CSM EDITORIAL
As readers of this magazine will know very well by now, there is a farmer protest organised for Tuesday 19th November in London. The organisers are claiming, soundly, that the planned rally will “help deliver a strong and clear message to the government while in the heart of London, that family farms and the rural community stand united against the government’s catastrophic Budget.”
The last thing the Labour government needs is a miners-with-tractors style conflagration. Before they know it there will be motorways clogged, Taylor Swift stuck in traffic, and townies wondering why their supermarket shelves are empty. Starmer will have to build a load more jails to house the latest round of ‘enemies of the state’ to sit alongside that old dear who shouted at a police dog.
This magazine has been sent correspondence showing coach companies warned off by the Metropolitan Police from taking protesters from the countryside to the capital.
Talk about dumb.
It’s as if the police want farmers to take their tractors into London.
The more angry farmers in coaches the better, no?
The protest that is planned is expected to be well-attended and supported by some very mainstream characters. The police have on the whole been helpful and decent. Let’s hope the rally goes off peacefully and that this Government by Sixth Form gets the message, that they are incredibly unpopular and their idea of ‘fixing the foundations’ will work as well for them as it did for Hugo Chávez.
The Squires are fully behind the farmers and their protest. Starmer needs to learn that you do not bite off the hand that feeds you. Labour, over-excited about being in power, needs to keep its attack dogs on a tighter leash. It is time for one of Starmer’s characteristic u-turns on his government’s farm inheritance tax brainfart.