As if the family farm tax and Labour’s sudden withdrawal of sustainable farming funding wasn’t enough of a headache for Britain’s agricultural community, there’s yet more. The Government launched a new attack on hard pressed farmers this week, joining forces with the supposedly pro-farming Lib Dems…
Angela Rayner’s messy Employment Rights Bill – which has been called the ‘Unemployment Bill’ by its opponents – will bring in a raft of ridiculous new requirements on farmers:
The farming industry is not office work, it has never operated on these expectations…
Labour and the Lib Dems joined forces to impose the new measures in a vote in Parliament this week. It’s no wonder ‘f*ck Starmer’ t-shirts are now the workwear of farmers up and down the land…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”