On Thursday farmers protested in Westminster over the government’s “cruel” inheritance tax and over Labour’s latest decision to pause paid subsidies in yet “another shattering blow” to the farming sector.
The President of the National Farmers Union has hit out at Labour pausing the subsidies that helps 50,000 farmers across the country, whilst the government say that are “proud to have set the biggest budget for sustainable food produce in history.”
Farmer Henry Graham told GB News slammed Labour over the move and is urging them to “consider the implications of their actions.”
He said, “Our message to the Government is they really need to consider the implications of what they’re doing to farming in the UK.
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They are actively destroying family farms, slightly bigger farms and smaller farms – anything to do with agriculture.
He warned that Labour’s decisions is “discouraging any form of growth” within the farming sector.
He added, “All the policies they are bringing in is actively discouraging any form of potential growth, and even trying to stand still, they’re going to make it impossible for us to continue farming, and it will change the whole of this UK countryside.
I really don’t think they have considered that at all.
He said, “We were actually halfway through putting an SFI (Sustainable Farming Incentive) application in, and it was us planning three years in advance.
“We’ve actively had to pull out because we cannot go ahead, and it will have a massive impact. We can’t afford to have to farm it.
“It’s actively going back generations to just after the war, we had to farm every single inch of ground, which isn’t the way we were moving forward.”
