Good Boot Bad Boot Worse Boot
Oct. 12th, 2020 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootGood Boot
Among my good deeds I don't count making a Spanish omelette and baking some bread cos these were easy and delicious. No, I filled in a survey about the local water restoration project. There is a very small not quite wilderness between here and the middle of town, a tiny patch of land really. It hasn't been built on, I suspect because it's the remnants of marshland. Little brooks (burns they call them) run through it, there's life and tall trees and wildflowers. During lockdown the birdsong there was fantastic. So I filled in the survey and have volunteered to get involved. Let's see how far this goes.
Bad Boot
Indulged myself a little bit too much in online argument re the Agri bill. By and large in the UK, or more accurately, England, our farming sector was very pro Brexit. Our farmers never seem to have liked the EU despite receiving massive subsidies from it. At the time of the referendum, both the National Farmers Union and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, warned about how bad Brexit could be for them. As a demographic they ignored the advice and we are where we are. Now comes the Agri bill which will lead to, among other things, shall we say looser standards regarding food imports. This of course is needful for the govt to bolster them in negotiations with the EU, who are in the position where they can just stand there and leave us to it though for the sake of good will and fishing rights I think there will be more to it than that.
The farming sector and its supporters are now in consternation. Horror stories about chlorinated chicken and hormone injected everything from the terrible US! Have you tasted their cheese, ugh! Help us protest against this bill for the sake of food standards we were prepared to ditch 4 years ago! We must put pressure on our government with its pressure-cushioning majority that most of us gave them! Oh, and then there's food from developing countries* well clearly our govt cares more for those people* than about our dear old solid welly-wearing tractor-driving cider-drinking British farmers! It's white genocide or at least the downward spiral of sausage prices which seems remarkably close to the same thing.
God I am sick of them, sick of it all. I like Scotland but it is too close to the godawful mess that is the UK, and I envy the US its chance to free itself.
Worse Boot
Chuckled like a drain at The Boys Season 2 last night. Profane perfection.
*AKA Brown farmers, furreners eh, what what?
Among my good deeds I don't count making a Spanish omelette and baking some bread cos these were easy and delicious. No, I filled in a survey about the local water restoration project. There is a very small not quite wilderness between here and the middle of town, a tiny patch of land really. It hasn't been built on, I suspect because it's the remnants of marshland. Little brooks (burns they call them) run through it, there's life and tall trees and wildflowers. During lockdown the birdsong there was fantastic. So I filled in the survey and have volunteered to get involved. Let's see how far this goes.
Bad Boot
Indulged myself a little bit too much in online argument re the Agri bill. By and large in the UK, or more accurately, England, our farming sector was very pro Brexit. Our farmers never seem to have liked the EU despite receiving massive subsidies from it. At the time of the referendum, both the National Farmers Union and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, warned about how bad Brexit could be for them. As a demographic they ignored the advice and we are where we are. Now comes the Agri bill which will lead to, among other things, shall we say looser standards regarding food imports. This of course is needful for the govt to bolster them in negotiations with the EU, who are in the position where they can just stand there and leave us to it though for the sake of good will and fishing rights I think there will be more to it than that.
The farming sector and its supporters are now in consternation. Horror stories about chlorinated chicken and hormone injected everything from the terrible US! Have you tasted their cheese, ugh! Help us protest against this bill for the sake of food standards we were prepared to ditch 4 years ago! We must put pressure on our government with its pressure-cushioning majority that most of us gave them! Oh, and then there's food from developing countries* well clearly our govt cares more for those people* than about our dear old solid welly-wearing tractor-driving cider-drinking British farmers! It's white genocide or at least the downward spiral of sausage prices which seems remarkably close to the same thing.
God I am sick of them, sick of it all. I like Scotland but it is too close to the godawful mess that is the UK, and I envy the US its chance to free itself.
Worse Boot
Chuckled like a drain at The Boys Season 2 last night. Profane perfection.
*AKA Brown farmers, furreners eh, what what?
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2020-10-22 11:14 am (UTC)I've had to suggest to Furtle that she not watch it when she inquired. I very much doubt that she could cope with the gore...
no subject
Date: 2020-10-24 09:53 am (UTC)But it's so good even Billy Butcher's accent can't diminish it!