Disturbing threat to the future of our farms

Western Daily Press, 5 November 2024, p. 17

Your report on the Budget being “disastrous for both family and tenant farmers” is disturbing at a number of levels.

The Covid pandemic, with its draconian lockdowns, was catastrophic for small businesses, with huge numbers closing for good, or else being thrust into desperate financial circumstances from which many are still recovering.

In great contrast, large corporate businesses were commonly allowed to stay open throughout the lockdowns, so producing a grossly unfair and inequitable competitive environment. Is it a coincidence that this outcome converges very closely with the future intentions of the globalist elite and its public-face organisation, the World Economic Forum (WEF)?

In light of this appalling assault on small businesses as a result of imposed Covid lockdowns, one would expect subsequent governments to be bending over backwards to help small businesses back towards a fair competitive environment, but not a bit of it, judging by Labour’s first Budget and the outcry from the small-business sector.

Farming is a further case in point. Again, the globalist agenda is to launch a concerted attack on our capacity to produce good food (see recent developments in the Netherlands, for example); and once again, Labour’s Budget does the job – with small farm businesses henceforth finding it very difficult to pay the new inheritance tax levels without having to either liquidate, or radically re-organise, family farms that have often been passed through generations, and which are already often barely existing on very narrow margins.

Like Trudeau, Macron and the other WEF-trained globalist leaders, and in relation to the globalist agenda, Starmer’s Labour has certainly hit the ground running – and tellingly finds itself in the same free-fall levels of unpopularity “enjoyed” by Trudeau, Macron and the rest.

Richard House

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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