Plaster this image everywhere between now and the local elections on May 1st. The Labour government are destroying farming, rural communities, small businesses and also punishing pensioners and the disabled.
Vote Labour out on May 1st.
Labour Ministers should get their heads out of cloud cuckoo land.
The Farming Minister says that farmers regularly stop him on the street and tell him he’s right about the Family Farm Tax.
So today in Parliament, I held the Minister to his words and asked him to name just one of these farmers.
Unsurprisingly, he couldn’t.
In the real world — having visited hundreds of farmers since the budget – this tax, and all the other changes are deeply unpopular and those who work day in, day out to feed our country know the sheer damage Labour will cause. 👇
Keir Starmer abandoned his visit to Buckinghamshire to promote housing plans due to a farmers protest. He has now disingenuously doubled down on the inheritance tax on family farms.
“Would people prefer NHS waiting lists to come down, lower interest rates, mortgages to come down OR tax breaks for farmers? We know what they would prefer. It’s a choice.”
Here’s former Labour Spokesperson, James Matthewson on farmers facing inheritance tax on family farms:
“It is in your best interests to sell up and do something with that asset and with that money.”
And there it is. The mask slips.
NFU president Tom Bradshaw reduced to tears in describing the human impact of family farm tax proposals during an Efra committee session today. "People (farmers) in ill health or who don't believe they will live for seven years may well decide they shouldn't be here on April 26.
In 2023 @Keir_Starmer looked farmers in the eye & said he knew what losing a farm meant.
Farmers believed him.
After today’s budget they don’t believe him any more.
#BackBritishFarming