British farmers to protest again over increasing burden of government’s anti-farming policy on agriculture
RHODA WILSON
British farmers are planning to stage protests in the four capital cities of the United Kingdom on 11 December. The protests, organised by campaign groups Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers, aim to highlight the concerns and frustrations of the agricultural community.
In the video below, Matt Cullen, an organiser for Fairness for Farmers, announced the protest on 11 December. “Farmers are going back to London on the 11th of December. But this time with tractors. That’s right, with tractors,” he said.
Last month a convoy of tractors rolled through Dover and thousands of farmers gathered in London to protest against changes to inheritance tax rules as announced in the Labour government’s recent Budget.
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The protests were sparked by the proposed 20% inheritance tax on farm assets worth £1 million or more, set to take effect from April 2026.
British farmers argue that the policy, combined with the fast-track withdrawal of the Basic Payment Scheme, increasing farm employer costs and a carbon tax on fertiliser, among other policies, could force families to sell land to cover tax bills, breaking up livelihoods and generations of UK farming businesses, Farmers Weekly reported.
There are also worries within the industry over the impact of future trade deals, substandard food imports and the recent removal of farming grants.
The potential introduction of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef from the US undermines the UK’s high food standards and is a major concern for farmers. The government’s decision to remove or stop farming grants and funding for promoting British food abroad has added to the industry’s woes.
“There’s a decision about an American trade deal, which is a massive problem for British farming. It is unsurvivable. We’re back looking at the horror of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef.
“Obviously, the inheritance tax is another assault on farming.
“What is more, the government has removed or stopped a lot of the farming grants and pulled the funding for promoting British food abroad. What we’re seeing is a real aggressive move from this government to end British farming,” founder of Save British Farming, Liz Webster, said.
The protests on 11 December will take place in Central London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh. If you are able to get to any of the four cities to support our farmers, please do.
Sources for this article include:
- Farmers set to descend on central London again for new rally, Farming UK, 3 December 2024
- Farmers’ tractor protest set to take place in four capitals on 11th December, Farmers Guide, 2 December 2024
This article (British farmers to protest again over increasing burden of government’s anti-farming policy on agriculture) was created and published by The Expose and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Rhoda Wilson
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The Marxists Running the UK Government Have a Plan for UK Farming
PETER HALLIGAN
From here:
Taxing farms out of existence affects us all – Together Declaration
First, a quick detour to an update o the petition for a redo if the 4 July 2024 General Election.
From here:
Call a General Election – Petitions
“Call a General Election
I would like there to be another General Election.
I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.
2,953,294 signatures”
Call it 3 million signatures – one in 16 of eligible voters.
Total turnout: 28,924,725, percentage turnout: 59.8% – so 10% of those that voted in July 2024.
The current UK Labour government would lose in a landslide were the election to be redone – so there will be no new election redo!
Ok, back to the article, which goes into a lot of dental on the issue of the farmers being taxed on their generational “saved” capital, rather than their income – via “inheritance tax”.
Can you image Google or Amazon being taxed on “goodwill”? or the revaluation of the asset side of its balance sheet whenever there was a new chairperson or CEO?
I was struck by this quote:
“Former Blair advisor John McTernan had set the tone the week before, dumbfounding GB News’ Patrick Christys as he told him: “we don’t need small farmers. It’s an industry we could do without…. we can do to them what Thatcher did to the miners.”
There are around 70.000 farms in the UK of varying sizes. The attitude expressed by McTernan – a former Tony Blair adviser – is emblematic of the Cult of Moloch, from the UN down through the WEF and into every socialist administration across the world, not just in the UK.
Throwing farmers off the land – preventing them from growing food – is an insane and evil idea. If the farms are struggling, they should/could be given temporary financial assistance for bad years – at a fraction of the money being spent on renewables that only increase the entire country’s electricity bills.
What will be done with the vacated farmland?
Do you think, like I do, that it will go to forests of onshore wind turbines and plantations of solar panels – to even further increase the price of electricity?
Whenever you see a news item like this that seems ludicrous, you can bet that at its root, it’s grounded in a “net zero” policy.
Onwards!!!
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