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Labour’s foolish war on farmers will clobber Brits with inflated food prices – Starmer must swallow his pride
Farmers will today descend on London, fronted by our Jeremy Clarkson — a man vastly more popular than Keir Starmer
Ooh arrrmy
LABOUR’S foolish war on our farmers is sure to backfire, clobbering Sun readers with pricier shopping bills.
We doubt Treasury officials considered higher inflation for a moment as they conjured up that cruel Budget change to family farms’ inheritance tax.
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But those farms will have to hike prices to pay it — if they survive it at all.
All to raise a sum negligible on a national scale.
One ex-Blair aide raged on TV that Labour should “do to farmers what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners”.
That really is how class-war morons think.
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Family farms help feed Britain, on often tiny profit margins.
The Government cannot surely want yet more imports — or corporate mega-farms to swallow smaller ones it has bankrupted.
It is misjudging the public.
Farmers will today descend on London, fronted by our Jeremy Clarkson — a man vastly more popular than Keir Starmer.
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Swallow your pride, PM.
Look at how you can support farmers, not drive them away.
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Fatal timidity
IF Ukraine is finally engulfed by Russia, the West will only have itself to blame.
There are no timid restraints on Kremlin firepower.
It massacres and destroys with impunity.
It has even deployed thousands of North Korean troops.
Yet America still refuses to allow British long-range missiles, which need US guidance, to take the war deep into Russia and give Russians a taste of the carnage their dictator triggered.
Kremlin threats of World War III seem enough to intimidate doddering Joe Biden.
He will only allow US missiles to be fired in Russia’s Kursk region.
So President Zelensky is still defending himself with one hand tied behind him.
Repeated assurances of UK loyalty to Ukraine will mean nothing if America allows it to be over-run.
Use your heads
WITHOUT us picking a side over assisted dying, one does seem to have thought harder than the other.
Those supporting this huge law change are utterly convinced of their moral superiority.
Tory MP Kit Malthouse says he will do so “in the name of love”, like millions “on the side of compassion and humanity”.
That is just too simplistic.
Does it not trouble him that so many liberal-minded MPs are against it, including in Labour’s Cabinet, owing to the pitfalls and practical difficulties other nations have experienced?
The Bill’s author, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, is now complaining about politicians rowing over it — even though they have to vote on it.
She seems to want emotion to trump argument.
This legislation and its timetable look rushed.
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Such a complex decision needs far more sober and measured scrutiny.
Not one side telling the other to shut up
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