[Cherie]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

If it came across harsh I meant it to.
I haven't a scrap of sympathy for farmers.

They moan all the time, if it was farmers being listened to moaning, then nothing else would be able to be listened to .
They moan at anything and everything.

They should be paying inheritance tax as long as it's a tax in place.
They were wrongly in my view exempt from it for 40 years .
When they didn't care a jot for others having to pay it on assets over only £300,000 at a 40% rate too.
With farmers, it's at least a million starting point, only at 20% and up to 10 years interest free to pay it too.

Plus I'd like to see an on the spot inspections of farms as to the welfare of animals in their charge until sent to slaughter houses.
Because unless people don't care anything about animal life and welfare.
In farming the reports of abuse and cruelty to those animals, many with very short lives anyhow, is heartbreaking.
By Farmers and the staff they employ.

Their threats of '' no farmers no food''
Is despicable too.
I can buy loads of non UK produced goods in stores and markets.
The world is full of farming communities.

No, sorry, not a scrap of sympathy from me towards farmers.
No way.

I have to say Joey I am very surprised at this comment, food security should be at the top of any governments priorities especially in such an unstable world, given how we are at the mercy of other countries for our fuel and the escalation in prices ...the highest in Europe let me add, and trying to close the door after the horse has bolted by going green which incidentally will not bring prices down given the link with the global gas price, I dont think we should be playing fast and loose with food security