa. La presse parlait d'argent jeté dans l'espace. Vingt ans plus tard, Ariane détenait la moitié du marché mondial des lancements commerciaux, et chaque satellite de télévision, de météo ou de GPS que vous utilisez a bénéficié de cette obstination. Le progrès a toujours la même tête au début : un truc inutile, cher, ridicule, construit par des gens qu'on prend pour des fous. Ce que j'ai vu à Dallas, ce n'est pas une voiture volante. C'est un châssis, une gestion de l'énergie et une maîtrise des flux d'air que l'industrie automobile mettra dix ans à digérer. Les applications viendront : sécurité, freinage, stabilité, consommation. Elles finiront dans des voitures ordinaires conduites par des gens qui expliqueront, en 2036, que tout ça était évident. La question n'est jamais « à quoi ça sert ». La question est : qui ose encore construire des choses qui ne servent à rien ? Il y a cinquante ans, c'était nous. La fusée, le TGV, le Concorde, le Minitel. L'Europe construisait des choses absurdes et magnifiques. Aujourd'hui, on commente depuis le siège arrière car nous sommes hors course. Merci @elonmusk de nous faire rêver
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'Britain is back'. Back where? Back living at its mum's house, skint, and sleeping in the box room?
Andy Burnham’s message to the world is clear: Britain is back 🇬🇧
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Just imagine walking into almost any private business. “Morning mate. I’d like substantially more money, one fewer working day, no loss of pay, stronger protections against redundancy and if you don’t fancy it I might stop working altogether.” Meanwhile Dave running a plumbing business is working six days a week trying to work out which new tax is going to kick him in the bollocks next.
🚨 NEW: Civil servants will vote next week on whether to strike for a 4-day work week on full pay and a 10% pay rise
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interesting article in today’s @thetimes about the 71% decline in hedgehog numbers between 1981 and 2023. Only a small mention of badgers, their main predators, which became a protected species in late 1973 - surely some sort of correlation?
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Just to spell it out: 1. Folic acid is being added to some gluten free products by manufacturers 2. Wholemeal flour is exempt but almost all wholemeal bread contains folic acid. 3. Avoiding bread will not be enough when it is in the FLOUR in numerous products. Sign petition.
It’s official: people are completely clueless about the reality of adding synthetic folic acid to non-wholemeal flour. The responses I'm getting show total confusion: 🧵 "I only eat gluten-free bread now." 🧵 "I only buy supermarket wholemeal." 🧵 "I’m avoiding bread altogether."
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I guess if the @Fendt_UKIreland driver is a @JohnDeere man at heart you have to make some concessions 😂
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What do they say about Yin and Yang @No1FarmerJake 😂
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