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The View from The Hill and sometimes further Often grumpy but usually polite. Apparently a "lefty green jobsworth cretin" #BadgeofHonour?

Isle of Mull/Colwall
Joined May 2014
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Yesterday we learned of 38.2% mortalities in salmon farming. Blood pressure alert 🚨 ‼️ Today we find out how much of YOUR cash goes to prop up this toxic, nasty, ludicrous industry……. Read and weep taxpayers: gov.scot/publications/marine…
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.@AnasSarwar please don't promote this extractive, millionaire driven food system that cant keep a lid on mortalities or chemical use, degrades our environment, + sucks up grants that would be better spent on locally owned coastal businesses. #ScottishSalmon. Not Scottish.
Today, managing directors of the #ScottishSalmon sector along with Atholl Duncan, Chair of Salmon Scotland and Tavish Scott, CEO of Salmon Scotland, met with @AnasSarwar, leader of @ScottishLabour. The roundtable engaged on #Labour’s vision for #economic growth in #Scotland. #BakkafrostScotland | @MowiScotlandLtd | #ScottishSeaFarms | @ScotGovernment | #aquaculture | #engagement | #ScotlandFuture | #ScottishSalmon | #Salmon
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Is your supermarket using the @RedTractorFood logo to reassure their customers? @RiverActionUK have exposed the muck behind the mark - and it stinks! Join us & take action. Tell your supermarket to call out Red Tractor & enforce environmental standards: ow.ly/FgTu50XgNWv
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The UK is among the most nature depleted counties in the world. A horrendous fact. Can you help reverse this by donating some cash to help the Wildlife Trusts buy the enormous Rothbury Estate so they can bring back wildlife? wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/r…
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“This is the lowest survival on record in over 35 years," said animal welfare campaigner Abigail Penny @animal_equality "It’s a deeply unsustainable model” @heraldscotland @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott heraldscotland.com/news/2557… @ScotGovMarine
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No arable farmer would routinely grow a crop if one third to a half of it died before harvest. And plants are generally accepted to be non-sentient beings so you don't even have the welfare issue as a driver.
NEWS🚨🤬 Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2024 data just in. 38.2% mortality rate in sea cages. Staff numbers fell by 8%. And now, over to you @MairiGougeon @_KateForbes @GillianMSP @JohnSwinney @SP_RuralAffairs gov.scot/binaries/content/do…
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NEWS🚨🤬 Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2024 data just in. 38.2% mortality rate in sea cages. Staff numbers fell by 8%. And now, over to you @MairiGougeon @_KateForbes @GillianMSP @JohnSwinney @SP_RuralAffairs gov.scot/binaries/content/do…
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Musk ox on Dovre 😊 Photo Jarle Storli #Norway #wildlife
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The #Scottishsalmon sector is not Scottish nor sustainable. There is a constant drive for automation at the expense of jobs, and not in anyone's wildest dreams can they say that they protect the environment that they are literally shitting all over. #Offthetable
Today we celebrate global efforts for a sustainable & food-secure future on @FAO's #WorldFoodDay 🌍 The #Scottishsalmon sector supports this by providing nutritious, responsibly farmed protein, creating jobs, and protecting our environment. More: fao.org/world-food-day
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The #Scottishsalmon sector isn't sustainable or Scottish. It undermines food security at home (their medication are toxic to marine life + fish shit destroys habitats) + abroad (wild caught fish/krill used to feed farmed salmon are a vital part of human + animal diets elsewhere).
Today we celebrate global efforts for a sustainable & food-secure future on @FAO's #WorldFoodDay 🌍 The #Scottishsalmon sector supports this by providing nutritious, responsibly farmed protein, creating jobs, and protecting our environment. More: fao.org/world-food-day
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Massive protests against the Russian-backed government of Hungary, with Peter Magyar absolutely destroying Orban in the polls. If Orban allows a free election, it's over for Putin's puppet.
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Each scene in Barbara Greg's wood engravings becomes a little world, a contained environment, and so it is with 'The Grass Snake Taking the Last of the Summer's Warmth.' (1950) Whatever the scene shows, there is no elsewhere, no alternative - a complete world.
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This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.
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Spot on
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After Trump and Witkoff trumpeted the alleged achievement of Russia agreeing to security guarantees for Ukraine, Lavrov says that Russia only agrees to guarantees in which Russia (and China) have a veto, as per the Russian proposal in Istanbul in 2022. That is, nobody is allowed to defend Ukraine from Russia unless Russia and China agree. Great progress all around.
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We were in court today after being charged for hanging this banner opposite Labour HQ. Pleaded not guilty. Trial in January ✊
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‘Red Admiral’ Butterflies and Moths, 1965 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
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“Ooh, something smells good, what are you cooking?!” It’s always just an onion.
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