Defiant farmers are threatening to blockade ports, disrupt supply chains and withhold produce and livestock in protest against Labour’s inheritance tax hike, leaving supermarkets scrambling and the Government bracing for a rural revolt. The Telegraph has more.
It is a significant escalation in what has been a fierce backlash to plans announced by Rachel Reeves.
The Chancellor placed a 20% inheritance tax on farmers’ assets worth more than £1 million in her first Budget. Previously, tax breaks designed to allow family farms to pass down the generations were exempt from the divisive 40% duty.
Some farmers are now openly discussing plans to take a more radical course of action. The discussions are understood to be taking place among farmers who have previously organised tractor “go-slows” on roads as well as protests in February which saw 5,000 farmers gather at the Senedd to voice dissent over environmental targets.
One farmer with knowledge of the plans confirmed discussions of possible blockades of ports and food distribution centres.
“They will block every port in the U.K. if they have to,” they said. “[This] could be a possibility to slow down the supply in the supermarket. The Government and supermarkets need to realise the control we have as farmers. The good thing with that is you have farmers everywhere so you can cover all the ports.”
The move to blockade ports would mirror widespread protests across Europe earlier this year, where farmers used their tractors to barricade the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, as well as the routes to several ports in Germany.
Clive Bailye, the founder of the Farming Forum, the U.K.’s biggest agricultural online forum, said that some farmers were looking at other actions, “from not taking sewage sludge to not letting food leave the farm or sending livestock to market”.
“I can see produce being withheld.”
He said that although they were “very worried about going to prison” he felt his position as founder of the Farming Forum put him in a strong position to help, adding: “We know we need to do something but we are not sure what it will look like yet. But I’ve got thousands of messages from farmers asking me how, when, where.”
The Telegraph revealed last week that some farmers were threatening to stop spreading sludge on their land in protest at plans to impose inheritance tax on their estates.
They are discussing plans for a co-ordinated “sewage strike” in a move that risks causing chaos for water-treatment companies and creating a mountain of waste.
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Great news, hope they get like the French and that it’s the catalyst to further push backs against Starmer and his Marxists.
Just seen the Remembrance Day, Starmer et al walking down the Cenotaph, wreath in hand, saddened, pensive and sturn looking….
All while they support global conflict and mass murder (notice how I didn’t use the term Genocide, didn’t want to distract you all)
I’ve never seen such level of hypocrisy.
Haven’t you watched it in the past? Quite a long queue of ex-PMs this time.
Yes i have, the hypocrisy spans many an PM..perhaps the worse would be the war criminal Blair….1 million deaths in Iraq over the lie that was weapons of mass destruction..
We’ve seen it all before, the pointless slaughter and never ending wars…
Today, Remberance Day would be the perfect platform to question and confront the global war agenda, pushed and encouraged by the corrupt political class and the MIC for the profiteering of billions…
During Trumps previous presidency, he did actually halt the lobbying and flow of funds to the MIC, hopefully he will continue, however The Deep State will have something to say about that, and im saddened to say that i think he will become the 5th president to be assassinated… I sincerely hope im wrong.
Didn’t watch it: I can’t stomach watching the gargoyles posture.
It is a disgrace that people are alowed to march in favour of Hamas and the destruction of Israel, including at the time of national remembrance, whereas farmers are limited to such a small number it will be irrelevant. The public generally cannot support farmers because the numbers to be allowed are so small.
The Hamas supporters undeoubtedly include people who do not accept UK law and values and likely also many illegal immigrants. Farmers are among the most law abiding people.
Two values Starmer?
Two values EppingBlogger?
“It is a disgrace that people are allowed to march in favour of Hamas and the destruction of Israel,”
Is it not also a disgrace that people are allowed to march in favour of Israel and the destruction of Arab countries in the ME
Or are brown people some how exempt EppingBlogger….
Arh yes, I see, they are exempt arnt they….
Do you know what they call that….
Difference is, one side would happily behead me for being a Christian.
You obviously haven’t read the Talmud and Zionist teachings…..
They are absolutely no different…
Ah yes! I remember that Jewish lad running around stabbing people. And that other Jewish lad who blew himself up specifically to kill young people! Who can forget the other Jewish lad who cut the head off of a teacher because of a cartoon?
How manys that??…. Terrible and disgusting isn’t it.
Now then, how about the 45000?
The IDF don’t use knives to kill they use western made hi tech arms, generally indiscriminatly dropped from great heights…
You seem to be talking to yourself now, so I’ll leave you to it and get back to making dinner.
https://cpj.org/2024/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
The Zionists dont care who you are…
137 jouros killed by the IDF in ME since last year..
Already made matey, slow cooker jobbo
Stop spouting the controlled narrative, what applies to one applies to the other, unless your part of 2 teir Starmers marxist sect
And stop conflating issues too
On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state
There’s definitely more to it that I’m willing to look into and research, so I am certain you’re correct, at least about the government and how sketchy it is.
But my initial point still stands; islam is far far more likely to want to personally kill me and my own.
I can understand that, but i try extremely hard not to conflate issues, thats the msm trick… I hate the mass immigration from the 3rd world, im beyond disgusted about terroist killings, but that doesnt mean i ask for civilians in Gaza and Arab contries to be invaded, lands stolen, and bombed to death in their 10s of thousands… Its just not that simple and far more nuanced because that introduces the corruption of the political class, the MIC, bankers, et al who push these agendas for billions in profits… Its a sick industry..
