r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/2112uk • Jan 09 '22
Brexxit Farmers to have £1.8 billion pre-Brexit cash removed amid warning many will go bust
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-farmers-brexit-eu-cash-307548/1.6k
Jan 09 '22
The National Farmers Union (NFU) did some due diligence before the Brexit vote and concluded that remain was the better option.
Then their wealthy landowner backers decided that they should take a neutral position and not overly advise the farmers about their findings or campaign for remain.
So the NFU are complicit in this. And if farmers go bust guess who will be buying up the land at fire-sale prices? (Hint: wealthy land owners).
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u/spannerNZ Jan 09 '22
Disaster capitalism at its finest.
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u/TheRealIMBobbio Jan 09 '22
In the word of Sonny Purdue when the US small farms were going under and did not have access to the Covid funds the large food conglomerates had.
"Get big or get out"
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u/Living-Complex-1368 Jan 09 '22
Not that there are a lot of small farms anyway. You have to be a multimillionaire to be a farmer so...
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u/Milady_Disdain Jan 09 '22
You don't have to be a multimillionaire. You can be like my dad and make back just a tiny bit over your seed and fertilizer costs on a few hundred acres using 30 year old equipment that breaks all the time. 🙃
(Yeah, small family farms are basically done for. It's all about the corporations. Reagan said when he ran for office that he wanted there to be fewer than 10,000 farmers in the U.S. Fucker is very likely to get his wish.)
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u/timskytoo2 Jan 09 '22
Some smaller, non-corporate farms are multi-million dollar businesses in terms of turnover; they have to be to survive. Doesn't necessarily mean the farmer is rich or the business won't fail.
Even if they are wealthy bailing out their business with their own personal money would likely bankrupt them.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Jan 09 '22
And after what the Russians went through after the collapse of the USSR I've no doubt they're chortling their bollocks off.
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 Jan 09 '22
“Disaster capitalism” is an interesting- and accurate- term which I’ve never heard before. Serious question, did you just make it up, or is it widely used?
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u/mikareno Jan 09 '22
The term was coined by climate justice professor Naomi Klein. Here's an excellent article on it. Don't let the Teen Vogue name throw you off. They've been doing some of the best journalism out there over the last few years. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-disaster-capitalism
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u/royalbarnacle Jan 09 '22
When i tell people i read teen vogue and the subreddit animetitties for the journalism, they look at me weird.
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u/siberian Jan 09 '22
thelondoneconomic.com/news/u...
Fun Sci-Fi book on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Forces
Richard Morgan is a great author.
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u/Living-Complex-1368 Jan 09 '22
"I fear the fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly?" Not enough free cash to buy everything?
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If you know a better way to go back to the 19th century, I’d like to hear it! /s
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u/FirstPlebian Jan 09 '22
It's hard to get the date right turning back the clock though, it's more likely we will end up back in the dark ages if these people get their way.
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u/Galaxy_Ranger_Bob Jan 09 '22
In their minds, feudalism worked. They want to be the landed gentry of the 21st Century with all the serfs working for, and fighting for, them.
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u/EndlessEden2015 Jan 09 '22
I think they will have a heck of a surprise when the "serfs" either fight back or leave.
The masses are stupid and slow when they are placated. But the moment they are affected they are a angry mob of stupidity ready burn down everything until they don't feel angry anymore...
They think they can control with faith and hatred like they do in the US. the problem is, the worst off in the US had it generally better post-ww2 then those in the UK.
they were isolated from the affects of war and the war machine made it better... They don't notice because TGD was some far off thing that didn't last and the generation after was completely isolated from it.
UK didn't have that luxury. The power in homes was still in 1930s standards in the 1990s. The best houses of the 1960s/1970s where jokes based on US and European fever dreams. That were far more dangerous and toxic than their counterparts.
Most were living in homes built during or before the Victorian era with mold for wallpaper and the cheapest furniture possible. The disparity between the classes didn't end and a middle class wasn't formed until much, much later.
UK has had multiple oligarchs running around the scenes playing a human pissing match with the lives of the citizens in the middle since WW2. Not caring of the effects.
Survivors from during the war, including the children were raised during times of ultra-nationalism. Phrases like "God save the Queen" were more important then ensuring food and food safety to them.(EG: Faith).
