Food Shortage Plan Being Drawn Up To Thwart A Farmers’ Strike

[naomi24]

//A senior minister has revealed that plans are being drawn up to deal with food shortages if farmers go ahead with their threat to strike over the controversial family farm tax....Farmers are set to descend on London in their thousands on Tuesday to protest against plans to impose a 20 per cent inheritance tax on farms worth £1m or more. They have warned that the policy will destroy family farms across the country or see them broken up....But more worrying for the government are the plans by farmers to go on strike and stop food production to give ministers a taste of what it would be like if the UK food-producing sector were no longer operating.//

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farmers-strike-food-shortage-plan-louise-haigh-b2648509.html

 

 

A grim prospect heralding a grim winter.  When will the stockpiling begin?

[douglas9401]

News just in, sky falling.

[nicebloke1]

If the farmers wish to shoot themselves in the foot and distroy their own businesses so be it. They flood the market with far to much produce anyhow, and in turn dumped. The French have tried many times to bring its government down or change a policy and have failed many times, Keir not for u turns. 

It will be short lived if they do strike anyhow, because their income will dive to no income at all, plus supermarkets will just increase their orders from other countries.

[Electrochem]

Let's hope people use some common sense, but I wouldn't hold my breath!

If stockpiling does start, strict rationing needs to begin, with limits put on how much people can buy. The press don't help as people read this things and go into panic mode.

 

[Madgeorge]

Toilet roll growers must be rubbing their hands as we speak!

[fiveleaves]

The inheritance tax will only affect a small number of farms each years. The government should stand its ground against them. So many people demand better public services. The money has to come from somewhere. Are we at a state of such selfishness whereby every tax incease however modest has people screaming and shouting?

What is more serious for food production is the poor harvests this year caused by the rubbish weather this Spring and Summer

 

 

[naomi24]

14.07. What is more serious for food production is no harvest.  No farm - no harvest.

[david small]

It's not so much as to where the money comes from, but as to where its going.

[Ryzen]

The IHT should stay as it is, to keep the farm together and encourage food production.  However, if land is later sold, it would attract taxation.

[pastafreak]

Nicebloke @ 13:27...I'd not blame the farmers for flooding the market as you call it. They grow and supply according to the demands of the supermarkets that buy from them. The same supermarkets that have...in the recent past at least...rejected misshapen vegetables. Tons of them iirc. Because that's what consumers want.