A British farmer has warned of “militant action” against the Labour Government following their “direct attack” on family farms.
National Farmers’ Union President Tom Bradshaw has called for the “unacceptable” policy on inheritance tax to be “overturned”, and has organised a mass lobby of MPs on November 19.
However, disgruntled farmers across the country are getting “very close” to unleashing more physical demonstrations in Westminster, one farmer has claimed.
Speaking to GB News, family farmer Charles Goadby hit out at the “incomprehensible” decision made by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, stressing that the move “can’t be allowed to happen”.
Farmer Charles Goadby warned of ‘more militant action’ if the inheritance tax raid is not ‘overturned’
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Goadby explained: “This inheritance tax, this family farm tax, has got to be scrapped. It’s just incomprehensible the amount of damage that it’s going to do to farming in this country, to food production in this country and the economy as a whole.
“We can’t allow this to happen. This is not just a direct attack on farmers, this is a direct attack on our food security and a direct attack on the economy – it is just not viable, full stop.”
When asked what the mood is amongst other farmers across the country following the announcement, Goadby claimed that the feeling is “increasingly more militant”, despite their first move being simply a mass lobby of MPs.
Goadby told GB News: “It’s getting very close to being militant. We’ve got this mass lobby on the 19th, where 600 members, initially of the NFU, were hopeful of going down to be able to have mass meetings and meet individual MPs all on a one to one basis.
President of the National Farmers’ Union Tom Bradshaw has organised a ‘mass lobby’ of MPs on November 19
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“But already that’s 1800 farms registered, not farmers. So on each one of those farms, there’s going to be more than one member. So they’re expecting an awful lot of people there.”
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Detailing what the farmers’s next steps could be if the lobbying doesn’t go in their favour, Goadby warned: “If we don’t get the outcome that there has to be, then I can see more militant action happening.
“I’m getting phone calls constantly throughout the day from people asking what’s the next step? Who are we going to target? Because at the end of the day, we can’t allow this to happen.”
Noting the previous demands from government to maintain food security during the coronavirus pandemic, Goadby made clear that the inheritance tax raid on farms could jeopardise that entirely.
Goadby fumed: “We had over a million people demanding that we maintain food security in this country. Now, if this tax comes about, we’re going to see family farms not being able to survive.
Charles Goadby told GB News that the inheritance tax raid is ‘incomprehensible’
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“Food production in the UK is not going to be sustainable, so we’re going to be seeing more and more imports of produce that doesn’t meet our standards – doesn’t meet our environmental, animal welfare or our sustainability standards.”
Goadby concluded: “It’ll be grown using products and techniques that are illegal in this country coming into the UK.
“And the public have said they do not want to see chlorinated chicken, they do not want to see GM produce, and they do not want to see hormone beef, but that is what’s going to happen.”
