Whenever I see sensible people wasting breath replying to the hard of thinking and bitter twisted old tories, my message is the same.
I salute your indefatigability.
With the additional but equally valid point that it is more complicated than the protesting farmers are suggesting (and of course they are protesting because they don't like it) that's probably an ideal place to end this thread.
rb (as it was) used to post on NSC and on the old mailing list. I have an amusing photo (old school - on Kodak paper) of me and Ralph chatting in a pub (could have been the end of season match at Vale Park many years ago) with me looking obviously thrilled, and in the background someone else who...
Yes, it has been pretty civil. There have been some excellent attempts to unravel the landscape, which is rum in itself, with Thatcher apparently introducing some sort of extreme form of socialism (aka giving a massive state handout) in the 1980s to farmers in terms of an inheritance tax waiver...