Apparently, the supermarkets were only trying to help the farmers when they fixed their prices, but the money somehow got stuck at the retail stage.
The "free" market, with its big business that behaves like this, destroys everything that conservatives exist in order to conserve, including agriculture and small business. Yet somehow, even the post-Thatcher Tories (not that the other two are any better) have managed to present themselves as the ancestral political voice of the countryside, contrary to the plain facts of history.
Well, no more. The cause of the working and lower middle classes created by the Industrial Revolution is, and has always been, the cause of the farm labourers and the smallholders (or even many quite largeholders) as well. And now, that cause has a party.
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