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The Labour government are waging a war on farmers, rural communities and the countryside. ▪️Inheritance tax on family farms ▪️Increases in business rates ▪️Government plans to implement a hefty carbon tax on fertiliser from 1 January 2027 ▪️Increase in the energy price cap ▪️Solar panel plans that cover an estimated 750 sq miles (a bigger area than Greater London). This would mean as many as a billion are needed - many of them on prime agricultural land ▪️Up to 5,000 wind turbines will be built ▪️Ed Miliband given final say on solar power and wind turbine developments (despite local community objections) ▪️Lack of countryside flood protection investment. ▪️115 post office branches are at risk of closure (many in rural areas) ▪️The Green Belt at risk from housing development ▪️Potential compulsory purchase of Green Belt land by local councils ▪️ Government ministers will have the power to ram through housing developments in rural areas where local councils have failed to submit comprehensive plans ▪️Local councils mandated to increase the Green Belt land designated for traveller sites ▪️Lack of a fair deal for farmers to receive improved purchase payments from supermarkets 🚜 It’s time to save our green and pleasant land. Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. It’s time to unite and fight back against the Labour government’s war on the countryside and rural communities. #SaveOurCountryside