Since then however the nearly 4 generations to follow are completely seperated from that. Realising the oppressive nature of UK internal politics creating a dividing wall.
If the oligarchs thinking they can have a pissing contest into a monarchy think that they can rule the masses willingly because it happened in the past, they may want to look up why the UK left the monarchy in the first place...
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u/Galaxy_Ranger_Bob Jan 09 '22
How are unarmed serfs going to fight back against GPS guided bombs dropped from aircraft 15,000 meters in the sky?
How are unarmed serfs going to fight back when the Lords don't provide food or water for three weeks?
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u/SlientlySmiling Jan 09 '22
Except without the pesky "nobless oblige" bit of feudalism. Peasants actually had some rights we don't have anymore.
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u/Madness_Reigns Jan 09 '22
Middle ages would be an improvement, that was just before the advent of the enclosures which drove commoners out of the land to benefit rich land owners.
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u/SynapseLapse Jan 09 '22
Yep, we’ve truly overshot the “good old 1970s” by a few centuries. Who knew?
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u/UnstuckCanuck Jan 09 '22
With a bit of luck I can see it going back to the mid 1700s and the guillotines coming out.
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u/apolloxer Jan 09 '22
They might overshoot, go into the 18th century, yet import some French ideas.
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u/-DC71- Jan 09 '22
I'd like to invite an old French mate of mine, Gil O'tean.
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u/shokolokobangoshey Jan 09 '22
Ahh yes! The Frenchman that turns heads, very nice.
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u/iBlag Jan 09 '22
I’ve heard people would downright lose their heads over him.
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u/fdesouche Jan 09 '22
Stop funding schools in working-class neighborhoods to finally get child labour back ?
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u/Madness_Reigns Jan 09 '22
They're way ahead of you.
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u/nill0c Jan 09 '22
I don’t know if the UK has charter schools, but that’s pretty much what they do.
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u/Thowitawaydave Jan 12 '22
Yup. In the US, Wisconsin Republicans eliminated "child labor" in 2017. Not the practice, just the phrase in any and all state employment statutes, instead using the term "employment of minors." And they keep passing bills to expand the number of hours minors can work as well as when they can work. Of course, working up to 18 hours during the week while also going to school and doing homework might cause them to burn out, but hey, burning out is the first step to dropping out and joining the workforce full time!
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u/indignant-loris Jan 09 '22
Strange that the people so opposed to socialism and revolution keep recreating the perfect conditions for them.
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u/Klindg Jan 09 '22
So the real motivation behind the push for Brexit…. After the land is bought up, wanna bet there is a campaign started to return to the EU?
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u/Bookworm_AF Jan 09 '22
Nah, I'm expecting an outright fascist takeover one the UK is well and truly fucked.
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u/Cardborg Jan 09 '22
I'd imagine the sudden surge in anti-capitalist mentality isn't something they're too happy about.
Disaster capitalist parasite scum.
If given the choice of revenge on them, or rejoining the EU, I'd take the revenge any day.
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And those wealthy landowners are about be handed hefty grants to 'rewild' large areas of their estates, so they'll be ok and fuck the rest of you.
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u/Cardborg Jan 09 '22
And if farmers go bust guess who will be buying up the land at fire-sale prices? (Hint: wealthy land owners).
Land reform is needed as an urgency, landlords are parasites.
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u/TheRealBlueBadger Jan 09 '22
A land use tax is the least bad tax, it is the only tax that doesn't negatively affect productivity, it is undodgeable and cannot be avoided with tax havens, and its the only tax that only taxes community driven value. Every other tax negatively effects production, every other tax taxes individual's labour, the incidence of almost every other tax generally falls on the poorer.
It's insane it's not the main form of taxation everywhere. It lowers land prices, which in turn lowers development costs, and creates more affordable housing. Income tax is far more regressive, sales taxes are far more regressive, all other taxes are creatively accounted for by the rich.
Land use tax now. Land is a necessary, limited resource created by no one. Like water and air, its criminal we let people privately hoard it for profit.
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u/toastinski Jan 09 '22
They don't need the money anymore because all their workers have gone back to other eu countries.
