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  1. matelot
    ehhhmmm, the point I was making that most businesses that have property pay business rates to fund essential services like schools/ road repairs etc. But farms pay nothing at all.....
  2. matelot
    I don't like haggling, but when it comes to car insurance etc. I always play the "I've got a cheaper price elsewhere game". Saving £20 is worth it for 10 minutes work. My brother plays a similar game with Sky telly, he tries the old "your product is very expensive and I wish to cancel" and get's 50% off for 6 months.
  3. matelot
    Farmers get other subsidies as well.. they don't have to pay business rates... How can it be right that someone with a small shop pays business rates but someone with a £5m farm pays nothing?
  4. matelot
    Farmers get other subsidies as well... they don't have to pay any business rates on their farms... how can it possible be right that someone with a small corner shop pays business rates but someone with a £5m farm pays nothing?
  5. matelot
    Yeah, JK would never spread to the OP's garden...
  6. matelot
    Yeah everyone knows that Germany is building up it's U boat fleet to try and starve Britain into staying in the EU... I just don't see food production as being a major part of the UK economy in coming years... If we can buy food from other places it's possible that places like Africa will be less of a sh1t hole. The taxpayer pays a fortune in subsidies for farmers and the immigrants that the farmers need. It might be better to invest that money elsewhere... Where does a lot of UK animal feed come from? South America? I don't see anything great about cutting down rainforests so that UK dairy farmers can import soya based feedstuffs... Before people had alarm clocks there used to be a person that went round at 6am each morning and rattled peoples windows with a long stick to wake them up. Things just move on..
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    As previously said we pay taxes so farmers can get their subsidies... Perhaps if people paid the 'real' price of food they wouldn't waste so much.... I get the train through Scotland a lot, I see a lot of strawberry farms with dozens of people working there. It's fairly certain that they will be East european workers getting a fortune in benefits etc. I honestly think if we import more food it would be cheaper for us as we wouldn't have to pay the farmers subsidies and pay to subsidise all the farmers Imported labour. EU subsidies also mess up African farmers as they can't compete against food dumped from Europe.
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    I've a 50 foot oak I want taken down, will it cost £125?
  9. matelot
    Throughout most of my working life I've been on a salary. Over the last year I've been self employed. Is it just me, or when you're self employed are you really reluctant to take holidays? I cant help thinking if I take a week off it costs me double as I don't earn and have to shell out for a holiday.
  10. matelot
    I wonder if this "buy British" philosophy will mean farmers stop buying Toyota and Mitsubishi pick ups?
  11. matelot
    I made a log store for my parents from Gabon baskets (they are wire mesh baskets used in civil engineering to hold stone). I made the roof from plywood. Worked out at £100 for a 2 cubic metre store.
  12. matelot
    Interesting link. One quote that caught my eye was: "Sean Rickard told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today that dairy farmers were paid an average of £28,000 a year from the taxpayer."
  13. matelot
    what types of subsidy will the landowner get?
  14. matelot
    I presume the Forestry Commission is happy with the land being changed to grazing? Typically the felling licence requires that the land is replanted with trees.... I cant help thinking that taking out 21 acres of stumps is a big expense for little real reward.
  15. matelot
    What sound system have you got in the lada Niva? I usually find some hard core dance music gets the team going throughout the day. you have to set volume to max though to make sure everyone can hear it above the saws etc. Quality speakers are a must for anyone wanting to run a tree team. Cheap speakers are just p1sh at high volume.
  16. matelot
    Steep site and removing stumps could be a bit of a nightmare when it comes to soil erosion....
  17. matelot
    Remember a nice early start always makes a good impression. If I was you I'd be out there at 6am tomorrow morning. Just make sure the client knows you're there early by knocking on the door as soon as you get there with a couple of mugs in your hand.
  18. matelot
    It seems strange to me that farmers think it a good idea to blockade one of Morrison's distribution centres. If I was a boss at Morrison's I wouldn't take kindly to being blackmailed... Anyway, I'm off to padlock myself to my bosses car so he will give me a pay rise.
  19. matelot
    Do you have plenty extension cables for the garden shredder? You'd feel a bit of a clown if you set your shredder up and the cable never reached the customers house.
  20. matelot
    whenever I read your posts I imagine someone that's permanently drunk! (no disrespect intended - you seem a good guy)
  21. matelot
    I can only assume that someone is forcing dairy farmers to keep producing milk despite years of the milk price being below production costs.. You would think that an industry like milk would be profitable in the UK due to there being little foreign competition ie short life span and low value/high bulk product.
  22. matelot
    Who would have thought that producing more of a commodity would lower it's price? 14 billion litres of milk produced in .... that's about 200 litres of milk for each man/ woman/ child in the UK... "UK milk production hits a 20-year high as quotas end UK dairy farmers produced 14.394bn litres in the final year of milk quota – the highest annual production since at least 1994-95. According to provisional data from the RPA, milk production totalled 1.262bn litres in March – 5m litres above last year and also the highest since for the month in 20 years." UK milk production hits a 20-year high as quotas end - Farmers Weekly
  23. matelot
    Other industries like deep cast coal mining/ textiles/ consumer electronic production/ ship building etc have left Britain because they were uneconomic. I know this will sound heartless, but I don't really see what the big deal is if some milk farmers cease production. When the shipyards closed down the sites were empty for decades, at least with the farming industry it's likely that dairy farms could be turned into beef farms etc within a few days...
  24. matelot
    For as long as I remember farmers have been complaining about how hard done to they are. They do get fairly generous subsidies and don't have to pay business rates etc. I really don't know what more they want...
  25. matelot
    The first thing I would be doing is contacting the housing association. If they are "neighbours from hell" they might hopefully be getting evicted soon.

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