Protesting farmers, beware of the party that cut your farm payments to the bone while inflicting deeply damaging trade deals upon you, notably while Kemi Badenoch was President of the Board of Trade, as you noted in no uncertain terms at the time.
The idea is to hand your farms over to the giants of American agribusiness, who would then employ the former politicians, advisers and officials. This Government is determined to do that. The same thing is planned for the NHS and the American healthcare corporations. The only people who could successfully oppose either are those of us who opposed both.
The Tories have hardly any rural seats, Reform have only five seats at all.
ReplyDeleteThe Conservatives lost 164 rural constituencies and held only 88.
Delete10,000 people, there were 400,000 on the march for hunting but the ban still came in and in 14 years the Tories never repealed it.
ReplyDeleteRemember when millions took to the streets to protest about the genocide in Gaza and the BBC provided minute by minute coverage and discussion on News24? No, me neither. And yet these farmers who don't want to pay taxes are getting wall to wall coverage?
I know for a fact that some of the protesters are the same people.
DeleteFarage is there.
ReplyDeleteHe has a nerve. He always voted against help for small farmers when he was an MEP.
DeleteFarmers rising up against a Labour government beholden to its urban public sector client state. The Tories doing what they're supposed to do for once, and actually opposing tax rises.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like 1997 all over again.
Nothing came of that.
DeleteThe presence of Farage leading the crowd, and the Tories pledge to reverse this death tax, are all good news. Even the Lib Dems tried to join in, but the Left cannot oppose tax rises without looking silly.
ReplyDeleteWhen David Cameron was pledging to abolish inheritance tax, Labour and the Lib Dems were pledging to increase it.
No one says "death tax" in Britain. That is not unconnected to the fact that David Cameron never did abolish inheritance tax.
DeleteThe NFU wouldn't have Farage on the platform, had Ed Davey speak instead.
ReplyDeleteAnd Tim Farron. But then, they have 72 MPs, not five.
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