A letter to Carwyn Jones

Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
Peter Greenhill is so angry he has sent the following letter to Carwyn Jones –

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CARWYN JONES
THE WELSH ASSEMBLY.

DEAR MR. JONES,

                        YOU ARE REPORTED AS SUGGESTING THAT THOSE GIVING EVIDENCE TO THE EU FOOT & MOUTH INQUIRY SHOULD HAVE THEIR POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS INVESTIGATED. YOU LITTLE CREEP!

                        THE F&M DISASTER FOISTED ON THIS COUNTRY`S FARMERS BY AN INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT WILL BE A STARK REMINDER OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LUNATICS ARE ALLOWED TO RUN THE ASYLUM. VERY FEW OF US HAD ANY POLITICAL FEELINGS AT THE BEGINNING OF 2001 BUT NOW, 16 MONTHS LATER, WE ALL POSSESS ONE THING: A SIMMERING HATRED OF ANYONE WHO ENGINEERED THE DEATHS OF 10 MILLION ANIMALS, 98% OF WHICH WERE HEALTHY.

                        IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET ACROSS TO NARROW-MINDED LITTLE PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT IN SUCH MATTERS, POLITICS SHOULD PLAY NO PART AT ALL. WHAT WE HAD WAS A DISEASE WHICH THROUGH THE INCOMPETENCE OF MAFF (AND LATER, DEFRA) WAS ALLOWED TO GET OUT OF CONTROL AND THEY NEVER CAUGHT UP. AS FAR AS WE WERE CONCERNED, THE POLITICAL HUE OF THOSE IN CONTROL MATTERED LITTLE, IT WAS THE DEGREE OF SHEER ARROGANCE AND INSULTING BEHAVIOUR EXHIBITED IN AN INCREASINGLY-ORCHESTRATED WAY WHICH CAUSED SO MANY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TO BAND TOGETHER TO HELP FARMERS WHO WERE BEING ABUSED SO BADLY.

                        I CANNOT RECALL ONE INCIDENT THAT REFLECTED ANYONE`S POLITICAL VIEWS WHILST WE WERE EMBROILED IN THE DISEASE: FRANKLY, WE WERE TOO BUSY. BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT THE LABOUR PARTY`S VIEWS AND THOSE OF THE GOVERNMENT WERE CONSTANT THREADS NOT LEAST OF WHICH THE BURSTING URGENCY TO GET THE DISEASE UNDER CONTROL SO THAT THE ELECTION COULD BE HELD ON A SPECIFIED DATE. TO ACHIEVE THIS END IT SEEMED AS THOUGH ANYONE INVOLVED WITH THE GOVERNMENT WAS PREPARED TO LIE, TO DISTORT OR IGNORE EVIDENCE IN THE LEMMING-LIKE RUSH TOWARDS AN ELECTION.

                        OTHERWISE-DECENT (SOME OF THEM) SCIENTISTS WERE PRESSURED INTO MAKING STATEMENTS WHICH UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES THEY SIMPLY WOULD HAVE REFUSED. THE HEAD SCIENTIST HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF F&M BUT WAS A CHEMIST WITH A SPECIALISM IN SURFACE METALS. HE WAS ASSISTED BY A TEAM OF PEOPLE WITHOUT A SHRED OF VETERINARY KNOWLEDGE USING A FLAWED MATHEMATICAL MODEL DESIGNED TO PREDICT THE MOVEMENT OF HUMAN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES! GIVEN THIS SORT OF “EXPERTISE” IT IS

NO WONDER THAT MANY VETS AND NON-INVOLVED SCIENTISTS EXPRESSED THEIR HORROR AT WHAT WAS BEING INFLICTED ON A LARGELY-INNOCENT (AND POLITICALLY-NEUTRAL) FARMING COMMUNITY.

                        MY WIFE AND I BECAME INVOLVED BECAUSE OF MY ASSOCIATIONS WITH LIVESTOCK AS CHAIRMAN OF A LIVESTOCK MART (BUT I AM NOT A FARMER, JUST A BUSINESSMAN) WE SAW AND HEARD AT FIRST HAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON FARMS AND WE WERE PUNCTILIOUS IN ENSURING THAT ANY EVIDENCE WE COLLECTED WAS VERIFIABLE AND TRUE. MUCH EVIDENCE CANNOT BE FULLY GATHERED BECAUSE MANY OF THE FARMERS (AND A LOT IN YOUR AREA) ARE TOO FRIGHTENED TO SAY ANYTHING HAVING BEEN COWED BY THREATS FROM DEFRA. FOR EXAMPLE, WE KNOW OF A FARMER WITH A TERMINALLY ILL WIFE WHO WAS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE FARM AND WAS TOLD CRUDELY THAT IF SHE DIED, HE COULDN`T EVEN BURY HER! HE IS TOO DISTRESSED TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO THIS EFFECT SO THE CULPRITS ESCAPE AGAIN.

                        THOSE OF US WITH SUFFICIENT BRAIN CELLS TO ENQUIRE INTO THINGS NOW HAVE AN OVERWHELMING PILE OF EVIDENCE WHICH WILL DAMN THE GOVERNMENT`S HANDLING OF THIS APPALLING DISASTER. MINISTERS (THAT IS OTHER THEAN STEPHEN BYERS) HAVE LIED TO THE PUBLIC, TO THE MEDIA AND TO PARLIAMENT. THERE HAS EVEN BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO AMEND HANSARD. THIS MATTER WILL NOT GO AWAY AND WE WILL DO ALL THAT WE CAN TO SEE THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE ARE RUN FROM OFFICE WITH THE SAME LACK OF FEELING WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT THE DISASTER OF THE LAST 16 MONTHS. IT IS A MATTER OF SOME REGRET THAT EVIDENCE EXISTS OF LABOUR PARTY INTERFERENCE WITH SOME OF THE OUTCOMES FROM THE INQUIRIES THEMSELVES – NOTABLY THE ONE IN CUMBRIA. WE WILL, OF COURSE, DISMISS THE THREE GOVERNMENT INQUIRIES AS THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN LARGELY DISCREDITED AS ATTEMPTS TO WHITEWASH THE WHOLE MESS.

                        COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE SUCH AS YOURSELF ABOUT POLITICAL BIAS ONLY SERVE TO HARDEN THE RESOLVE AND BELIEF THAT YOU ARE ALL SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE SLOWLY SPINNING BARREL AND THIS IS THE ONLY CHEAP SHOT YOU CAN COME UP WITH. YOU DISGUST ME!

YOURS TRULY,Peter Greenhill