Soilman

I’m a day or two behind with reaction to the government’s food security announcement. That’s because it’s taken me a day or two to stop choking and issue a coherent sentence in response. So here, at last, is my reaction:

What a load of utter bollocks.

The state of food production in this country has got precisely FUCK ALL to do with farmers, fishermen, allotmenteers or anyone else mentioned in this crazy announcement. On the contrary, it’s all down to the organisations never mentioned once: supermarkets and a succession of greedy, ignorant, fuckwitted UK Governments building over our countryside and wrapping red tape in ever tighter circles around the country’s actual food producers.

I’ve wittered on and on about this on this blog (and to any poor bastard luckless enough to share a room with me). If you don’t know anything about farming in Britain (and chances are, you don’t – 80% of Brits are townees, and one third live in the 10 most populous cities), you just can’t imagine how difficult farming in Britain has become… or how old, penurious, put upon and pissed off UK farmers are.

And these people are growing/rearing the food you eat.

I’d love to say I’m pleased that at least the Government appears to have recognised the problem… even if its ‘solutions’ are barmy. But I can’t, because it’s not true. That they can spout this deluded crap serves only to show how disconnected they are from reality.