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European Farmers Have Shown Us How You Actually Stand Up to the EU

by Will Jones
3 February 2024 1:00 PM

Brexit was too polite by half, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph. The French aren’t going to sit around discussing matters in a village hall. European farmers have shown us how you actually stand up to the sclerotic EU. Here’s an excerpt.

Pity the EU’s hoi polloi. Now Britain has left they can no longer pretend that it was a case of one recalcitrant country standing in the way of their glorious project of unification. As the tractors encircle their Brussels citadel it is becoming clear that Brexit was just a harbinger of what was to come: mass dissension against an undemocratic, over-centralised bloc that is damaging the livelihoods of many of its citizens. 

I can’t say I am overflowing with sympathy for French farmers. They received billions in subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy last year. They are protected against foreign competition with tariffs for meat and dairy products, and still they can’t seem to make their industry pay. Moreover, they have been behaving disgracefully towards importers for decades. But on their central complaint I certainly can see their point. As Anne-Elisabeth Moutet revealed in the Daily Telegraph last week, French farmers are drowning in red tape – some of it emanating from their own Government and its agencies, but a lot of it derived from the EU. …

You can’t build thriving businesses against this kind of regulatory overreach. But then how would the EU’s chief officials know? They are not the sort who have run businesses; rather the type who have been put through grandes ecoles, garlanded with academic awards and groomed from a young age for careers in public administration. Then they have been sent off to Brussels often because, like Ursula von der Leyen, the former German Defence Minister who sent her troops into a NATO exercise with broomsticks because they didn’t have enough guns, they have failed on the national political stage. 

Brexit was too polite by half. French farmers aren’t going to sit around discussing the merits and negative aspects of the EU in village hall meetings like we did. They see themselves as the sons and daughters of the Revolution. They want total victory. Europe’s farmers may be taking over from where British Brexiteers left off in their frustration with the EU, but they are already turning out to be far more militant. 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BrexitEUFarmer protestsFranceNet Zero

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

I wish French farmers were protesting to reduce bureaucracy and fight against the undemocratic EU.

But they will receive their financial payoff, get something for themselves and head back hone.

And the general population will have to fund the pay off with more taxes and more debt.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Maybe. Let’s hope they’re just pretty angry at being asked to hang themselves with their own rope, while being told the rope doesn’t meet Save The Planet standards.

I believe the latter.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

.

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186NO
186NO
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Absolutely – deliberate non joined up targeting ….Allez les bleu..,

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/02/uks-online-safety-act-officially-grants-msm-permission-to-publish-lies/

A worrying piece of news. Hopefully the FSU will be up to date with this.

Apparently if we publish information deemed to be lies we face twelve months in prison.

Government approved media outlets can however publish lies and get off scot free.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

UK Column talked about that on yesterdays show.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

There was always a strong left wing argument for leaving the EU.
It’s a pity the left were too timid to demonstrate forcefully for Lexit.
At least we had the desired result.
Just a pity it took the Tories to do it.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

the left has abandoned the working class decades ago in the UK.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Labour abandoned the working class decades ago.
The real left are committed to protecting the working class.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

BBC earlier today…..Protests against the ‘far right’ AFD all over Germany. Grannies against fascism form a human chain around the Bundestag to protect democracy. What wonderful people, future historians will see them as heroes!

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

There is a group in society that is so deeply under the spell, so totally asleep that they don’t realise everything they are made to believe is a total lie. No matter how evident and apparent it becomes.

It’s like a zombie army.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

“future historians will see them as heroes!”

The reality is that this lot are just useless eaters. Isn’t that right Klaus?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

30K “anti-extremist” demos in Germany. “Some farmers with tractors took part”….I think the farmers were part of another protest and their problems were not caused by the ‘Far Right’.
About 30,000 join anti-extremist demos in German city of Freiburg (msn.com)

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186NO
186NO
1 year ago

What the French farmers are perfectly correct in protesting that enough is enough is the diktats from EU that restricts what they can do and when as Farmers – bureaucrats with no idea about growing food other than how to drown farmers in paper.
For those who are not in touch with UK farmers – DEFRA tells them what to plant, when and also drowns them in red tape whilst encouraging them to stop growing crops and rewild fields …. sound familiar ?? DEFRA = EU abroad – they needed dredging of these apparatchiks
EU CAP does not stop European farmers being undercut, does not stop EU diktat to reduce fertiliser use – CO2 footprint blx- which reduces yields but does not stop imports from places which do not suffer the same strictures and no restrictions on fertiliser …. EU diktat hypocrisy writ very large, how to export “climate” policy rubbish …..or WEF orders ??? It appears to be attacking your own population whilst having open borders on one hand, gradually strangling a vital resource, food production ….all wonderfully Woke 🤔

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

The EU would regulate your toenail clippings and provide you with a receptacle for them. ———They are the Central Panning World Champions. There is no aspect of our lives they don’t want control of. ———-The EU must die, if freedom can ever have any chance of living.

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago

I think Jeremy Clarkson would agree with the disproportionate level of red tape and (petty & jealous) bureaucracy farmers face, day in, day out.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

If you make peaceful, democratic change impossible the only alternative is revolt and ultimately violence.

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