According to our correspondent it was minus seven Centigrade on her farm in the rural Midlands first light this morning - she has also kindly provided a couple of images to prove it! Brrrr.

Land & People reported a few days ago how millions of litres of milk are now being imported into Britain each week from, in the main, Eastern Europe. Two other stories, barely mentioned by the media, further illustrate the continuing dismantlement of a former world-class industry.

 

We discovered before Christmas that just 26% of Britain’s dairy farmers produced 57% of our milk last year. We further learnt that 43% of Britain’s dairy farmers produced just 15% of the country’s annual milk yield.

 

Now here’s the important bit – the 43% represents some 6,300 small farmers – whilst the 26% includes the growing corporate farming sector - that is, companies rather than family run farms. In a country where the economics of “economies of scale” are all important, reason suggests that an awful lot of the 6,300 smaller men don’t have much, if any, future in the industry.

 

And, to ram this point home, we make mention of our second story.

 

Yesterday we were told that both Arla Foods and First Milk – both major milk retailers – are to cut their January prices. Regular visitors to this site will recall we reported back in the autumn how dairy farmers were hoping for an increase in the price of milk sold to retailers this year. The fact that major retailers are CUTTING prices suggests that far from dairy farmers getting an increase for their produce, that they are likely to be forced to take a reduction. What does this mean? Well, it means that the small man, in particular, will be selling milk for less than the cost of production and will be, yet again, utterly dependent upon EU subsidy money to keep afloat!

 

Good news for supermarket profits – but extremely bad news for dairy farmers in general and the small dairyman in particular.

 

Yet – it has to be said – those dairy farmers who have traditionally voted CONservative have only themselves to blame! Supporting a corrupt political party that befriends the supermarkets and other retailers, whilst promoting the British farming-apathetic EU, makes about as much sense as turkeys voting for Christmas! 

 

For goodness sake you dairy producers – wake up to political realities whilst you still have a livelihood and an industry left!     

Thanks to the efforts of Baroness Stern, a cross-bench peer, we now know that not only has there has been a tidal wave of legislation under this Labour regime (an estimated 3,600 new offences have been created). But that an amazing 1,036 of them can result in a prison sentence. And these are only those that one official could identify. There may well be more.

To put this into some sort of perspective, in 1997, there were 52 imprisonable new laws; by 2003, the annual tally was 181, there were another 174 in 2005 and 133 in 2007.

As Lady Stern says: “The Government has gone mad in looking to use criminal justice law as a way to deal with social problems. It is extraordinary.” In it’s Lemming like urge to legislate this government in particular has failed to distinguish between what constitutes a crime and what is a social wrongdoing. The result is a seriously warped criminal justice system.

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The intention of officials within Lancashire County Council to fit ‘electronic tags’ to eldery people has been reported in the national press over the week-end. But it must not be left at that, a headline grabbing story to sell newspapers.

So we at Land & People ask you to take a moment to send a message of revulsion at this plan to Lancashire C.C. The ‘tagging’ of frail elderly people must not be allowed to happen!! And only ‘people power’ has a chance of preventing it. Contact details provided at the end of this article.

Hazel Harding Council Leader

Clearly, it must be against their, ‘Human Rights’, to be have to wear ‘tags’, like a common criminal. Certainly it is an affront to their human dignity! Will it therefore only be the indigenous elderly [read white people] who would be ‘tagged’? After all we’ve already seen too many instances of white Britons being treated as second class citizens in their own land!

This is a truly outrageous plan, dreamt up by unfeeling ‘jobsworths’ to divert a few more pounds into their pension funds. We exaggerate to make the point - but even so, doesn’t it seem wrong to you that it is always the most vulnerable that get hurt by council cuts, whereas the salaries of council bureaucrats never decrease - ever!

And to add insult to injury, this idea, which has been floated simply to save money is floated at the same time as our so called Government is somehow able to send £8 million in aid to Gaza whilst treating its own elderly in this appalling way!

A report from a national newspaper can be read here

Do please write and express your contempt to all concerned today.

e-mail
enquiries@css.lancscc.gov.uk
Phone:
0845 053 0000
Fax:
01772 533015

Contact the Chief Executive Officer here:
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Social Services:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/social-services/contact/index.asp

on-line complaint form:
https://lccsecure.lancashire.gov.uk/social_services/cccprocess/process.asp

Contact details for individual councillors can be found here:
http://www.councillor.info/lancashire.aspx

During the course of 2008 a number of enterprising BNP branches and regions made the effort to set up a stall at county and agricultural shows and fairs. Reports from Wales, the eastern counties and the north west of England confirm that these activities are excellent in terms of meeting the public and for distributing literature.

