..and crap cars and bad teeth! Fudge it, bring back smoking, poor treatment of women and the IRA!
No fish, meat of eggs!
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Those aren't connected, Mr Troll.
The abolition of the Milk Marketing Board did not help us dairy farmers
Response: Thousands of farmers were ruined by Mrs Thatcher and rising supermarket power, says Anthony Bradley
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It certainly sounds like a better system. Abolished by Thatcher under The Agriculture Act 1993, be interesting to know the reasoning behind it.
A few months back I mentioned dairy to a young farmer (mainly sheep and a small beef herd) and he reckoned dairy farmers were doing OK at the moment on milk price, how long for though is another question.
... The number of cooperatives then dropped by 40% in the 10-year period leading up to 1930 and continued to decline over the next three decades (Eastham, 2012). Empson (1998) looked at the history of the Milk Marketing Board, described as the greatest commercial enterprise ever launched by British farmers, reporting that it served the industry for sixty years until its demise in 1994 due to pressure from the EU regulatory framework and as a result of political demands for greater competition. This perhaps indicates that cultural issues of cooperation are overstated and that given the right legal environment cooperatives could thrive in the UK again. ...
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Well that's interesting.
I called into my local large Lidl on Saturday lunchtime for some bread and rolls. I walked past the egg shelves. Apart from a few boxes that had been discarded because they held cracked and leaking eggs, they were empty. Free range, organic, factory and blue, all sold out.
Another victim of Thatcherism.
The kid who asks that question has recently been sent down for murder.
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That's the trouble you get in when you take the mickey out of Accrington Stanley fans..
That’s what happens when you have, then remove restrictions. Just like toilet rolls, pasta and paracetamol at the beginning of the pandemic, and the so-called fuel shortage, people panic buy in case they can’t get any next week. It'll settle down when it becomes common knowledge that you can buy some the following week. My local Sainsbury’s had every kind of egg last week - except large own-brand ones so I had to settle for medium ones. It was like eating pigeons eggs!
Why would people be panic buying now?
It's only a bit of snow, for Zark's sake!
It's only a bit of snow, for Zark's sake!
Human nature I suppose. Tell them that sardines are going to be hard to get because of bad weather and I guarantee that even those that don’t have sardines will be hoarding them.
I haven't eaten sardines since the 70s. Damned if i'm about to start now.
I love sardines in oil on toast. I sometimes eat them straight from the tin. I also buy them for my dog as a treat - mash one up and mix it in with her kibble, she loves it and it keeps her fur nice and shiny.
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