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Nick Herbert's old jokes - NFU conference

Shadow DEFRA secretary Nick Herbert made all the right noises in his speech at the NFU conference not least with his announcement of a campaign calling for country-of-origin labelling of food.

But that was all that was new. Most of his speech was littered with well-worn farming jokes. For instance the one about the farmer who won the lottery and when asked what he would do with the winnings said he'd keep farming until they were all gone.

But in the Q & A session there was a better joke from a delegate who said government ministers were like nappies - they need changing regularly and often for the same reasons.

Keep up to date with all the news on our NFU conference special report page

Comments

farmertp said:

Julian are you sure the lottery reference was meant as a joke?

# February 16, 2009 1:44 PM [Delete]

Julian Gairdner said:

well i believe it was a joke, but fair point, it might have been serious

# February 16, 2009 2:14 PM [Delete]