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- Anger is brewing amongst farmers across the UK, with many worried about the future of their profession.
They say changes in the the agricultural sector post-Brexit could see food shortages and thousands of job losses.
Discontent is focused on cheap foreign imports and changes to subsidies forcing farmers to give up land in favour of environmental schemes.
The UK Government insists it backs farmers - saying it puts agriculture “at the forefront” of any trade deals and has maintained the £2.4bn annual farming budget.
The Welsh Government says farming is “important to Wales and to our economy”. It is consulting on plans and says it wants farming to have a “successful future”.
Sky's West of England and Wales correspondent Dan Whitehead joins farmers on the brink of leaving the sector and those arranging a growing protest movement.
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How would have thought that voting to take economic sanctions against yourself, might not work out in your favour.
The farmers were thrown under the bus by the Tories, who always knew they would be hit hard by Brexit. et many of these farmers still voted for it...
They are centralising food production and everything. Here in South Africa they are closing farms and we get our meat from Brazil and some food from Ukrain. This is intentional by the capitalist until the world rise and say enough they won’t stop
I wonder how many banks keep giving loans to British farmers…. Unless getting their lands with pennies of their worth
farming has always been in crisis from BSE, to supermarkets getting greedy, to consumers not paying their way, to the uk government not looking after their farmers
Anyone that voted leave in 2016 was gullible, naive and easily fooled... Anyone that still supports it is just plain thick.
I would add jingoistic and selfish
Glad to have been present at the London protest supporting British Farmers. No Farmers, no food.
Slap import duty on supermarkets bringing in food from foreign countries. They are to blame because they won't pay British farmers a fair price
UK doesn't have enough arable land hence the need to import so much.
Unless Brits becomes vegans XD
Slapping on important duties will be automatically passes on to consumers. Supermarkets aren’t going to pick up the tab. Never have never will. Supermarkets are in the business of making money, food is just their way of doing it
The expression "Lions led by Donkeys" comes to mind.
Hmmm except the farmers overwhelmingly voted for brexit. It’s like donkeys leading stupider donkeys, who whine when they get the consequence of their actions.
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HOW?
Farmers are struggling everywhere and don't get the reward for their hardwork and for actually putting food on our tables to enjoy. MSP and other incentives for farmers to improve their livelihood and promote farmer's welfare is needed if we really want to thank the farmers for feeding us a wholesome meal. I support farmer friendly policies.
Blame the right-wingers or whatever party PJW, Nigel Farage, etc. that favored for it.
Farmers are notoriously suspicious of 'townies' yet they fell, hook, line and sinker for Farage and Johnson... pale, pudding shaped imbeciles that've never done a hard day's work in their lives let alone get a bit of soil on their hands or mud on their shoes.
The UK's biggest supermarket chain said pre-tax profits hit £2.3bn for 2023.
How is it more environmentally friendly to bring food from brazil to the UK?
The emissions from transportation of those GMO soybeans for cattle feed is tiny compared to the the emissions from land use changes (pasture instead of trees) and methane emissions (CO2 absorbed by the plants, turned into methane and then emitted).
No one thinks it is. It is profitable.
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For what we read in the newspapers the majority of farmers voted for Brexit even though they received substantial subsidies from the EU. Why do they complain now ? What's the matter ? The disappearance of farmers in a Country is not a good sign .
They knew what they were voting for, apparently!
you apparently don't know that many farmers did not vote to leave the EU. Not one of the smartest commenters on here are you..
I like how you're critising the literal hand that feeds you...
Yeah how stupid were the EU farmers. I mean the struggles they have are almost identical to UK farmers. 😮
it will become a open-air museum and turist will visit farm how food was produced a dacade ago.
Yep. Consequences are only bad when they happen to me.
A completly mess
We knew subsidy was ending , farm gate prices are pretty good since brexit. Last thing most of us want is sub payments back and lower farm gate prices. We are like NZ was, the strongest survive .
Politicians bring this country here , is no one to blame , only theme. And in covid time they got more rich with all that contracts between theme. , now we all need to struggle for theme ,
its not climate laws that will hit farmers but the new trade deals. we wud buy the more expensive food thats healthier if there wasnt a choice for sgops t buy lower grade
In the end it will be a competition between prices, which can increase the most.
He will win the price that no one can pay anymore.
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Won't they have their cake and eat it? And how about all those cherries they picked?
can't the farmers pay enough to local workers instead of foreign workers?
they had decades of cheap labor, it's hard to get used to the new reality
Uk farmers will be going bust soon….as their farms are small , they use expensive American farms equipment.
They need to sell expensive produce to rich British consumers.
Farms are not so efficient now.
Uk farms would have problems competing against third world countries that uses cheap Chinese farm equipments ….
The third world countries are getting more efficient.
I noticed one USA orange sells for $1.50 but a smaller orange from Egypt sells for 1/6 the price.
No brainer which orange I would be buying.
I would buy the better tasting more sustainable american one
When 9-10 British products milk , butter meats they go off winthin a day taste bad and are super tough even when you pay top dollar , the only meat and dairy products I get are now Irish it’s how it’s suppose to be.
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Where is the outrage at farmer protests which gets directed at climate protesters? And streets full of tractors are much more disruptive than climate protests.
