Was it just me - maybe it was - but was Peter Kendall in a bit of a bad mood today?
Have a look at the Farmers Guardian debate and judge for yourself.
Peter seemed very keen to have a go at me and the RSPB whatever I said.
And how predictable to see NFU mouthpiece Guy Smith going back to criticising the FBI - there is precious little acceptance, by the NFU President or by Guy Smith, that there is a problem with farmland birds. The NFU's attitude to the environment may be summed up by Peter Kendall's phrase 'wrapping (farmers) in green tape'. Remember please, NFU, that's the taxpayers' money you get and so there do have to be some rules attached to it.
But very good to see lots of good comments - many I guess from farmers who are working closely with the RSPB in all sorts of ways.
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A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
Yes it is tax payers money Mark and the part that farmers get relatively small and the part for wildlife even smaller still as probably 90% at least of population if given subsidised food or subsidised wildlife would choose food.You ought to remember that people like me give the RSPB subs similar to subsidies in most respects and of course we accept that we will not be happy with everything the RSPB does with our money so surely you have to expect that you will not be happy with how all your tax is used,bet some of that far more misused than the part farmers get.