[Misc] Kemi Badenoch confirmed as new Tory leader

Sid and the Sharknados said:

Fascinating.

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fly high said:

Lets knock this bollocks on the head about properties with 5 to 10 ha of agricultural land being farms. They are just houses which due to history of the property ended up with some land. I live in a small village & within 250 yd radius of my house I can name 10 houses which come with a field or even a couple of fields not one of the is a farm. Some are used for pet horses, one for pet pigs, another for pet sheep, some are rented to real farmers for grazing/hay & a couple the field is just left because they can't be bothered to rent them, out even though they had tenants on the fields when they bought them.

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fly high said:

Lets knock this bollocks on the head about properties with 5 to 10 ha of agricultural land being farms. They are just houses which due to history of the property ended up with some land. I live in a small village & within 250 yd radius of my house I can name 10 houses which come with a field or even a couple of fields not one of the is a farm. Some are used for pet horses, one for pet pigs, another for pet sheep, some are rented to real farmers for grazing/hay & a couple the field is just left because they can't be bothered to rent them, out even though they had tenants on the fields when they bought them.

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BBassic said:

In other non acre / hectare related news, Priti Patel is back in (shadow) Government.

Can't say I've missed her smirking visage.

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carlzeiss said:

The Daily Mirror's take on the new Conservative and Unionists party's newly elected leader is unsurprisingly not positive

'Kemi Badenoch is not a Black success story - she is dangerous for us all'

The new Tory leader wouldn’t be anywhere near the job had she not been willing to say the kind of things that would see a white politician vilified, says Mirror columnist Darren Lewis

www.mirror.co.uk

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Sid and the Sharknados said:

I suggest you address this to the people at the government who compile the statistics about holding sizes.

As I wrote earlier, I don't give a shit either way about what qualifies as a "farm".

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nevergoagain said:

Does this count the same for poultry farms?, I'd assume they are way smaller than typical cow/sheep/crop farms but still farms nevertheless.

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fly high said:

Wasn't targeting you personally it's just you were the last to have any comment on it so apologies if you thought I was getting at you.

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Sid and the Sharknados said:

Here's a peak behind the curtain for everybody.

One of my teeth cracked in two the other day, and I've got an appointment this afternoon to have it removed/drilled out/whatever the hell they're going to do, so I'm on a slightly shorter fuse than usual.

Anyway, arguments over farm sizes- not interested. Potential confusion over units of measurement in some government statistics (including some CHARTS) - I'm all over that shit.

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Sid and the Sharknados said:

As I wrote earlier, I don't give a shit either way about what qualifies as a "farm".

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Bry Nylon said:

In a move that has taken experienced Westminster-watchers by surprise, @Sid and the Sharknados has been appointed the new Shadow Secretary of State for Agriculture.

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Sid and the Sharknados said:

I see Victoria Atkins has been appointed to that role, incidentally.

I'm only aware of her previously for that time a couple of months ago when she went mental in the house of commons, and I'm pretty sure she referred to Junior Doctors as Trainee Doctors while she was Health Secretary.

Not entirely confident she'll be on top of converting from hectares to acres. But maybe she'll surprise me.

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MP Victoria Atkins accused of 'hypocrisy' over legal cannabis farm

Campaigners for cannabis law reform say the MP directly benefited from the regulation of cannabis.

www.bbc.co.uk

Zeberdi said:

Genuine question RB (because I don’t want to get embroiled in the thread particulary) relating to a point I made above:

Dyslexia and the rights of people who are neurodivergent are obviously really important to you (as they are to me too) so what do you think of Kemi’s comments about autism and it being a mental health condition or just a form of ‘anxiety’ that people should ’work on themselves to improve’ and her implications that neurodivergence gives you opportunities and benefits not afforded to others ?

Do you think she would fairly represent neurodivergent people or even understand the nature of their condition and obstacles they face (which you yourself have raised many times) ?

Perhaps read the response of the autism society before you reply

Our response to Kemi Badenoch’s views on autism

The National Autistic Society has responded to Kemi Badenoch’s views on autism, as seen in the ‘Conservatism in Crisis’ pamphlet.

www.autism.org.uk

Kemi Badenoch pamphlet’s autism comments are as inaccurate as they are dangerous

The North West Essex MP and Conservative Party leadership candidate put her name to an essay titled Conservatism in Crisis, in which the authors – made up of current and ex-Tory politicians &…

liamodell.com

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Sid and the Sharknados said:

I see Victoria Atkins has been appointed to that role, incidentally.

I'm only aware of her previously for that time a couple of months ago when she went mental in the house of commons, and I'm pretty sure she referred to Junior Doctors as Trainee Doctors while she was Health Secretary.

Not entirely confident she'll be on top of converting from hectares to acres. But maybe she'll surprise me.

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