Neil Watt
@neiljwatt
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Flying vet, Glasgow 77 PhD 83 Dick til 95. MV Diagnostics now. Co-developer of ‘a serological test’ and RiskRate to help eradicate bTB, views here are my own.
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"It's still an evil policy." ICYMI 📺| NFU President Tom Bradshaw (@ProagriLtd) told @BBCFarmingToday why the Chancellor's small change to the #familyfarmtax is not enough to remove its cruel impacts on elderly and vulnerable farmers. Listen at 10:11👉 https://t.co/8TCcoLiPQV
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Thank you for speaking so sincerely and passionately Tonia, it’s very much appreciated
Labour MP @ToniaAntoniazzi is spot on. The change made yesterday to transferrable allowances is welcomed but doesn't go far enough. We urge the Govt to listen to its backbenchers and make amendments to the Finance Bill to protect the elderly and the terminally ill. @NFUCymru
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Our President Aled Jones has been down in Westminster today listening to the Chancellor's Autumn Budget. Here's our reaction. ➡️ https://t.co/AgUPXNpXjM
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The seriousness of it. Rachel from account wanting to lift kids out of poverty… whilst plunge these into poverty. Why are farm kids different …
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NO IHT! This was our clear message at today's Winter Fair, on the eve of the Chancellor’s Budget announcement. It signalled the strength of feeling amongst rural communities against the UK Government’s planned changes to inheritance tax reliefs. ➡️ https://t.co/DaaVvMYIVu
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Electric moment today with @NFUCymru at Royal Welsh Winter Fair. Friends, families, colleagues — all dropping everything to stand as one. When those cards went up, the whole ring stopped. What’s happening to rural Wales is wrong. We’re not backing down. #StopTheFamilyFarmTax
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Ever since the announcement of changes to Inheritance Tax, we've continued to lobby hard to #StopTheFamilyFarmTax Here are just some of the media interviews our members have done over the year, delivering their personal stories of how these changes will affect their family farms
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❌“It’s not too late to stop family farm tax damage.” This is the message we're stressing at the Winter Fair before UK Government's Autumn Budget this week.
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We've used today's #WinterFair to meet with politicians to discuss the devastating effects of the IHT on family farms in Wales. Rydyn ni wedi defnyddio y #FfairAeaf heddiw i gyfarfod â gwleidyddion i drafod effeithiau dinistriol ydreth etifeddiaeth ar ffermydd teuluol Cymru.
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A week of highs: Dinner with US Trade Delegation & UK Ag Attaché 🇺🇸 Sainsbury’s Reception Westminster 🏙️ Supporting Glamorgan NFU Cymru Farmer Panel at a conference 🧑🌾 And lows: Failed bTB test 😞 Back in the ‘think tank’ this evening 😎 #Farming
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@AbiReader Heart breaking news Abi, so sorry to read this tweet 😢
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Annual bTB test this week Sadly didn’t go as planned 7 cows had inconclusive results, including our very special Winnie Retest in 60 days Not a good day for the team 👎 Meanwhile here’s Winnie from earlier this year, doing what she does best - Telling the Farming Story #MyTBStory
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I admit it. I was wrong. Trump's recent criticisms of Putin fooled me into believing that he might have changed his mind just a tiny bit about the Russian imperialist dictator. Feel free to lambast my naiveté here. I'm ready to take the punches.
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Trump’s plan is to make a democracy that is fighting for its very existence, a vassal to a brutal and oppressive dictatorship. He is making the USA an accomplice to Ukraine’s eventual destruction.
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Trump's plan is so grotesque and makes the US such an enemy of European freedom, that European states should have no other option than to tell Trump to shove it where the sun does not shine.
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