Starmer ‘Fled Like A Rat’ From Angry Farmers

[naomi24]

//Sir Keir Starmer was accused of “running out the back door like a flipping rat” to avoid scores of angry farmers outside protesting over controversial changes to death duties dubbed “the family farm tax”....The prime minister is not believed to have spoken to any of the protesters outside the event after proclaiming to Welsh Labour members that he was proud of his government’s achievements so far and would not back down over measures in Ms Reeves’s controversial Budget.//

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-budget-family-farm-tax-b2648253.html

 

He won't back down - but he won't face the fallout either.   Rat or weasel?  Either fits the bill.

[curlyfries81]

Scurrying rat or snivelling weasal - he's good at impersonating both.

[barry1010]

I can't say what I think of him, I'd be banished from AB 

[ladybirder]

Oh go on Barry;-)

[nicebloke1]

No fridge available then.

[ToraToraTora]

have you seen the new pocket knife from the Swiss

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[Ellipsis]

There has to be a good rhyming phrase to sum up Starmer and farmer, in the same vein as Thatcher and milk-snatcher ...

[gulliver1]

What the farmers are really upset about is losing all those subsidies and freebies, no longer available  because of Brexit ,,,Caused by the Conservative Party,,, But because the culprits who caused this loss are no longer in power and  sitting Gagged on the opposition benches. The farmers now have to talk with the new  Governing Labour Party,        and their aint many farmer who voted Labour,,,Get it .

 

[nicebloke1]

Plus it looks like one of the 2 Range Rovers will have to be sold.

[gulliver1]

And the very thought of farmers relatives having to pay inheritance tax just like joe public,,,,Perish the thought.

[nicebloke1]

Never in my life have I come accross a poor farmer, lots of moaning ones.

[rowanwitch]

I don't think the average city dweller understands what a farm that has been in a family for many generations means.it's like hefted sheep being bound to the land.  Generations grow up believing they will see their grandchildren carry on the tradition.  Of course there are a few horrendously wealthy 'mega farmer's and huge farming conglomerates but many are small, family businesses, who do ok in good years, but in bad years may struggle to stay afloat, accruing an increasing burden of debt.   It's no coincidence that one of  the groups most likely to commit suicide is farmers.

[nicebloke1]

I remember when Boris fled like a pig into the fridge. :0))))

[newmodarmy]

Please keep stupid irrelevant points out of News, Nicebloke

[Togo]

// huge farming conglomerates//
Collectives I think they are called. The Commie way. The farmers were furious that he sneaked in and out of the back door like a thief in the night. Using the tradesmans entrance when he is not entitled or qualified to do so. What a tool.  

[brainiac]

This is this government's 'poll tax' moment.   Didn't take long, did it?

[Togo]

The farmers of course are getting it all wrong. Up till now the only people that have ben inconvienienced are themselves or the public. It is costing the farmers and the public tax payer to fund the protests and tractor go slows whilst complicant plod hoovers up the overtime money and trebles all round. What they should be doing is targeting the politicians directly. You know how the greedy gits love their subsidised food and drink in Westminster, Holyrood, and Cardiff? Well start there! Search out the caterers and suppliers and make sure that they cannot get the produce. If the creeps attempt to have it imported then block the route( perhaps the fishermen would like to help cos they are next) then make sure that the booze cannot get to their cosy little private tax payer restaurants and starve the stards out. No need for futile parades that only hurt the wrong people go for them direct.  

[rowanwitch]

It's likely that some will be snatched up by the large companies like Arla, and there will be the loss of rare breeds which may in future be a valuable part of a gene pool that would enable creation of new strains capable of adapting to climate change, or having resistance to new arising diseases.