Starmer boxed in by farmers in Milton Keynes today. 🚜

What a ridiculous waste of time and energy. What exactly did it achieve? Did it stop other people going about their daily business?

Stopped traffic, ambulances, police, and more.

Green fighting for the planet would have been arrested and put in prison! The hypocrisy is staggering.

I dint think so MayBee. I think it was just the farmers bring their protest about IHT under Keir Starmer’s nose. Awks for him though to be jeered like this.

I don’t think so Claremint. That’s not what happened. It was on a new housing estate, not blocking arterial roads.

I wonder how many people know that IHT for farmers is 20%, still only half standard IHT.

Also, that a large number of the estates claiming agricultural relief IHT have not actually been making their income from farming in the five years before the claim.

Dr Arun Advani, director of Centre for the Analysis of Taxation, told the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: "About 44% of the claims are from people you would think of as farmers.” The others, he said, are “a mix of people who own a house and some pony paddocks or who own land and let it out to a lot of people but are not involved in any farming in any way.”

Green fighting for the planet would also have been slated for using a helicopter with the accompanying pollution.

Of course we all know it, and they know it too. They are being manipulated by the minority of big, rich ones, the minority that will have to pay- quite rightly - and 50% less than all of us.

Claremont

Stopped traffic, ambulances, police, and more.

Green fighting for the planet would have been arrested and put in prison! The hypocrisy is staggering.

Really?
Are you sure you have your facts right?

Farmers are protesting all over Europe, including non-EU countries.

Something is radically wrong.

I wonder how many people know that IHT for farmers is 20%, still only half standard IHT.

Yes we do.

Claremont

Of course we all know it, and they know it too. They are being manipulated by the minority of big, rich ones, the minority that will have to pay- quite rightly - and 50% less than all of us.

No they are not

You make farmers sound like idiots. 🤬

Dr Arun Advani, director of Centre for the Analysis of Taxation

Does that person know anything about food production and food security?

I doubt it.

Claremont

Of course we all know it, and they know it too. They are being manipulated by the minority of big, rich ones, the minority that will have to pay- quite rightly - and 50% less than all of us.

Swiss farmers are protesting too over the vast increases in the price of fertilisers etc, which also affect farmers in the UK.
Do you think they have a point or that they are are being manipulated too?

What do you think might happen if the shops are empty of food as they are in Australia at the moment?

Unfortunately farmers have been taken for granted in the developed world for far too long.

I support them 100%

Claremont

Of course we all know it, and they know it too. They are being manipulated by the minority of big, rich ones, the minority that will have to pay- quite rightly - and 50% less than all of us.

I meant how many of the general public know. Ordinary folk not associated with farming who are being whipped up by Farage and his ilk in order to promote their agenda.

There was some incredible protests across Europe last year. Very little shown on MSM of course.

Is Europe being whipped up by Farage?

Try researching farmers protests in the EU last year

Its actually world wide protests, all the year.

waronwant.org/news-analysis/why-global-farmers-protests-matter

Shops in Australia are empty of food?

What- all of them?

In the whole country?

I have lots of family there as well as friends on holiday and they all seem to be eating pretty well...

I saw this had happened on the news.

www.maplecroft.com/products-and-solutions/geopolitical-and-country-risk/insights/farmer-protests-in-europe-increase-300/

Yep, big problems. And no, farmers aren't stupid at all. They most certainly aren't being manipulated.

GrannyGravy13

Unfortunately farmers have been taken for granted in the developed world for far too long.

I support them 100%

I agree GG.

Claremont

Stopped traffic, ambulances, police, and more.

Green fighting for the planet would have been arrested and put in prison! The hypocrisy is staggering.

Can you give a link to the source of this information please, as I've been unable to find any reports of ambulances , police and more being stopped by the protest? It may be you've found a reliable source but I can't find a single reference to any such disruption.

The point about the world wide protests suggests food supply chains, supermarket domination, corporate buy up of land world wide (as in the article I posted) points to far deeper issues than IHT.

We've had so many farming threads about the many factors in the UK, but now realise that although there are differing styles of government the farmers are facing squeezes on prices world wide and at the same time people unable - or unwilling - to pay higher prices at supermarkets.

I’m trying to figure out the government’s mindset for this desperate drive to Net Zero.
The carbon footprint of the wood pellets delivered to the Drax Power Station are added onto Canada’s total. Think they are in the 20% + percentage.
Meanwhile we build ever increasing numbers of wind turbines ( no mention of the tons of concrete, thousands of gallons of oil to drive them, and the fact the blades are non recyclable. The same with solar panels which are covering good farmland , instead of using the millions of roofs nationwide. The cutting down of millions of trees nationwide.
It takes a particular warped mind- in order to reach Net Zero and No 1 in the world - for the current government who’s next step would be to stop the exports of any food/fruit/meat / animals (tax the farmer IHT ) and businesses of other products, plus sky high raises - Nic’s, business rates, energy and raising hourly rates of pay, etc leaving the U.K. at the mercy of the world for food, energy and other commodities.
Any sane person would think these were deliberate actions being put into place by a government that was gaslighting the population. I could be wrong and everything is hunky dory in the minds of the elite who rule us