Food Shortage Plan Being Drawn Up To Thwart A Farmers’ Strike

[naomi24]

//A senior minister has revealed that plans are being drawn up to deal with food shortages if farmers go ahead with their threat to strike over the controversial family farm tax....Farmers are set to descend on London in their thousands on Tuesday to protest against plans to impose a 20 per cent inheritance tax on farms worth £1m or more. They have warned that the policy will destroy family farms across the country or see them broken up....But more worrying for the government are the plans by farmers to go on strike and stop food production to give ministers a taste of what it would be like if the UK food-producing sector were no longer operating.//

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farmers-strike-food-shortage-plan-louise-haigh-b2648509.html

 

 

A grim prospect heralding a grim winter.  When will the stockpiling begin?

[nicebloke1]

Hope the hospitals dont get bogged down with people claiming to be staving they have their hands full with the over weight.

[jourdain2]

Here, here, NJ.  We live in a small, working, agricultural village. Mostly arable and sheep and a couple of organic,  free range,  outdoor pig farmers.  Both of these (I know) sought out the most humane slaughter-house around and pay extra for their pigs to simply mill around in an area and gradually fall asleep.   One sheep farmer, a friend (70) could easily be mistaken for the local tramp (did you know that fleeces fetch about 75p so he has to shear each one with old fashioned clippers because he can't afford a shearing team?)  His home leaves a lot to be desired and his barn roof  has fallen in.  OK he's cranky and refuses to sell the bottle-raised lambs!  

Not all farmers are wealthy.  They have the trappings, landrovers etc., but no family money.  It's in the land and equipment.

I'm going to buy a sack of potatoes from a local farmer a.s.a.p..

 

[New Judge]

"The change won't come in until April 2026 so why can the farms not be transferred now to whoever they would have been bequeathed to?"

Considerable complications with that, Corby. I'm no tax expert but I understand that it becomes particularly complex for farms if the house is separated from the rest of the farm or if it is kept together and the person who tranfers it continues to live in it.

[Khandro]

Last time I was there, there seemed to be few farms in Islington, and having a weekend retreat 'in the country' doesn't really qualify to the understanding of these ideologically driven student union socialists about farming.

Having spent 40 years living deep in the English countryside and knowing well the farming community, some as friends, I fully understand their concerns better than these twa ts.