More and more farmers and local farm shops are using social media to sell their food. Supermarkets pay them pittance for their food and a vindictive government punishes them. So they are taking the matter into their own hands and trying to sell direct via social media.
Instead of feeling the Christmas cheer last night at our pub - I had to walk away and cry.
I simply can’t be sure anymore that we will still be operating next Christmas.
I love our pub, our punters, our staff. It just feels so bleak.
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Thanks @RachelReevesMP Merry Christmas.
The number of dairy farmers plunges to a record low. A huge concern for UK food security. Hardly a surprise considering what the government are doing to farmers.
Back in 2023, Keir Starmer promised to support farmers. He said that he understood their concerns. But he blatantly lied to farmers. He has betrayed farmers. He has punished farmers. Do not trust a single word that he says.
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What the government is doing to our magnificent farmers is absolutely disgusting. And no, it doesn’t just affect a few rich farmers. It affects thousands family farms who are struggling to survive financially.
Here’s a post that many of you will relate to right now. For many years I’ve managed to have a pretty good standard of living through career progression and then being self employed. I’ve always worked hard and have enjoyed a few decent holidays, nights out, got on the property ladder in my twenties and largely always found a way to be reasonably comfortable financially.
But recently, things have changed.
Despite the fact that my annual income is significantly higher than it was in my twenties, I feel significantly poorer than in my twenties. And that’s because the cost of living is completely out of control. And the cost of living is out of control on the basic essentials of energy and food prices. This is combined with a horrendous tax burden - now at record levels.
If we were paying all of this tax and getting a return on investment then at least there’s a social contract of trust between the taxpayer and government. But there’s not. Instead we are paying record amounts of overall taxation and the country is rotting. Nothing works. Public services have diminished and infrastructures are rotting. The decay is everywhere.
I am not alone in saying this. Everyone I speak to is saying the same thing. We are all working our arses off just to keep our heads above water while paying governments extortionate amounts of money for them to make our lives worse.
And for all of this, I blame successive Tory and Labour governments. They have let the country rot. And they’ve sold our assets to multinational corporations. And they’ve made some terrible policy decisions that have cost the taxpayer a fortune. They’ve spaffed away our hard earned tax money on wars, corporate contracts, numerous crisis situations that they created and have feathered their own nests with power and money in the process. They’ve brought Britain to its knees by wilful incompetence and managed decline for corporate greed and we are all paying the price.
At some point we must stop focusing on who needs to pay more tax and instead focus on where all of our tax money is going.
The mood across Britain is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before. But it’s not the fault of the people. It’s the fault of government. And don’t ever let these bastards tell you otherwise.
314 Labour MPs, including the Defra secretary of state and the farming minister, put their own jobs first over protecting farmers as they voted for the inheritance tax on family farms. We are paying them to cause the closures of thousands of farms. We did not vote for this.
MPs have voted by 327 to 182, (majority 145) in the House of Commons for the inheritance tax on family farms. Shame on everyone (overwhelmingly Labour MPs) who voted for this.
Here is a list of all the MPs who punished family farmers:
https://t.co/kJGSokYguV
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Tim Farron MP explains that by 2028, the average hill farm income will only be 55% of the national minimum wage. And yet the Labour government is forcing farmers to pay a huge inheritance tax bill.
Shameful.
So the BIG!!! announcement by govt yesterday, bringing in fines for water companies? Simply regurgitating an old Tory policy which actually became law on 1st December 2023, 6 MONTHS before the election.
Oh, and I challenge Defra and Ofwat when you say that customers will not pay the fines prove it, show me one single example when water company shareholders ever paid a fine. Don't insult us.
“The effects of the family farm tax means we will lose the farm. Bear in mind we are the smallest farm locally. We have an inheritance tax liability of £600,000. That’s unsustainable for us.”