Jim wrote:

I fail to find anything in you vitriol that would merit the headline
"******* accountants ruining the country" I think you may have a case in the
example given if you were to have addressed it to supermarket buyers who in
my experience are definitely not accountants !!

I was using the term "accountant" loosely.

The fact is that the driving force behind any country's wealth is it's
farming community and whenever they are hampered by bean counters (ie
all the time) then it may be said that the *******s are ruining the
country.