So, it’s time for us all to get into the mood for the upcoming general election by asking just what sort of a Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn will actually make?

What are his views on Scottish agriculture and where will his leadership take us on the Brexit negotiations?

I, for one, certainly have absolutely no idea what the answers would be to any of these questions, it has to be admitted.

But it might just be worth someone taking the time to find out – and here’s the logic as to why.

At the last two big votes – our own Brexit referendum and the US presidential election – what happened?

Well it would be fair to say that all the pollsters, the pundits, the commentators and the experts got it totally and utterly wrong – and we ended up with results which a large sector of the community found (and still finds) hard to believe could ever actually happen in a sane world.

So that’s why I’m putting my money – if not necessarily my cross – down in the Corbyn camp.

And if I nip down the bookies and get decent enough odds, I might just be able to afford to leave the country before the pound totally collapses and what remains of this once great country of ours completes the rest of its journey all the way to hell in a hand cart.

But while my appreciation of the odd news report which I’ve caught recently might be influenced by the paranoid-inducing effects of the past week’s weather on the hill lambing, I’m beginning to wonder if there might be something in all the conspiracy theories which are currently out there.

There’s been a growing number of these doing the rounds ever since Donald Trump managed to get into the Whitehouse, with some sources claiming that computer hacking and manipulation of the media by the use of fake news and what’s now called post-truth politics, all done through the internet, is to blame.

In recent weeks and months both the Russians and the so-called Islamic State have been accused of having a role in this manipulation of public opinion and last week the finger was even pointed at disaffected teenagers as the source of much computer crime.

It might be safe to assume though, that despite being forced into using a ridiculously slow service for filing VAT returns, IACS forms and, shortly, quarterly tax returns such hacking wasn’t likely to be carried out by a militant wing of any farming organisation, mired as we are in dial-up speed levels of connectivity.

Regardless of who was getting the blame for bringing about such supposed challenges to democracy, it has to be said that if they were able to influence the US election by painting a reality for the electorate which didn’t really exist, then it’s not going to be too difficult for them to pull the wool over the eyes of a country which has already voted to leave the EU for all the wrong reasons.

In truth, though, the whole art of spin and general political manipulation probably has little to learn from these new technologies as they’ve been doing a good enough job for many years already. And while what appears to have been an increase in democratic aberrations in recent times has been grist to the conspiracy theorists mill, we’ve been lied to for years.

I guess the party election manifestos which are being eagerly anticipated by the media play a major part in this general process of obfuscation – with what’s not included in them often being more important than what is.

But the general radar chaff used to keep us from the truth has already been playing out for some time – and the farming sector hasn’t been excused being a in the firing line.

For while Defra has been holed up in the bunker since well before the Brexit vote, it has still given absolutely no indication of what their plans are for farm policy, beyond a series of airy-fairy aspirational comments.

But despite this, the war over where the powers of post-Brexit farm funding and policy making should lie has been underway in Scotland for quite some time.

Earlier this week there was another spat between the combatants as they jostled to pass the blame for the deplorable lack of preparation for the massive train which is coming down the track towards us and is destined to plough into the farming platform a mere two years down the line, at the end of 2019.

It’s like a Mexican stand-off, nobody wants to move first. The Scottish Government is being accused of inaction and lack of ambition in not taking the moves required to draw up its own plans for the future of the agriculture sector in the post-Brexit world. The SNP has responded by stating this is impossible without confirmation of a suitable budget being allocated for them to utilise.

But the simple truth is we’ve been going round in circles on this one since the referendum and it’s long past time the two sides started acting like adults and moved on from this political Groundhog day.

And if this petty squabbling is the reality of what the future holds for us, then there’s certainly no need for fake news.