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As nationally critical as home produced food is to the UK, farming is being hit hard by Labour.
This Government has proven explicitly that it cares nothing for farming, for farmers, for farming families, nor the countryside as a whole.
Appeasement of the Parliamentary Labour Party, already restless and troublesomely emboldened, becomes a matter of pressing managerial priority for Labour. And it is to that end that farming and the countryside now sits even more squarely within Labour’s hard-Left ideological sights.
Things are moving quickly now, a sign of how Labour has positioned the demise of the countryside as part of a core agenda. From pre-Election lies, to post-Election stitch up, farming is now in the process of being set up to brutally fail.
The politicised anti-farming narrative now shifts toward land. Land is being linked to un-earned wealth. As this Labour Government flounders on, it gears up to come after wealth. For farmers that will mean a spiteful, and increasingly focused, targeting of land.
Family farms need help. It is time for alternative politics to step up to this pressing rural challenge.
But a message to farmers, also - next time around you must have the courage to choose that which stands to make all the difference.
@SDPhq
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