The world will depend on the few and they ok ensure everyone eat on their terms and conditions
Vote wales indipendence
Striking won’t do anything but people must rise
Brexit benefit
Britain is easily capable of being self sufficient in food, water and energy, yet with the political system held to ransom by the agendas of the ultra rich we will always deny ourselves these securities. We suffered in the second world war and so many lives were lost trying to deliver imports by sea. There are twice as many of us now and twice as dependent on imports. It is time we governed ourselves and implemented democracy.
Nonsense. Easily capable? The Kriegsmarine's U-boats almost brought Britain to it's knees. Food imports are a necessity. Logistics is what makes a successful civilization. This nonsese daydreaming of British autarky needs to end.
@@freshwaterspaceman7194 Yes, easily capable. We were food self-sufficient before the industrial revolution and for some time into it. Farm labour, of course, moved to the cities and production fell. Well, today we have no factories to fill. Mechanisation and huge advances in fertilisers have once again made it possible, despite twice the population, to produce our own food.
I am not suggesting we should stop imports at all. I am suggesting we should not be vulnerable to blockades ever again. It does not take hundreds of U-Boats to disrupt our logistics. A handful of missiles aimed at a few ships in the Near East recently has caused major disruption to supplies and once again we have to pay the cost of scarcity and military intervention.
When we are dependent on other states for food, we are not independent.
I read yesterday that the UK is 53% self sufficient in food.
@@warwickaldermanchannel2340 That sounds about right to me but in the event of a war or blockade a lot of the missing 47% would be food we could live without. Bananas and avocados, for example, which we could never grow here ourselves but eat a lot of. There would still be a significant deficit if we were blockaded but we have the land, the machinery and the farming tech right now to go self sufficient if there was the political will. Instead the government is actually paying farmers to quit and turn productive land into wild flower meadows!
Support our farmers......who voted Tory ! Yeah right!
No sympathy for me. They voted for Brexit and they got what they wanted.
Most of the old farmers that voted Leave have since retired or died. Their sons and daughters who were too young to vote are now picking up the pieces.
We want our star back
Don't be pathetic!
Crocodile years. These farmers and fishers overwhelmingly voted for cynical, lying, uncaring Tories and Brexit. They voted for their own demise.
The system want all farmers to comply with growing GMO foods... The system currently have got land where fake produce will be grown... Real farmers with Real produce are being penalized.... also farmers know they are being ripped off by the system increasing food prices but not paying them what they're owed!!.... If you know any local farms then go straight to them and purchase and give the farmers what they deserve. 🙏🏽
The Brexiteers and Nigel farce aren’t going around the farms saying how wonderful the sun lit uplands are. 🤔 that’s odd
What Brexit?
The trade barriers between the Free Trade Zone of the EU and us not sending anyone to make decisions.
That is what Brexit is, not a return to the British Empire.
Absolutely ZERO sympathy for the farmers. They voted for the Brexit and the Tories, they must face the consequences. I am not worried about the lack of food, delicious imports from EU are booming... Hope the police treats them the same as any other protests in London
We want uk back
For the last 10 years we complaints abou this mess caused by the capitalist and the European told us we must allow competition. If they can eat European farmers what about our African unskilled farmers in Africa. Africa doesn’t produce their food we are dependent and this is intentionally
ah yeah first time an african nation was on its own - Zimbabwe - look how nice it went, from being the basket of South-Africa to a nation that is NOW dependent on imports...
We are already subsiding them and now they want more. The wholesale market needs regulating and price controls.
Farmers are subsidised because 1. Government wants to control what they grow, 2. We are dependant on their produce and they are dependant on natural conditions like weather.
If Britain drives farmers into bankruptcy, they are shooting themselves in the foot.
Take a look from Argentina how well price controls work 😂
@@omonkkonen6676 Different market there.
Subsides going post brexit, consumers should start paying their way and pay the real price of food.
Cow farts are killing this world... apparantly
Actually it is human gas doing that job.
It is burps and it is methane which is terrible greenhouse gas.
Work going on to change their gut bacteria.
On the upside you wrote "farts" and displayed your lack of knowledge 😂
Tory brain farts add up
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM!!!
Farming has always been rubbish. It was especially rubbish in the 90s and 00s while we were in the EU.
Farming has always been rubbish. British farmers believe they produce world beating quality food because they use traditional production methods and expect the taxpayer to pay for their inefficiencies.
We in Holland and we are in de EU, the half of the farmers are suppose to sell their farms, the EU create food shortage to have more influence of civilians
Bs you're not telling the truth the dutch government have provided money to help them install the equipment needed to solve the nitrate runn off issue
No. It is 500 of 11000.
Food shortages in Europe.
Is that why they're not obese?
@@dallysinghson5569 not yet, long term
Well, the Dutch will have to choose. They have a small country, an overabundance of farmland and a huge shortage of housing. Unless, of course, they build the much needed new houses on water.
Brexit has given the farmers freedom of choice ..the choice to be happy in life with radical solutions and Spontaneous combustions.
Nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with the WEF!
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Another clueless, uneducated pillock. 🙄🤷🏻
Indeed, nothing to do with Brexit. British farmers believe they produce world beating quality food just because they use traditional production methods and expect the taxpayer to pay for their inefficiencies.
We want uk back
What does getting back UK mean?
@@omonkkonen6676 more unicorns
@@envoy888like independent Bank Of Scotland or Bank Of Wales? England slaving other members by using Bank Of England only