So why not plan to attend an event (or two) near you this year?

To assist in this venture Land and People have provided a link to the Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations (ASAO), which list scores of rural events scheduled for this year.

Why not spend a few minutes perusing the list and noting down the details of those shows and fairs in your area or region worth attending?

The ASAO site can be found here .

BNP at Car Boot Sales.

On a related theme, a reader recently suggested that branches pay the £5 or so for a table at car boot sales to sell Party merchandise and publications. It seems such an obvious idea - yet we have not heard of a single branch doing this. If any branches have tried car-booting for paper and merchandise sales we would be interested to know how you got on.

All over Britain our ancient woods are under threat as Government agencies seek out more land for “development” to build the roads, housing estates and infrastructure needed to accommodate “our” rocketing population – much of it from overseas!

 

To attract awareness to the growing threat to our rural heritage Woodwatch have produced a short video that we link to below. In addition the Woodland Trust have produced a computer facility that allows you to find ancient woodland near you – so that you can keep an eye on it and alert them to any perceived threats to it.

 

The Woodland Trust facility may be found here .

We reproduce a posting from an “EU-aware” farmer that recently appeared on a web based farming forum. We have not the slightest doubt that the views expressed are widely shared within Britain’s beleaguered farming community.

 

Simply ignore the EU and work whatever hours are necessary to do our job properly! The bureaucrats in Europe have probably never been on a farm and they should not try to introduce schemes which will reduce food production and increase the price. EU useless schemes;

 

(1) EID (electronic identification) for sheep.

(2) Spray withdrawal.

(3) SFP (Single Farm Payment) payments on-line for all to see.

(4) Nitrates Directive. Who is going to put on excess fertiliser at the price to see it being washed away?

(5)Slurry spreading should be weather related, not date related. What happens if we have a dry Jan and then when season opens on 1 Feb, the rain starts and 100,000 farmers go out on the same day to spread slurry?

(6) Most decisions and directives not based on science.

(7)Why have 22 weeks slurry storage when our cows are only 8 weeks in shed?

(8) With global warming grass now growing earlier and later in UK, conditions far different from the Continent. One size fits all is lunacy.

(9) We want “freedom to farm”, too much interference from EU. We know how to look after our stock. We know how to look after our land. We know how to transport our stock. Pollution comes mainly from the towns. We could reduce pressure on landfill sites if we could bury our rubbish. We could reduce our costs and cut atmospheric pollution if we could bury our dead animals instead of having them burnt. It was farmers and no-one else who made the countryside the beautiful place it is today, and all with no interference from the EU !!!

 

The World is heading for famine. Maybe they will see sense when the supermarket shelves are empty and millions are dead from starvation. Food production comes first, let the farmers get on with it, we do not need or want the EU any longer, lets ignore them !!!

Come the EU elections in June a great many British farmers will remember the “contribution” of the assorted allowances and expenses claiming CONservative, ZaNu, Lib-Dem, UKIP and Green MEPs to British farming - and voting BNP as a consequence!

According to Hazel Blears, who holds the brief of ‘Communities Secretary’. ‘White‘ working class people on some estates feel their concerns about immigration are ignored.

Well surprise, surprise, the woman states the blooming obvious!

But the so called ‘concern’ that Blears has expressed has precious little to do with the concerns of ordinary Britons.  Rather it has everything to do with concerns about keeping her seat in Parliament.

The truth of this is born out by another comment made to the BBC by Blears: ‘politicians have to make a greater effort to challenge “myths” spread by the far right.’

There we have it, the real concern of Blears, as it is with many other Labour MP’s, is the progress of the BNP in the Labour heartlands.  The myths Blears talks about are in fact the truths that she and her ilk have denied for too long as they sought to curry favour with ethnic minorities, especial those with Islamic beliefs.

In the drive to obtain votes from this wave of new comers Labour has totally ignored the needs and aspirations of the ordinary working man.  That the working man has woken up to this truth, and has turned to the BNP is not the result of Myth Hazel Blears, it’s a situation of your own making, and you are about to reap the reward ofr your arrogant distain for those you were put into Parliament to represent!

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Press reports mentioned yesterday that ‘Council Tax’ bills may rise even further because of a £600 million “black hole” in town hall finances caused by the economic downturn.

If councils in England were forced to pass on the entire cost of meeting the shortfall, council tax bills could have to rise by about £30 per household, pushing up the tax on an average band D household to £1,466.

The news comes after a survey found that more than two thirds of council officers are predicting council tax rises of more than three per cent - three times the expected inflation rate of one per cent next year.

Councils typically hold £26billion in cash on deposit with banks, generating around £1.5billion in interest every year. The cash is held as emergency reserves to fund local authority services.