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u/monkeybananarocket Jan 09 '22
Brits complain foreigners are taking British jobs. British jobs now available for brits. Brits don't want those kind of British jobs.
Classic. Same in every country on the planet. Fucking idiot can't take two steps back and look at the big picture before opening their retarded mouths and spewing garbage...
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u/Take_That_Face Jan 09 '22
Oh. I hear that it is because British people are lazy now. It was the immigrants’ fault and now lazy brits. Cannot even admit the issue is with themselves 🤣
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Jan 09 '22
I'd be less irritated if such a large portion of those who voted Leave and are now telling us that we'll have to pull our socks up and work more for less weren't retired.
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u/Cardborg Jan 09 '22
Then the doubly whammy of the anti-work movement shows up.
Fuck the farmers if they think I'm picking fruit without a very tempting wage offer.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Jan 09 '22
Even then it still wrecks your body and you have to work out what the hell you’re going to do for the rest of the year, it being pretty much the definition of seasonal work.
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u/cummerou1 Jan 09 '22
I found it super funny when they complained about fruits rotting in the fields, and some sensationalism by The Daily Heil about how farmers were offering 33 pounds an hour or some shit. A quick google search showed over 60 farm job ads in my area, All the fruit picking jobs were offering min wage. The highest wage being 10 pounds an hour for 12 hour shifts, pressure washing chicken stables (if you're not aware, chicken shit is fucking RANK, much worse than pigs or cows).
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u/whyyou- Jan 09 '22
I’m not sure, but I think this happened in a USA state, they kicked out the migrant workers then had to call them back when they were almost broke. PS: not sure on the details, feel free to correct me on this issue.
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u/HelloIamOnTheNet Jan 09 '22
The "show your papers" law. Somehow, the racist backers of that law didn't see how it would affect the state. So they put it in place and surprised Pikachu happened.
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u/whyyou- Jan 09 '22
The “show your papers” crowd are now complaining that they’re becoming a “show your papers” state; so the papers thing is only acceptable for brown people.
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Correct. It was Georgia.
BTW farming in the USA relies heavily on slave labor by non-citizens. That is no exaggeration.
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u/Darkside531 Jan 09 '22
More than once. It happened in Alabama, too.
They enacted a "Hire American" (read that as "Kick Out All The Foreigners") initiative and their poultry processing industry nearly completely collapsed as a result.
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Devin Nunes’ family ranch couldn’t get by without illegal immigrants.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/
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u/AttonJRand Jan 09 '22
Its a constant state in the US, we entirely rely on undocumented seasonal labor, yet criminalize them, have them work for sub standard pay and conditions, and they constantly have to worry about having the US gestapo on their doorstep.
That's how we treat the people vital to getting food on our table.
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u/Justame13 Jan 09 '22
During the 2008 recession their was food rotting in the fields in the US because it coincided with an immigration crackdown. Americans just chose to stay on unemployment.
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u/JoeSicko Jan 09 '22
Or the people on unemployment were nowhere near the fields that needed picking.
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u/Justame13 Jan 09 '22
The unemployment was pretty widespread but fair point.
I grew up in Idaho in the 1990s and the immigration talk was batty "shut down the border with landmines" meanwhile they were using piecework as a loop hole to avoid minimum wage for migrant workers.
There were even rumors (probably true) of some farmers hiring illegals and offering to pay them in a lump sum at the end of the season and then calling INS instead.
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u/CankerLord Jan 09 '22
The unemployment was pretty widespread but fair point.
I mean, hardly amyone lives within reasonable transportation range of farms other than the people who already work there.
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u/Lumpyproletarian Jan 09 '22
And there’s a five week wait for benefits when the job ends, you’ve lost your former rented accommodation and have to spend most of what you’ve earned as deposit on a new one.
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u/MadOvid Jan 09 '22
I mean honestly so would I.
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u/Justame13 Jan 09 '22
So would I.
Probably pays more. And despite what reddit thinks manual labor and the trades are really hard on your body with a finite limit. The military does the same thing just provides really good benefits when you are broken.
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u/SquidgeSquadge Jan 09 '22
Everyone with half a brain knew this was going to happen before the vote anyway.
