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And I dont mean for all that messing around with animal shit.
Big protest tomorrow apparently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy4xv5dy5yo
Good to see that 'man of the people' Farage has been vocal in his support of farmers in regard to this inheritance tax whilst conveniently forgetting the damage Brexit has played on the industry as a whole.
He's offered to speak at the rally but the farmers organising are considering his generosity of him speaking for them.
Good ole Nige. There for the downtrodden again and it's definitely not about him.
Will Hutton did an interesting piece in The Observer yesterday. If his take is right (he has always been very careful with his numbers) there will be 500 rich farmers affected each year tops, and the tractor convoys organised by the NFU claiming small hill farmers will be driven under by inheritance tax changes are all bollux:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-rural-britain
Farmers unhappy that the subsidy money they receive from taxpayers is going to come with obligations not to destroy the environment. Also raging that they no longer get preferential tax treatment to the refs of the population. Revolting is the right word for them
Didn't Mau get rid of the farmers or am I thinking of some other despot? Maybe Stalin?
Stalin purged the kulaks. Starved millions to death in the name of collectivism
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I thought that flat capped celebrity farmers spokesman outside the Welsh Labour conference was a right entitled tosser
Every time these farmers want something they expect the prime minister just to turn up and speak to them in the car park ?
UK food exports are well up since Brexit. You just don't read about it
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.u...bly-resilient/
The difference of course is that the asset is fundamental to the job of farming. Owning land may be an asset to me, to sell or develop etc, but for farms it is a requirement of the job.
It does seem another mistake from the government to me. An unnecessary fight and a risky one given the importance and fragility of the sector
Jimbo, I'm a little disappointed in you using a small piece of information to come to a conclusion.
Let's see what the farmers say?
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/...arm-subsidies/
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-refere...count-the-cost
https://westcountryvoices.com/brexit-and-farming/
Obviously we should take into account, farmers are notoriously moaning bastards who in the main see a lovely field with a family having a picnic, and there’s a nice pond in it, they fill in the pond with concrete, they plough the family into the field, blow up the tree, and use the leaves to make a dress for their wife who’s also your brother.
The fact is that food exports are growing pretty well and we were told the opposite would happen.
I'm sure there are a gr at diversity of opinions on it, but it's pretty clear that none of it drove them to protest unlike what's happening today, and also as has been happening all year across the EU. Indeed one can speculate that the farmers here would have been protesting had we not left?!