Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This.
I’m so tired of people on social media dismissing me (who has lived in the countryside my entire life) as a clueless citydweller whenever I speak about:
This farmland IHT debate
Foxhunting
Using pesticides that don’t mass-kill bees and other critical insects
People having a right to roam/being against landowners illegally blocking off public footpaths
The amount of land multimillionaires purposely keep barren just so they can go grouse-shooting
There’s this myth pushed predominantly by right wingers that everybody who doesn’t live in a highly urbanised area agrees with farmers on everything.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They like to pretend that all farmers are gentlemen who wander around in tweed jackets and essentially live in the 1930s. Except I don’t think that was true even in the 1930s.