Tom Lancaster @tommlancaster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024For climate & nature people (like me), more problematically it also makes it harder for government to have a conversation with farmers on all the hard stuff we need them to do on 🌳 net zero and climate adaptation 💧 water quality and cleaner rivers 🐝 nature recovery 1173
Tom Lancaster @tommlancaster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024You can argue about the numbers & who will and won’t be hit - and for what it’s worth I think the Treasury numbers are well off - but it’s the loss of this opportunity and collateral damage these reforms create that present the bigger cost for this government in the longer term 141
Tom Lancaster @tommlancaster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024On policy, APR was (and is) a potentially hugely powerful lever for change In ag policy land, we’ve traditionally relied upon 💷 Incentives 📋 Advice 🏑 Regulation Reforming APR was always the thing that ‘couldn’t happen’ 151