Island Life by David Slack

Well, as someone who possibly has to take personal responsibility for prompting the Guv to these measures...

Let me just say how much I'd like to see him on breakfast TV wearing Shrek ears.

I'm just worried what David's gonna do. Every time the Guv gets on Mr Haywood's dark side, someone gets a Bollarding. An' I reckon he's .25% over the line now.

Confused. Whilst those diary guys are snorting snow the lamb growers are down a whopping $20 bucks a carcass ($70 to $50).

If the problem is houses and diary, whack those two issues, not the whole damn economy. This is export year, remember.

And yes, I am planning a light lunch in preparation for Haywood's next tale from the barbie.

I can confirm that in more ways than one, it has been a bad year for sheep.

Yeah, researching this recently, and while lamb has done ok at times, wool's really gone from hero to zero. In 1964 it made up approx 37% of our dollar exports. And we were in the -top few? (can't find figures on this) nations in the world in per capita income.
In 2004 wool made up 3% of our exports in dollar value. And it's slid since then.
And after all the clamour for diversity in the economy since '84 what're we doing? Betting the house on dairy prices. Hmmm.