[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Plus our welfare standards are some of the highest in the world, that's part of the problem with importing so much food - farmers get undercut by food produced to lower standards and of lower quality

It's true that the farming sector is always very vocal about it's interests, as lots of groups are. But that's the same everywhere, just look at how the French farmers protest

Do you actually know any farmers?
They are driving round in hundred grand tractors and range rovers and when they can paying foreigners to do the work

The idea that farmers are the heart and soul of this country is bollox