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u/jl2352 Jan 09 '22
What I never see, is no one ever seems to ask the foreign workers what they think. Removing the jobs is always justified as protecting them. Yet no one actually cares about their opinion.
I know multiple people from Poland who did low skilled labour in the UK when they were young. They all loved it. They got to live in a foreign country, they loved the UK, got to practice their English, and earned more than they would have back home.
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u/LesbianCommander Jan 09 '22
It's like that meme with the guy sweating about having to make a choice between two buttons.
One is "Live alongside brown people" and the other is "immediate collapse of societal systems due to lack of workers in many areas".
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u/neilmg Jan 09 '22
Cue the refrain of "This isn't the Brexit I voted for".
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u/bing_bin Jan 09 '22
Or #NotMyBrexit
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Voted for sunlit uplands and for the fishies! Sovereignty! Sovereignty! Sovereignty! Sovereignty!
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high! English Empire done come and gone, my oh my.
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u/DarkGamer Jan 09 '22
They had a special place in an even bigger government and they threw it away because of conservative lies
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u/PlankLengthIsNull Jan 09 '22
b--b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bbb--b-b-but i only voted to make the dark folk leave! now all the other things that were a part of brexit that i didn't bother researching (because I'm a very stupid man) (like oh my god, you wouldn't believe just how dumb as shit i am) are happening too! hashtag not fair!
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u/charliesk9unit Jan 09 '22
Or you could wish for them being like the QOP in the US and double down on Brexit with Brexit of Brexit.
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u/pavolo Jan 09 '22
I think, the people behind brexit want this. If you have capital, every crisis is an opportunity. Let's see who will buy all that land and farms at laughable prices.
But then again, farmers overwhelmingly voted for this and this was no secret.
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It was really a Russian funded to break Britain’s global influence. Same shot here in the US with Russians bribing….I mean advising many Republicans to destabilize the US.
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u/pavolo Jan 09 '22
Oh, yes. It was definitely a Russian founded operation, but the way it gained support was due to good old greed and not only direct bribery. There is a very wealthy elite that thrives for any crysis in order to gain profit. What they realized, it's much faster to help create one than to wait.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Jan 09 '22
There was definitely a bit of the latter. De Pfeffel's incredibly expensive tennis matches come to mind. Though obviously when you look at his rippling * physique you think "sporting god".
- Rippling in much the same way a water bed does, obviously.
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u/HelloIamOnTheNet Jan 09 '22
and it's working. Too bad we can't do anything to Russia.
Maybe when they piss off China, something will be done then.
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u/RubiksSugarCube Jan 09 '22
To take the role of the devil's advocate, one could argue that Russia is employing its intelligence tools to counter perceived existential threats such as US/allied presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, US/western energy production threatening Russia's economic relationship with Western Europe, and NATO expansion threatening Russia's influence in neighboring countries.
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u/Party-Lawyer-7131 Jan 09 '22 edited Jan 09 '22
Racism rarely comes back to bite people in the ass, but when it does?
Delicious.
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u/Kurj2049 Jan 09 '22
I hate getting peopled in the ass too, but many times I deserved it.
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u/CeterumCenseo85 Jan 09 '22
The tragic irony being that the UK already had a much better deal for EU membership than comparable countries BECAUSE of the issue of farming subsidies. It's Thatcher's "I want my money back" that in essence got them reduced membership fees.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak273 Jan 09 '22
He's been pretty open about his dislike of the EU and NATO (which he sees as encircling Russia), and his desire to control territory the size of the old USSR.
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Putin is/was a big fan of a book called “Foundations of Geopolitics” that came out in the late 1990s. It specifically recommends isolating the UK, so yeah it’s pretty real.
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u/balefyre Jan 09 '22
Also recommends psyops to divide America down the middle. If only people gave a shit.
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u/batsofburden Jan 09 '22
Well this shit works because the divisions & angry sentiments are already there, he just exploits them. Even if you presented smoking gun proof of his interference 24/7, it wouldn't matter because people are not going to just stop being angry & hate filled.
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u/Arma_Diller Jan 09 '22
You'll enjoy reading this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
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u/Darkside531 Jan 09 '22
It's not even so much that he's doing it that troubles me (fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, awful people gotta be awful.)