However, a Local Government Association survey, which will be released next week, has found that town halls are forecasting a 44 per cent fall in income after interest paid by banks on deposits halved to 2.6 per cent.

This equates to a £642million fall in council cash to pay for local services such as meals on wheels for the elderly.

Council spokesmen have been at pains to reassure their taxpayers that despite these difficulties, no Chief Executive, or other senior officials, will suffer any financial loss or loss of perks!

A fuller report on this topic may be found here

 

It is claimed that farm production could plummet this year with milk, lamb supplies and cereal stocks coming under pressure. The warning comes from a senior representative of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), who is concerned that a combination of factors will lead to a potentially disastrous slump in output. Factors mentioned include over-regulation by officials, a greedy attitude from the major retailers, and bad weather leading to difficult harvest conditions - all could serve to further reduce the nation’s production capacity and food security.

 

The NFU spokesman is quoted as saying: “In talking at length to farmers across the country, many of them report some real threats to their businesses. The credit squeeze is making a major dent in producers’ confidence in dealing with the high costs of farm inputs, like animal feed, fertiliser and diesel.”

 

However the dairy sector has been highlighted as being in particular jeopardy from falling output.

 

The NFU spokesman continued: “Dairy farmers tell me that milk production will fall to perilously low levels. Many dairy farmers are anxiously waiting to see whether the spring will bring stability or the same price pressures that have seen a collapse in prices around the EU. On top of that, they are facing costs in excess of £50,000 per farm to install slurry storage to meet EU regulations.”

 

This added burden comes about directly as a consequence of Brown’s EU Quisling regime’s implementation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) throughout much of England – a regulation that is wholly unnecessary as adequate safeguards are already in place to counter the problems of nitrate seepage from animal slurry into water courses.

 

If this news wasn’t bad enough it has also been revealed that Britain’s milk production has fallen to a level which requires an increasing reliance on imports. Incredibly, in a land once self sufficient in milk, it is now estimated that decreasing annual production now requires the importation of around one million lirtes of milk, largely from eastern Europe, per day!

 

Should we wonder at this – considering the thousands of dairy farmers whose livelihoods have been ruined by CONservative apathy and ZaNu Labour hostility over the last twenty years?

 

What Britain’s shrinking farming industry needs, above all else, is a government actively supportive of it. Such support will not come from internationalist parties such as CONservative and ZaNu Labour – parties controlled by the EU and, consequently, furthering the interests of the EU over those of the nation. Only a nationalist government – a government that recognises the vital importance of food security – will give the industry the backing it so desperately needs.

 

In our nationalist Britain, self-sufficiency, or as near as we can get to it, will be the priority. The following is an overview of what we, Land & People, propose – we call it The Five Principles.

 

The Five Principles.

 

Land & People is supportive of the following five basic principles, which it promotes with a view to their adoption and incorporation into British Nationalist agricultural policy.

 

(1)     We propose an expansion in British farming through increasing the number of family run farms and the vigorous promotion of farming as a vocation. This could involve the State acquisition of agricultural land and its redistribution in either freehold or rental parcels to new farmers, on advantageous terms. We believe the future of British farming should be centred on the yeoman farmer – not giant, often foreign-owned, agricultural combines who would reduce our countryside to GM polluted prairies in their reckless pursuit of profit.  

 

(2)     We propose an expansion in farming output to meet the agricultural needs of the nation as far as such is possible. The quality of home produced food is amongst the best in the world; therefore increasing the proportion of fresh home-grown food in the national diet makes for a healthier nation. In addition, as home demand presently hugely exceeds home production, there should be no reason why any competent farmer, afforded an even commercial playing field through State intervention, should not enjoy a stable and rewarding future in the industry.

 

(3)     We propose the securing of the home market for the benefit of British producers through the imposition of tariffs on those imported foodstuffs that undermine our home markets and, thus, detrimental both to British producers and to the food security of the nation.

 

(4)     We propose the provision of non-usurious finance credit for the farming industry through the proposed State owned National Reconstruction Bank. The current exploitative system, which sees the industry currently saddled with some £12 billion of debt and the banks sucking between £0.5 billion and £1.0 billion out of the industry in interest and other changes annually, is detrimental to the industry and to the nation’s food security.

 

(5)     We propose State intervention in establishing annual baseline farm gate pricing which reflect the true cost of production and which factors in the minimum profit margin required to ensure the profitability, and thus the security, of Britain’s farming industry. The gross exploitation of farmers and other producers by the giant retailing cartels and banks, something the Westminster parties have turned a blind eye to for decades for reasons of self-interest, must end and a commercial playing field that recognises the worth and importance of the farming industry to the nation introduced as a matter of the greatest urgency.