Yorkshire Wolds sheep farmer
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Don’t know bout anywhere else but not many libraries in our bit of the countryside telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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215 million animals slaughtered for halal meat in the UK in 2024.
UK supply of halal meat is 4 x greater than required for the size of the Muslim population.
Consumers must be able to reject this barbaric practice which has no place in a Western country.
gbnews.com/opinion/halal-kos…
Wonderful. I trust you will be supporting this @charliedewhirst
Esther McVey reintroduces her bill requiring COMPULSORY labelling of halal and kosher meats
She names and shames ‘Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and ASDA’ for selling halal meat without labelling it as such, as well as ‘Domino’s, Pizza Hut and KFC’
The bill has the support of Rupert Lowe, Lee Anderson, Sarah Pochin and others
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Geoff Pickering retweeted
Esther McVey reintroduces her bill requiring COMPULSORY labelling of halal and kosher meats
She names and shames ‘Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and ASDA’ for selling halal meat without labelling it as such, as well as ‘Domino’s, Pizza Hut and KFC’
The bill has the support of Rupert Lowe, Lee Anderson, Sarah Pochin and others
Geoff Pickering retweeted
Only the BBC could devise a funding model where the solution to people not watching your programmes is to charge them for watching somebody else's.
Under this logic, every time I order a Domino's, I should send Pizza Hut £2.50 to support the future of British pizza.
Geoff Pickering retweeted
Meet Tory chairman’s ‘far right’ black labrador (according to Labour's rural affairs minister)
The surprise star of the Tory conference has just been introduced to the press pack in Birmingham - Zuzu the two year old female black Labrador who belongs to Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake.
Geoff Pickering retweeted
Kevin Hollinrake pulls out a pint then introduces his “fantasy far-right black Labrador”, in absolutely brilliant scenes from Conservative Conference.
Legendary stuff. 🤣🍺🐕
Barnaby wishes to make absolutely clear that @DefraGovUK statements stating that he and other black Labradors are far right are totally unfounded
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GREAT to see this. I wholeheartedly support this…
An unprecedented range of government policies over the past two years have left rural people feeling under attack.
If political leaders want to speak for all parts of the country, they have to hear the countryside too.
Now is the time for a rural reset: ruralreset.org/
Geoff Pickering retweeted
Well said Ian Botham:
“Whitehall is turning England into a tinderbox. Defra’s response to climate change has been to sharply increase vegetation. Over the past 20 years its cuts in upland cattle and sheep grazing led to a 25 per cent increase in highly flammable grass.
Another genius move has been to stop preventative burning of heather. During damp winter months these burns safely prune the dead material which is then replaced by younger plants. It is the dead heather that is combustible. And thanks to Defra we now have 74 per cent more of it. The winter burns used to create firebreaks. Now we have huge expanses of continuous, ageing vegetation. The result is disaster after disaster.
When Downing Street starts asking questions of Defra, jaws will drop. Why did it further restrict winter burns despite the National Fire Chiefs Council warning this risked the lives of "firefighters and the public"? How come it also ignored the pleading of top wildfire scientists not to go ahead?
In 2007, officials said that stopping winter burns would produce "a much increased risk" of wildfires. Which is exactly what we are getting. Rewilded land going up in smoke.
Other countries have learnt the hard way. Australia and California tried suppressing the prescribed burns that indigenous people had used for tens of thousands of years. By some calculations, dozens died before their governments saw sense. What will it take for ours to wake up?
This is a crisis caused by years of Whitehall grabbing power away from the countryside.”
Geoff Pickering retweeted
I don’t normally brag about my expensive trips, but we just got back from the vet.
Geoff Pickering retweeted
A very aggressive hit piece on me has just been published in the Daily Telegraph by Allister Heath - labelling me ‘a deluded egotist who is toxifying British politics.’
He gives three examples of why he is so horrified by Restore Britain’s presence.
Number one. The fact I stated my concern around projections that ‘white Britons will become a minority by 2063’.
No statistic greater demonstrates the astounding way mass immigration is changing our country. He calls Restore Britain’s worry around this ‘racism’ and ‘disgusting’.
It should have ‘no place in mainstream politics’.
It’s that attitude which has allowed our communities to transform in front of our very eyes over the last few decades.
It’s not going to work on me.
This brings us on to his second point.
The fact that I highlight how parts of Manchester have essentially been colonised by Islamic populations.
YES.
I stand by every single word.
Communities in places like Rochdale, Oldham, entire districts in Manchester itself.
Replaced. Of course this has happened. My advice to the journalist is this - go and visit, use your eyes.
I did exactly that, and it shocked me.
There is no multiculturalism. There is one culture. One religion. One way of life.
Islam.
I make no apologies for my views on that, and Restore Britain’s efforts to change it.
His third concern? Incredibly…
The fact that Restore Britain has banning halal and kosher slaughter as a policy.