I dont take sides in the gaza conflict, im aware of what the Palestinians have endured under Zionist apartheid and if my children and family had been murdered and treated like Israel has treated them, then id most probably become a “terrorist” or freedom fighter, which ever term you wish to use… I can understand..
But its paramount that both sides must be treated and viewed equally, but the msm narrative ensures that they are not…
If Hamas are terrorists (which they are) then so is the state of Israel, as the human rights lawyer in my previous post suggests.
Well look at the SAS having to protect the good patriots who want to pay their respects in London today, due to the increasing threat from the far-right Christians and anti-West jihadi Jews. It’s getting well out of hand! They’re checking people’s bags and pockets like it’s airport security! Personally, when I see a Sikh or Jewish person my first thought is ”suicide vest” or ”is that a machete down your trousers or are you just pleased to see me?”, because their reputation proceeds them;
”The SAS will mount its biggest security operation in London in more than forty years due to the threat of a terror attack at the National Service of Remembrance.
They will be at the Cenotaph watching over the thousands of veterans, members of the public and dignitaries who will meet at Whitehall at 11am.
It is understood to be the largest deployment in London since the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980 – though exact numbers have not been disclosed for security reasons.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14064323/SAS-mounts-biggest-counter-terror-operation-decades-protect-Remembrance-Day-events-amid-fears-disruption-radical-Islamists-radical-Left.html
The Dailyfail
I don’t understand your comment about a Sikh or Jewish person – what do you mean?
It’s never the Sikhs, the Jews, the Hindus or the Christians that go around stabbing people or blowing them up, is it? It tends to be the ‘usual suspects’ that have this particular M.O. As was eventually confirmed with the Southport child-killer.
Youve never heard of the Talmud, I wonder why….
Talmudic laws are the basis of our judicial system..
Two values unSceptics galore…
If ever people needed to understand that Kneel’s mob are intent on destroying this country the attack on Farmers via IHT was it. Let nobody be under the misapprehension that Labour have the interests of this country and it’s people at heart. Their aim is total destruction and they don’t care who is sacrificed along the way.
Once our farmers are forced off the land the parasites will pounce – Gates, Blackrock, Vanguard and the rest. The land will be turned over to useless solar panels, rabbit hutches for the slaves and the ability to feed ourselves will be gone forever.
As I keep repeating, we are at war and must do whatever we can to support our farmers.
Let’s not forget that Spain’s recent floods have been generated by the EU pushing Spain to dismantle dams. 133 of them apparently and with catastrophic impacts on farmland. Britain imports 40% of its fruit and vegetables from Spain. Impact on prices? The very fact we import so much from Spain is a sad indictment of the paucity of our food supply planning. We should be self-sufficient in food in the UK but every government since the Second World War has shockingly ignored this basic element of national welfare.
Support for farmers is paramount.
Look at this. Maybe they’re all self-sufficient and don’t get their food via any shop which buys from farmers…not! Can people be any more despicable or treacherous? Farmers are Nazis now, apparently. *Sound on*
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1855578538344145383
Meanwhile, here’s some Nazis;
”Palestinian Muslim teenagers in Gaza reached the border fence with Israel just to raise a Nazi flag and threaten Jews with the following threatening message which went viral on social media: “This is Hitler who burnt them (Jews) and turned them (Jews) into soap. Three weeks ago we made this flag and brought it here and we will do so every week.”
Is this what a religion of peace looks?
This is what the media does not show you about the conflict. Please follow me if you support Israel!”
https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1855250423487095114
The irony of chanting ”Nazi scum off our streets!”, directed at patriots, whilst simultaneously holding a ”Refugees welcome” placard;
https://x.com/hedersordet/status/1855566439446393123
To make it difficult or nigh-on impossible to pass on family-run farms to offspring due to prohibitive tax obligations plays into the hands of large corporations at every level. With land prices having risen, and corporations trying to “offset their carbon footprint” (total joke!) by buying that very land that is now unaffordable to other farmers (who would otherwise take over the business as a going concern), farmers are being side-lined and the only outcome can be the decimation of agricultural productivity in this country and the corporatization of the countryside.
The average land-value of a British farm, according to figures in the farming industry, is now at about £3.2 million, landing families with a tax bill of well over half a million on inheritance of the farm!
Also according to farmers, it raises less than £1 billion per year. Meanwhile, many tens of billions are being spent on the green agenda, the planned infrastructure for which, a cynic may suspect is intended to displace the farming industry.
Are they stupid, naïve or evil? You decide.
Interesting to know what conversations SStarmer had with Bill Gates.
Now is our Winter of discontent…
Must be a Marxist-Socialist Government in again… is it the 1970s?
Valuing the land is the easy and obvious part. Don’t forget the buildings and machinery – it’s capital intensive too, and will presumably be valued as part of the estate. A tractor – £100k. A combine – £0.5 – £1m
Well the Student Union Marxists in Government like a strike and disruptive protests …. when it suits them.
They can’t lock up all the farmers …. they’ve already filled the prisons with foreign criminals and British people who said a few unapproved remarks on social media.