Well! What a rally it was in Truro Town centre! Following the Labour ‘government’s’ attack on family owned businesses, the rally was called to support our already beleaguered Cornish and British Farmers. The atmosphere was one of calm but steely determination. Although it was reported that two hundred people took on Storm Burt and braced themselves against the pouring rain and gale force wind, there were in fact many more as people came to salute our the farmers and then, heads down, they set off to continue their Christmas shopping.
According to the NFU’s own analysis the Labour’s Inheritance Tax, targeting farmers, will affect 75% of farmers, not the 27% stated by the Party. Highlighting the devastating impact the tax could actually have on family farms. It wasn’t just the farmers who joined the rally but many support industry representatives were there to protest against, what appears to be nothing more than raising ‘tea money’, in the face of the government’s dire squandering of money on anything but the British People, perfectly illustrated by their most recent £536m in aid for overseas agriculture projects.
The support from car and bus drivers alike was almost total, with only one lady asking “was this going to go on all afternoon?”. Horns tooting in solidarity, protest signs in windows, massive smiles and enthusiastic waves of support.
The ‘soggy and squelchy’ crowd, ranged from many Reform UK members, organised and rallied by Louise Tibbets, providing reform Hi-vis - produced by Pete at Printbridge printing company, with the party wholeheartedly supporting our farmers’ fight, the critical campaign group ‘No Farmers No Food’, to pensioners, university students and young people, who are seeing the ‘light’.
As far as anyone was aware no Labour MPs supported the Cornish Farmers, nor any Conservative Party representatives, despite Kemi Badenoch's assertions that "we will reverse this!" at the London Rally on the 19th November.
The Truro Rally was a short, sharp protest but if the government does not listen where do the farmers and the British people go from here? With another four years of abject, and apparently, deliberate destruction of our economy, values and security at every level, what are our options?
We have to ask ourselves why are supermarkets buying cauliflowers from drought ridden Morocco? Should we be using carbon to import food products from all over the world, when we can grow them here? Do you think food security is important? If you have some great ideas, or want to become an activist, all your Reform UK Associations in every Constituency, would love to hear from you whether you are a member of ‘The People’s Party’ or not. There are Facebook pages for Camborne and Redruth, Newquay and St Austell, North Cornwall, South East Cornwall, St Ives and Isles of Scilly, Truro and Falmouth.
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