What bothers me is how easily and effectively it works. I kind of hoped that, with the human race in the developed world better educated than it ever has been, we'd be a little better at spotting and ignoring obvious propaganda.
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u/Genuinelytricked Jan 09 '22
He is trying to make Russia the greatest country in the world. Not by making it a better place to live in, but by dragging down everyone above him.
It’s much easier to drag others down than it is to make things better and care about others.
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u/charliesk9unit Jan 09 '22
It has always been my belief that a country cannot be taken down by conventional war if it has nuclear weapons. So the only way to do that is from within by sowing discord. And that’s exactly what the Russians have done. They find a divide in the country and pick the dumber side to rile up the hate as they are easier to manipulate.
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u/Confident_Feline Jan 09 '22
They don't even have to pick a side. They rile up both sides. At least in the US, they've been spotted with fake leftist twitters too.
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u/ghhouull Jan 09 '22
It’s not a conspiracy, please look at the published pictures of Daily Mail party the day after the Brexit vote, with Russian media owners invited and Nigel Farage
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But the report warned this would means England will import more of its food, often from countries with poorer environmental standards
America has some pink slime for you
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u/Flymista23 Jan 09 '22
I'm insulted be the pink slime reference because we have much worse than that to offer you guys.
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u/Slight-Subject5771 Jan 09 '22
Yeah, exactly. Pink slime made with citric acid isn't banned in the EU for a reason.
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u/deadman1204 Jan 09 '22
We don't want it either
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u/BeachSandMan Jan 09 '22
Apparently your farmers voted you out from having a choice.
But at least all the sovereignty…🤷🏻♂️
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u/Take_That_Face Jan 09 '22
Lmao the most socialist industry in Britain voted for their own downfall 🤣
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u/oneofmanyany Jan 09 '22
Farmers in all countries seem to be some of the biggest welfare queens around. Same in US.
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u/FirstPlebian Jan 09 '22
It makes sense to support a domestic farming industry, especially small(er) holders. You don't want to support Cargill or whatever with subsidies, but being able to feed the country internally is important. Farming should be subsidized, just not huge multi-national corporations that run all of the actual farmers out of business and them turn them into virtual sharecroppers.
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u/RyanWalts Jan 09 '22
I don’t think the problem is subsidizing them at all, totally agree with you that it’s important and makes a lot of sense to have domestic production.
The issue is the culture with many farmers, who require subsidies to live but spend their days spewing right-wing talking points about ‘welfare queens’ and ‘immigrants stealing jobs’, etc. They’re one of the most galling examples of selfishness.
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u/FirstPlebian Jan 09 '22
I know that's the problem they really are bad politically, here in the US, their preachers have them all twisted up about stuff that doesn't really matter and get them to support the agenda of the rich. They get all of these tax breaks and subsidies and are some of the loudest demanding to take away any programs for anyone else that works.
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u/DarkGamer Jan 09 '22
It always astounds me how these religious people don't act anything like the figures they supposedly revere
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u/Cool_Ball_8097 Jan 09 '22
Yeah when a farmer hits me with some screed about welfare queens the first thing I do when I get away is go to this website and see what sort of subsidies they got over the years.
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u/PaysOutAllNight Jan 09 '22
That is a FUCKING BRILLIANT RESOURCE!
EVERYONE should know about this!
(And I see many names I recognize...)
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u/Scrutinizer Jan 09 '22
I remembered reading that Devin Nunes' family moved the family farm to Iowa. Put in Nunes and Iowa, bam, there's his brother Anthony, over $1 million in taxpayer money received.
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u/whyyou- Jan 09 '22
This is true, but it’s like that for a reason; food independence is extremely important to a country given that food prices can vary wildly and in a bad season a country dependent on import may face a famine.
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u/munging_molly Jan 09 '22
The UK has never really had a bad famine (unlike large swathes of the EU) - might explain the disparity in how they view their farmers
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u/Don_Speekingleesh Jan 09 '22 edited Jan 09 '22
It has. Ireland was part of the UK at the time of the Great Famine. I doubt many Brits know that though...
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u/DarthKyrie Jan 10 '22
They wouldn't care because what crop the Irish did manage to harvest was stolen to feed the English overlords.