He is offended by my description - ‘barbaric foreign practices that have no place in our high-trust society’.
He calls it ‘despicable’, and it puts me ‘beyond the pale’.
He states that banning halal ‘would trigger a civil war’…
Does that not prove my earlier point correct?
Whatever.
I don’t want millions and millions and millions of animals to be brutally butchered and left to bleed from the neck in the most unimaginable pain. Does that make me ‘despicable’? I think not.
I am a British farmer. In this country, we care for our animals properly. I don’t care if that offends certain religions, I really don’t.
He also takes issue with me labelling cousin marriage non-British. Seriously?
If you are a Telegraph subscriber and you disagree, I suggest you let the paper know. They think your concerns around Halal slaughter are ‘despicable’ or that if you’re worried about parts of Britain becoming mainly Islamic that view is ‘foul’.
If you’re reading this, agreeing with what I’m saying, then join us.
Join Restore Britain.
Let’s get our country back.
Geoff Pickering retweeted
Jeremy Clarkson has been refused permission to sell food he grew himself, twice. In the same window, central government overruled a Lincolnshire council to put solar panels across 1,214 hectares of grazing land, an area the size of Heathrow.
Run the two columns side by side, because the pattern is the whole story.
He asked to open a restaurant in his own lambing shed. Refused.
He asked for a car park for the people already blocking the lane. Refused.
He asked to sell food produced more than sixteen miles away. Capped at sixteen.
He asked for a barn to store his own harvest, so he would not have to sell at whatever price August offered. Full application required.
He asked about the restaurant again. Enforcement notice, and six weeks judged ample to put the building back as it was.
Now the other column.
Had he covered those same fields in solar panels, the council could have refused and been overruled from Whitehall, as Lincolnshire was in October 2025.
Had he grown maize to feed an anaerobic digester, nobody would have written to anybody.
Had he taken £532 a hectare from Defra to grow a legume fallow, he would have been paid to leave a crop standing that may not be harvested, grazed or sold. Defra cut that rate this year and gave the reason in writing: it had become attractive enough to take land out of food production.
Had he sold the lot to a data centre, a battery park or a Chinese pig unit, all four of which he listed in his column last week, the paperwork would have moved considerably faster than a farm shop's.
There is your planning system. Every use of English farmland is easier to permit than farming.
Two hundred of his acres grew nothing at all this year, and the queue of people who want that ground for something other than food is already forming.
He is not being stopped from developing the countryside. He is being stopped from feeding it.
Geoff Pickering retweeted
12 of the finest (unintentional) double-entendres ever aired on British TV and radio:
1: Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator - “This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.”
2: New Zealand Rugby Commentator - “Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him.”
3: Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator - “And this is Gregoriava from Bulgaria . I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing!”
4: Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 - “Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew.”
5: US PGA Commentator - “One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my god !! What have I just said?”
6: Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on 'Time Team Live' said: “You'd eat beaver if you could get it.”
7: A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked. “So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?”
Not only did he have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!
8: Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: “Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.”
9: Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on 'Look North' said: “There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this.”
10: Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on 'Sky Sports': “Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets.”
11: Michael Buerk on watching Philippa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked.
“They seem cold out there. They're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts.”
12: Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: “Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny; other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.
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Geoff Pickering retweeted
𝟭𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵.
Standard German R sits at the back of the throat, close to a gargle.
𝘙𝘰𝘵, 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯
At the end of a syllable it softens almost into a vowel.
𝘔𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘳
Never roll it forward like the English
Geoff Pickering retweeted
REFORM UK REPORTS ZACK POLANSKI TO POLICE FOR INCITEMENT TO MURDER
The Green Party leader shared a post showing a man in a T-shirt calling for Nigel Farage to be beheaded.
He only deleted it after the backlash hit.
His excuse? He “didn’t notice.”
Reform UK has now formally reported him to the police for incitement to murder.
Nigel Farage is separately demanding his arrest.
This is not a joke.
This is not “edgy politics.”
This is a party leader platforming imagery that calls for the execution of a political rival while political violence is already claiming lives in Britain.
No more double standards.
Incitement is incitement.
Arrest him.
Investigate him.
Apply the law equally.
Share this.
Demand accountability if this the other way around it would be a different story why do the left always get away with murder.
Geoff Pickering retweeted
Most German learners cycle through the same three apps, then wonder why they stall at A2.
Meanwhile there are free resources built by German universities and publishers that almost nobody outside Germany has heard of.
Here are 10. A 🧵🇩🇪
Geoff Pickering retweeted
THIS is just the short version of the list!
Labour is obsessed with raising taxes.
The decisions this government has made in the last two years has been hugely damaging for our food and farming sector.
….And they’re proud of it.
Only the Conservatives will back the British countryside – starting by AXING the vindictive Family Farm and Family Business Taxes - and putting food security at the heart of all government policy.