A Political Thread pt. 2

[Saintjay]

Oh I'm sure some do, but when you have Farage leading their marches who's ****** em more than anyone else.

Farage would attend the opening of an envelope if he thought it would get him press. As far am I'm aware Ed Davey was on this one and he's definitely not right wing yet he won't make the headlines.

 

[ncurd]

TBF Clarkson has done a lot to promote farming in this country. Clarkson's Farm is great.

He however a complete nitwit who supports the Tories despite thinking Brexit is a **** idea.

 

[Reiser99]

Aren't farmers basically business owners now anyway. Long gone are the days of farming being a low class job. They might try to act like they off the people, but I imagine many do a lot better than the majority of people.

 

[ncurd]

Farage would attend the opening of an envelope if he thought it would get him press. As far am I'm aware Ed Davey was on this one and he's definitely not right wing yet he won't make the headlines.

Last I checked Ed Davey didn't campaign to have thier EU subsidies removed.

 

[Saintjay]

Aren't farmers basically business owners now anyway. Long gone are the days of farming being a low class job. They might try to act like they off the people, but I imagine many do a lot better than the majority of people.

Farms have always been businesses. Depends on your definition of farmer i guess. Plenty of people own farms or companies do but they aren't necessarily farmers.

Lots of farming is skilled work not really a low class job. It's not like there using an ox and plow now days. You also then have farm hands, managers, sheppards, fruit pickers and god knows what else.

A lot of the issues stems from allowing people and companies to buy large chunks of land to sit on, probably make money and then pass on without inheritance tax. I think it said today 40% of farm land sold last year wasn't to farmers more to people trying to avoid tax.