CraigWalton9

Do quite understand your argument against the #FarmersMarch: it is an egalitarian one. And so, actually, is that of the gov't. I also well comprehend why people don't sympathise with the farmers. >> you're saying they should have different protesting laws applied to them [from @JustStop_Oil]?? The point I've gone to some effort to drive home is that, egalitarianism, doesn't do you much good when you're starving. They're White, male, not socialist, English, toil the literal earth, are utterly alien, to the urbanite: all while refusing to apologise for any of it... it's very easy to see why the farmers don't garner many friends! And it's perfectly fine to oppose them. But if you do *not back the farmers? That means you WANT something too: your doing so has, consequences; beyond tractor, and silage... traffic inconveniences. It means that, you want the *worst food price inflation* you have know, in your whole lifetime, in recent years, to become only worse. That wince that you've given, over and over, on seeing your supermarket bill: for that, to keep going up, and up, and up. You can pretend that the farmers are not serious, about being at the end of their tether, and leaving agriculture, but you aren't just gambling with your own belly, by doing so: whilst plainly knowing that they are quite sincere. Backing the gov't against the farmers has costs and *you will incur them: they aren't holding you to ransom, they will just give @UKLabour what it wants. Selling up their land, leaving farming, and simply letting you get more hungry: as your prices go further upwards. Because Britain is an island. The LESS acreage farmed, the MORE food has to be imported, and that costs fuel. There aren't any lithium battery-powered cargo ships, or airliners, and there won't ever be. Fewer farmers QED means onwards: to still higher food costs. Unavoidably. People cannot eat wind turbines (sorry Mr Miliband) and no matter how many migrants the UK imports, Yvette, it isn't going to allow cannibalism either... Your partisanship against them, has economic consequences you will end up feeling in your pocket: every week. You can seek to pretend via casuistry that you somehow shall not, yet you most definitely shall. (picture credit: @lucymarionbrown)