You might ask yourself: Where do farmers get the time to protest? When your livelihood, your home and the farm that’s been in your family for generations are at risk, you’ll do anything to save it.
Having beaten Labour into a partial retreat on the family farm tax, farm protests have now turned to the supermarkets, who they feel are undercutting them with cheap and substandard imports, but I think they are mistaken.
Last year, when farmers stood up to Keir Starmer’s government, the public was behind them. That’s why they U-turned on the hated "Family Farm Tax", by raising the inheritance tax threshold to £2.5million, saving many family farms from closure.
It happened because the Great British public looked at the plans to break up historic family farms and said, "No." They stood side by side with us against the Treasury because we know that no farmers means no food.
This week, some have been blocking distribution centres and emptying supermarket shelves, but it’s a mistake. It is an own goal that risks throwing away the hard-won support of the public.
Farmers lose the fight against Labour when they starve grannies - James Wright
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This happened last year when the tractors blockaded the Morrisons distribution centre in Bridgwater; the impact was immediate. It wasn't the politicians in London or the shareholders who went hungry; it was the families and pensioners in Tiverton, Minehead, and Bridgwater.
I remember hearing stories from that week, pensioners looking at empty shelves where the milk and bread should have been; mums unable to buy fresh vegetables.
When you stop a lorry from leaving a depot, you aren't hurting the supermarket CEO. You are hurting the granny who relies on that local store for her weekly shop, and you are hurting the shift worker who just wants a loaf of bread after a 12-hour day.
These are the very people who supported us against Labour’s tax raid. If you starve them, you don't make them angry at the government; you make them angry at us. We risk becoming just another disruptive group blocking the roads, no better in the public eye than the eco-zealots of Just Stop Oil.
It is a scandal that a dairy farmer gets paid less for a pint of milk than it costs to produce, that the price of crops is barely above where they were 20 years ago. But the battleground for that fight is in the halls of Parliament, not on the roundabouts of our industrial estates.
Don’t let desperation drive you to tactics that hurt your own. The British people love us. Let’s fight the bureaucrats together, let's not turn the dinner tables of Britain into a battlefield.
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