Multi Millionaires Complaining Again

Yawn.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk./money/pensions/private-pensions/gold-plated-nhs-pensions-cost-taxpayers-1bn-month/
We've got a lot of problems. Forcing farmers to break farms up is only the tip of the ice.

How do you solve this problem?

This!

Yeah agree OP. Let’s slam them with a massive tax, force them to sell the land, and we can watch it be bought by other multi millionaires for unethical property developing. We can then enjoy a heightened flood risk, food instability, and contribute to climate change as import chlorinated chicken from the States in a bid to plug the gap.

The issue for me is more about the long term food security of our country, and I don’t think the government have got this one right.

Are you talking about farmers?! I imagine those same farmers who you expect to produce you top level meat or milk or eggs etc for a pittance?!

The only way that the farmers can maintain prices without going bust is to do things in bulk. That way they can buy things like fertiliser or feed at lower cost per unit and get you those low level prices you love. They aren’t cash rich. Everything is put into the farm.

So let’s say a farm with 500 acres (sounds like a lot) finds it has to sell 100 acres to satisfy that horrible tax, all it does is reduce margins unless prices rise. The problem with that is that then because prices were originally low but demand won’t change inflation rises. Plus there will be an increased level of insecurity as people like you complain which drives public policy towards making decisions that favour overseas supplies which puts further pressure on the supply chain.

Most of our farmers don’t take a wage themselves or certainly not one that many would recognise on here considering the hours they work. A thread I was just reading where someone wanted to earn £100k but not sacrifice family time in the evenings, time off for school holidays or spend time travelling for work. Would like to see them out in the fields all hours of the day or night to ensure animals are safe, that the harvest is brought in or anything else.

Glad to say around our way we are 100% behind our farmers. We only buy meat from them and everything else. If that means a better life for them that’s marvellous. It doesn’t mind. The reality is it just means they keep our food security going. They know the true meaning of commitment for the greater good.

At least draconian protest laws aren't used on them, so that's one less thing to complain about around the Aga.