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Secondly, us farmers have the means at our disposal to inflict real damage on the government. This has come at the start of the quiet time on British farms when arable farmers can’t get on the land until spring and livestock farmers have no calving or lambing to worry about and many dairy cows are being dried off. There is time to cause mischief and if this week’s negotiations between the government and the NFU fail to achieve any meaningful changes to the Budget there could be a serious revolt. There are already plans to boycott the disposal of sewage cake on British farms. That will cause a problem for the water companies and may lead to the government having to step in to deal with mountains of excrement. And the food supply may be disrupted. Grain and potatoes sitting in farm stores may be held back, causing economic damage to breweries, millers and chip factories. If the handful of ports that process our food imports are blockaded simultaneously, the shelves could soon be bare again, as they were under Covid, hastened by panic buying. And of course it would be very easy to bring motorways to a standstill if we wanted. Other sectors may come out in support. It isn’t just farmers being hit by the loss of IHT reliefs in the budget – hauliers may join blockages. And if family funeral directors stopped burying the dead we would be heading towards another winter of discontent.
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Secondly, us farmers have the means at our disposal to inflict real damage on the government. This has come at the start of the quiet time on British farms when arable farmers can’t get on the land until spring and livestock farmers have no calving or lambing to worry about and many dairy cows are being dried off. There is time to cause mischief and if this week’s negotiations between the government and the NFU fail to achieve any meaningful changes to the Budget there could be a serious revolt. There are already plans to boycott the disposal of sewage cake on British farms. That will cause a problem for the water companies and may lead to the government having to step in to deal with mountains of excrement. And the food supply may be disrupted. Grain and potatoes sitting in farm stores may be held back, causing economic damage to breweries, millers and chip factories. If the handful of ports that process our food imports are blockaded simultaneously, the shelves could soon be bare again, as they were under Covid, hastened by panic buying. And of course it would be very easy to bring motorways to a standstill if we wanted. Other sectors may come out in support. It isn’t just farmers being hit by the loss of IHT reliefs in the budget – hauliers may join blockages. And if family funeral directors stopped burying the dead we would be heading towards another winter of discontent.
https://archive.ph/ZPZSk