Brecon and Radnor by-election on Thursday

Or maybe they could come up with a radical plan, I'm sure that the great business minds can come up with better ideas than me but here's one for a starter, instead of slaughtering all those sheep how about just lowering the price to make it more affordable.

You mean below the price that the farmers need? Who will make up the difference - will the taxpayer have to permanently fund the sheep-rearing industry because the government is determined to bring in a Singapore economic model at any cost as an ideological matter?

Of course, in reality, the Singapore model precludes any such subsidy, so the sheep industry will go to hell in a handbasket and Boris won't give a flying ****, no matter how many sheep he's is photographed with.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/economy/agriculture/news/105660/farmers-warn-boris-johnson-stop-playing-russian-roulette

Back in the day, the Common Market had a beef mountain, a butter mountain and a wine lake of produce for which there was no market which was bought by Brussels at "intervention" prices. One of Thatcher, Kohl and Mitterand's great achievements was to eliminate them.

Boris has decided that Brexit Britain needs a mutton mountain.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/no-deal-brexit-500m-plan-to-help-farmers-bx5pnx9qq

You mean below the price that the farmers need? Who will make up the difference - will the taxpayer have to permanently fund the sheep-rearing industry because the government is determined to bring in a Singapore economic model at any cost as an ideological matter?

Of course, in reality, the Singapore model precludes any such subsidy, so the sheep industry will go to hell in a handbasket and Boris won't give a flying ****, no matter how many sheep he's is photographed with.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/economy/agriculture/news/105660/farmers-warn-boris-johnson-stop-playing-russian-roulette

This will be a very interesting result to all parties, will give the lay of the land so to speak, in a seat which should you would think remain conservative.

I have no doubt that the idiots in the brexit party will run, and will do undoubtedly better than some other parties. Issue is, they have one goal. Brexit. You want brexit, you vote for the brexit party. If you want remain who do you vote for? Most likely labour, however this isn’t a labour strong seat.

Perhaps the Brexit sheep megacull will be an issue in Brecon & Radnorshire.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17777157.39-mass-sheep-cull-part-no-deal-brexit-contingency-39-mp/

Around 40% of British sheep go to export and of those, 96% arrive in the EU. If we go into Boris's Hard Brexit, there will be EU quotas on those, meaning they won't be sold, so huge numbers will have to be slaughtered.

Or maybe they could come up with a radical plan, I'm sure that the great business minds can come up with better ideas than me but here's one for a starter, instead of slaughtering all those sheep how about just lowering the price to make it more affordable.

Like many of your liberal elite remainers perhaps you should profit from your emotionalism and short Lamb futures.

Thanks to widespread farming subsidies across the EU, its barely profitable to farm.

More likely they'll just dump lamb onto the British market at whatever price the supermarkets will take it to recoup what they can.

There are lamb futures? What do they consist of? Bits of mutton snuck into exchange traded instruments?

You absurdly simplify the position re: subsidies. The EU runs a protectionist farming policy, subsidies and all, because the smaller European fields and less completely, overwhelmingly industrialised agribusiness models would otherwise be destroyed in an instant by the superfarms of the US, Canada and Brazil. Personally I prefer our nice British and European cheeses to the GM chemicalised alternatives about to be forced down our throats as part of the post-Hard Brexit trade 'deal' with the US. (Eg, we take every US product, they take Scotch Whisky at a heavy discount.)

The lamb futures depend where they are, anywhere near me and it will consist of a very hot place and some mint sauce, in Wales it consists of large hairy farmers and nights under the stars.

There are lamb futures? What do they consist of? Bits of mutton snuck into exchange traded instruments?

You absurdly simplify the position re: subsidies. The EU runs a protectionist farming policy, subsidies and all, because the smaller European fields and less completely, overwhelmingly industrialised agribusiness models would otherwise be destroyed in an instant by the superfarms of the US, Canada and Brazil. Personally I prefer our nice British and European cheeses to the GM chemicalised alternatives about to be forced down our throats as part of the post-Hard Brexit trade 'deal' with the US. (Eg, we take every US product, they take Scotch Whisky at a heavy discount.)

You mean a trade deal negotiated on our behalf by the UK Prime Minister who until four years ago held US citizenship?

You mean a trade deal negotiated on our behalf by the UK Prime Minister who until four years ago held US citizenship?

That will give him all he needs to negotiate a trade deal with the same skill he demonstrated over his personal tax affairs.

https://www.artiopartners.com/renounce/boris-johnson-pays-irs-tax-bill/

Farmers are threatening Boris with mass civil unrest over Hard Brexit.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/welsh-farmers-very-strong-message-16666928

This didn't go well for Blair last time it happened - which was over surging fuel prices, something likely to happen again soon if the pound doesn't recover or continues to fall.

As excited as some of the left will get at this idea, it is a politically motivated union threatening this rather than ordinary farmers. I suspect the Tories would like nothing more than Scargill 2.0.

It will be intriguing to see if the new highs in fuel prices about to hit will cause troubles. The anti-Blair protests that farmers led back in the 2000s were independent actions by small local groups, although there were apparently suspicions at the time that they were led by Kippers.

With Sterling already depreciating ahead of time slowly the collapse in no deal will be muted a little, as will any sudden rise in fuel prices. In addition, we are not looking at stonking rises so I doubt we will see protests.