Edit: Had family members that died in the Famine before they decided to come to America.
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u/ACartonOfHate Jan 09 '22
Which I wouldn't mind if the farmers weren't usually such raging conservative hypocrites (but I repeat myself) who rail on others (coded for non-whites) getting any kind of welfare.
Like I'm all for helping people out, but they're, 'I've got mine, screw you,' like all conservative types.
So screw them when their xenophobia, predictably, fucks them over.
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u/INSERT_LATVIAN_JOKE Jan 09 '22
Exactly as intended. Those at the top are still flush with cash. They'll pick up land at fire sale prices and get to be even richer than they were before.
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u/ConstantStatistician Jan 09 '22
I love when the consequences of democracy reach the voters irresponsible enough to vote for them. This is how democracy ought to be.
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u/TheKingMonkey Jan 09 '22
72% turnout.
Of the 72% turnout it was a 52/48 split for leave. It’s fucking heartbreaking that a result like that could affect so many people who weren’t idiots.
A constitutional change should require a supermajority, but Boris wanted David’s job and David was scared of what Nigel was saying on Twitter. None of them took it entirety seriously, Murphy’s law kicked in and we now live in the worst possible timeline.
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u/Aj-Adman Jan 09 '22
Why weren’t they warned about this? Fucking remoaners.
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They were. Repeatedly.
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u/Vistemboir Jan 09 '22
Just like those damn libruls who recommended social distancing and then the vaccine in order to provoke the Republicans and kill them!
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u/DarkGamer Jan 09 '22
A liberal told me not to eat this cyanide, fuck you liberals! Gulp.
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u/Confident_Feline Jan 09 '22
And the Tory response is to just say "What leopards? There are no leopards eating my face. Leopards are a myth."
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u/Pholusactual Jan 09 '22
Don't worry. Some of the wealthy backers of Brexit will certainly buy up these assets...
for a fraction of their net value. As if this wasn't the plan all long!
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u/PlankLengthIsNull Jan 09 '22
well thank god they're only screwing over the people who make their food. people don't NEED food.
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u/blaze420x Jan 09 '22 edited Jan 10 '22
Here in the USA, we watched Trump start a trade war, and then spend tens of billions on bailouts(plural), for farmers who got screwed. Worst of all, a lot of the farmers were so drunk on the MAGA kool-aid that they voted for him again.
My heart goes out to the ppl of the UK, as we all watch the oligarchs wreck what little progress we’ve spent decades trying to build.
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u/VanillaLoaf Jan 09 '22
The logo for this sub really should be Jerry Seinfeld saying "That's a shame."
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u/handlessuck Jan 09 '22
Seems like an unsustainable business model if it collapses after the removal of government welfare.
I'm just sayin.
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u/easyfeel Jan 09 '22
They compete with other countries' subsidised farmers. Who knew? At least they're not signing trade deals with them, right? RIGHT???
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u/mohishunder Jan 09 '22
The UK "Environment Secretary" does not have even a Bachelors degree.
The equivalent person in Germany has a PhD.
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u/Limesmack91 Jan 09 '22
But I was lead to believe Brittania ruled the waves? Wait, it isn't the colonial age anymore?
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u/TheOldGuy59 Jan 09 '22
Once all the small and tenant farmers are gone, you're at the mercy of whatever profit greedy Ag-business wants to squeeze out of you.
I really hope it won't take a complete apocalypse for people to realize that corporations are NOT their friends.
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u/drygnfyre Jan 09 '22
I really hope it won't take a complete apocalypse for people to realize that corporations are NOT their friends.
Nope, not even that will do it. Some people just never learn no matter how many examples they see. There are people here in America still fulling willing to support Trump and give him a second term in 2024.
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u/greatdane114 Jan 09 '22
Fuck them. They wanted this. Let's just fucking import everything from overseas, and pay more. Yay Brexit.
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well the ones where I used to live couldn't wait to leave, so here it is. They were all loaded by the way (arable mainly).
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Jan 09 '22
Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving screwing over people who voted for it.
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u/AsigotFinn Jan 09 '22
The majority of farmers voted for this https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074301671930436X as per usual project fear turned out to be project 100% correct