Nigel Farage in London with hundreds of farmers today

JudyBloom

Well done Nigel supporting the Farmers.

Have you not read any of the previous posts?

Well done Nigel supporting the Farmers.

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!

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?

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?

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!

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.

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.

Has he ever done what he was getting paid for ?

What does that mean exactly?

GrannyGravy13

I support the farmers 100%

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

*NO FARMERS NO FOOD*

Except not these farmers does not mean no farmers, does it?

Farage and the Fishermen.....sounds like a band.

The Fishermen's Friend
When it suited his own interests.

Farage and the Fishermen.....sounds like a band.

Farage , saviour of farms and food.

Musk, champion of abused young girls.

Do people actually believe this guff?

M0nica

Barleyfields

Even if that percentage is correct MOnica, 25% of the country’s agricultural land is still a very large amount. Cock-eyed is right. Ill thought out and ill judged.

I have no argument with that, but if owner farmers sellup, the land will be bought up by commercial land owners and farmed by them

so the slogan NO FARMERS NO FOOD is patently incorrect, and if farmers are going to campaign thye need to get their facts right.

if owner farmers sellup, the land will be bought up by commercial land owners and farmed by them

Not necessarily

so the slogan NO FARMERS NO FOOD is patently incorrect

It is absolutely correct. If the land is not built on who will farm this commercially owned land?
Farmers - or will they just think that farming is a mug's game and refuse? Who could blame them?

So - who will farm this commercially owned farmland then?

I've been watching with interest what has been happening in other countries with recent disasters such as fires and floods. Unless we have food security then we are in peril.

It will be too late when there is no food on the shelves.

Remember Farage and the fishermen?

I hope the farmers have long memories.

Farage = mini-Trump.

Loves the limelight never ever follows through.

If Farage cares about farming as much as he did about fishing when he was in the EU parliament then the farmers shouldn't get too excited.
If I remember correctly he turned up to one of 42 committee meetings.

Farmland sold to pay IHT won’t necessarily be farmed by the purchaser MOnica. It may be used as whatever ‘set aside’ is now called, or as Rula says used for solar power.

I hope we won’t see productive agricultural land used for building Rula, but with this government’s crazy mandatory building targets nothing would surprise me.

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

Barleyfields

Even if that percentage is correct MOnica, 25% of the country’s agricultural land is still a very large amount. Cock-eyed is right. Ill thought out and ill judged.

I have no argument with that, but if owner farmers sellup, the land will be bought up by commercial land owners and farmed by them

so the slogan NO FARMERS NO FOOD is patently incorrect, and if farmers are going to campaign thye need to get their facts right.

Thank you SilverBrook

Oreo

I agree Barleyfields and wonder what city slicker came up with this not-so-bright idea.
FGS Rachel Reeves, just put income tax up! We can’t have good public services without paying for them, and stop scrabbling around trying to find evermore wild ideas for raising cash.

It's dishonest, isn't it.

All parties are frightened of putting up income tax.

Primrose53

Say what you like about him, but he is all over the place and doing a good job. In London again today with hundreds of farmers. Various venues.

Good!!! 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜

Also, when he was an MEP Farage had a gift of an opportunity to make huge positive impact on British farming. Instead he rarely attended the European parliament and on the few occasions he did he he made a complete fool of himself and our country by association.

When he has the chance to actually do some work and represent the people who voted for them he does nothing. The man's all for show and division.

Very well said and thank you for laying out the actual facts. Farage sees a chance to get his face yet again on the telly and pretends to care about farmers and some farmers are daft enough to believe him, he's using them like he uses everyone. If he cared about farmers he wouldn't have supported Brexit.