Starmer boxed in by farmers in Milton Keynes today. 🚜

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.

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.

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?

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.

No they are not

You make farmers sound like idiots. 🤬

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

Yes we do.

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.

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.

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

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.”

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

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.

Stopped traffic, ambulances, police, and more.

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

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