2025-02-16
There are also other sobriquets out there that many may feel inappropriate in polite conversation.
The Daily Sceptic reveals that a story they ran showing how Big Finance may have influenced certain politicians to change the taxation rules on farmers in such a way that Big Finance might better acquire their properties elicited not so much as an acknowledgement from the NFU.
Now one can understand that not everyone wants to get involved with politics, but unhappily politicians don't reciprocate by not wishing to get involved in everyone's affairs, so that's a losing strategy if ever there was one.
Perhaps the farmers were hoping that the NFU would look after their politcal interests for them, thus relieving them of an irksome burden?
So is the NFU merely asleep on the job, or does it really serve the farmers' interests?
On the other hand I am no farmer, so maybe the NFU really is negotiating behind the scenes but doesn't want to go public about it ...
