Nigel Farage in London with hundreds of farmers today

What does that mean exactly?

Has he ever done what he was getting paid for ?

Churchview

Pity Farage didn't think about Farmers more when he was driving Brexit through. Brexit had and continues to have a huge negative impact on farmers and farming.

His vested interest is probably from the hunting angle as we all know he and Reform are big blood sports fans.

www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendum/analysis-7-years-after-brexit-farmers-count-the-cost

But the farmers weren’t out there protesting about how Brexit had affected them. Something that many of them supported, not caring about how it would affect other people.

GrannyGravy13

I support the farmers 100%

Nigel Farage appears to be astute when it comes to assessing public opinion.

*NO FARMERS NO FOOD*

Well said GrannyGravy.

SilverBrook

All over the place except in his constituency.

He bought farmland as a tax avoidance device.

All Aboard With Jeremy and Nigel on the Inheritance Tax-Avoiding Tractor Wagon!

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-joness-week-moment-all-aboard

The independent tax expert Dan Neidle calculates the number of farms affected by abolishing this wheeze will be below 500 per year. There are 209,000 farms in the UK, so we can’t even say we’re taking about the fabled “1%”, since only the very richest 0.2% will be affected. They may think they’re poor, but median household wealth in the UK is £302,000. If you’re inheriting ten times as much tax-free, you shouldn’t be surprised that I don’t want to buy your charity single.

Farage’s presence means the protests become the Nigel Farage Show. An overt attention-seeking narcissist never misses an opportunity. The genuine farmers concerned about this don’t want him at these protest.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/20/farming-rally-organisers-exclude-nigel-farage-from-speaker-line-up

No farmers, no food? Rupert Lowe’s crazy bill to abolish Quantitive Easing will mean no food supply at all were Reform ever in charge of the Exchequer.

Look beyond his attention-seeking antics for his own personal gain and consider why Reform wants to stop the Bank of England creating money?

Well said, accurate and astute.

Get back to Clacton Farage and sort out your poor constituents, you remember them and the job you so craved you ran 7 times, do your job!

Ahem: from The Independent:

Nigel is 'jumping on the bandwagon' - protest organiser claims
Nigel Farage is not invited to today's protest, organised by Save British Farming

Instead, the Reform leader is addressing farmers making a pit stop on their way to London this morning.

Asked if Mr Farage was welcome, Liz Webster, founder of Save British Farming, told The Independent his support for Donald Trump and an American trade deal undermined British farmers

Farmers fear a trade deal would allow in chlorinated chicken and other products that would undercut them

Ms Webster: "Nigel likes to be seen as part of the farming community, but you can't have your cake and eat it. Nigel is in awe of Donald Trump, he is the first person to want an American trade deal, if you have the American trade deal that destroys British farming, so you can't have both

The Save British Farming organiser said Farage’s support for Trump undermined his support for UK farmers

Is there a bandwagon that this man will not jump on?

Whilst I do have some empathy for Farmers, most especially those who own small and medium and tenant farmers who own nothing, I’m not understanding why they were ever exempt from IHT in the first instance?

HousePlantQueen

Ahem: from The Independent:

Nigel is 'jumping on the bandwagon' - protest organiser claims
Nigel Farage is not invited to today's protest, organised by Save British Farming

Instead, the Reform leader is addressing farmers making a pit stop on their way to London this morning.

Asked if Mr Farage was welcome, Liz Webster, founder of Save British Farming, told The Independent his support for Donald Trump and an American trade deal undermined British farmers

Farmers fear a trade deal would allow in chlorinated chicken and other products that would undercut them

Ms Webster: "Nigel likes to be seen as part of the farming community, but you can't have your cake and eat it. Nigel is in awe of Donald Trump, he is the first person to want an American trade deal, if you have the American trade deal that destroys British farming, so you can't have both

The Save British Farming organiser said Farage’s support for Trump undermined his support for UK farmers

Is there a bandwagon that this man will not jump on?

Nope! Many recognise him as the sleazy, snake oil salesman that he is, many other think he’s a good man of the people, with his pint, pie and fags!

Well done Nigel supporting the Farmers.

JudyBloom

Well done Nigel supporting the Farmers.

Have you not read any of the previous posts?

HousePlantQueen Mon 10-Feb-25 12:29:07
Thanks, HousePlantQueen.

The farmers know a chancer when they see one!

MayBee70

JudyBloom

Well done Nigel supporting the Farmers.

Have you not read any of the previous posts?

evidently not. This disinterest in reading all around a subject and not just responding to knee jerk pronouncements is exactly why Brexit happened and why this chancer is still strutting around, giving his unasked for and ill informed opinions.

HPQ

Yes!

JudyBloom

Well done Nigel supporting the Farmers.

😂😂😂😂😂

Nigel is only ever interested in himself!

Saw two people representing farmers on TV this morning. Neither seemed very enthusiastic about Farage. Both saying he needs to be with farmers or his trade deal with Trump which will be terrible for them.

I hate the no farmers no food. How about no nurses no NHS, no teachers no schools, no lorry drivers no distribution, no shop assistants no way to buy food, no scientists no breakthroughs saving lives, no power workers no electricity. Do they seriously think they are the only people who matter.

Rula

Won't a lot of land end up being built on or turned into solar power farms?

Plenty of farmers near me seem happy to sell up to developers.

theworriedwell

I hate the no farmers no food. How about no nurses no NHS, no teachers no schools, no lorry drivers no distribution, no shop assistants no way to buy food, no scientists no breakthroughs saving lives, no power workers no electricity. Do they seriously think they are the only people who matter.

Not at all

No Farmers No Food is the tag used by the NFU and other farming organisations.

The professions you list could come up with their own slogan

Farage is a publicity hound, eager to get his mug on the telly, but is not for rolling up his sleeves and actually getting a job done, as his constituents in Clacton - who have yet to see him - will bear testament to.
And will he stand against his hero Trump if a trade deal with the US is bad for our farmers? For as we all know Farage is ‘selective’ when it comes to other countries having an association with the UK.
In a nutshell -
EU - bad
US - good
Even when that association is far from good.

Well, Mr Farage is unlikely to be found in his constituency today- or any other day, I understand.
Do his constituents have other pressing needs he might be addressing , or is it that Clacton has a lot of agricultural land ?
I don't think so, but am happy to be corrected, as it is not a part of the country that I know well.
Supporters of Mr F, would you be pleased if this was your MP- never seen, never speaking in Parliament amount issues important to you, but often seen in the media offering his views on other matters?

Farage said today that he wants an end to inheritance tax. That would be a vote winner, though he doesn’t say how he would make up the loss in revenue.

Barleyfields

Farage said today that he wants an end to inheritance tax. That would be a vote winner, though he doesn’t say how he would make up the loss in revenue.

And it doesn't affect that many anyway.

Barleyfields

Farage said today that he wants an end to inheritance tax. That would be a vote winner, though he doesn’t say how he would make up the loss in revenue.

Nothing Farage says he will do is ever costed. He is such a fraud.

Barleyfields

Farage said today that he wants an end to inheritance tax. That would be a vote winner, though he doesn’t say how he would make up the loss in revenue.

I am against IHT, call it what it is a death tax.

Taxing money which has already taxed during the lifetime of the deceased is wrong.