British farmers want basic income to cope with post-Brexit struggles

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1. They will go bankrupt and be bought for a song and consolidated in giants industrial farms.

   That’s the plan most of them voted for, unknowingly maybe.

   Brexit means Brexit.

2. Serves them right for voting for brexit. Now that they got what they want let them struggle.

   Brexit led to a lot of jobs axed in research. That was sad. This is not.

3. This is worth a read if you want more information on farmers and Brexit: [Challenging the myth that farmers voted for Brexit (and therefore deserve what’s coming to them…)](https://www.westcountryvoices.com/challenging-the-myth-that-farmers-voted-for-brexit-and-therefore-deserve-whats-coming-to-them/)

4. Well I’m in the NHS and all my wages goes on bills and food.

   The basic salary can’t afford shit.

5. Interesting to see that somehow everyone voted against Brexit. But somehow enough voted for it.

6. And I want my freedom of movement back. Shouldn’t have voted Leave, should you, Mr Farmer?

7. You’d think that farmers of all people would know that you reap what you sow 🤣

8. If you can’t figure out a way of making a living then sell your land and quit.

   The market will find a way of filling the gap you leave behind.

   That’s the world the rest of us have to live in.

9. I can support this. Covid and the war in Ukraine had really shown that we need to retain key industries for national security.

10. We could have some sort of common policy for agriculture….

11. The people voted to destroy the British farming industry. That’s democracy, suck it up. Maybe they can retrain in cyber?

12. You mean like an Agriculture policy to ensure that they have a stable income when times are tough?

    But Farmers voted to leave such a policy and embrace the freedumb and sovereignty of the unelected head of state.

    While farmers may struggle, go bankrupt and lose their farms, it is a sacrifice that we are willing to make. 

    /s   

13. Running down the farming sector is a Brexit benefit though, no? After all it’s exactly what brexiteer economist Minford said would happen, and here we are, all going as intended. What’s left of manufacturing is next.

14. There’s a lot of “reap what you sow” sentiment floating around this comment section for farmers, even though everyone is basically in agreement that the entire Leave campaign was a very elaborate, cruel lie designed to appeal to the very vulnerable of society. Considering farmers play such a pivotal role in everyone’s lives (whether you want to accept it or not), I really have no idea where all this vitriol stems from for farmers.

    I think it’s also worth noting that the group “farmers” is a very small group too. I doubt the majority of them voting Remain would change anything.

15. https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/stop-the-dumping-how-eu-agricultural-subsidies-are-damaging-livelihoods-in-the-114605/

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/315698/farm-business-income-from-farming-in-the-united-kingdom/

    The guardian spewing shit again I see.

16. And yet they were told that Brexit would help British farmers.

17. I dont understand. The farmers won. They got brexit. We get it.

18. For as long as I’ve been alive farming has supposedly ‘been on its knees’. We live in a capitalist society, there’s not meant to be any easy way to make money, markets are efficient and industry needs to be efficient to survive. Many sectors feel exactly the same and certainly don’t expect any hand outs

19. LOL, No.

    Vote Tory, get Tory.

    No special treatment for their pet clowns.

20. Brexit, the gift that just keeps on giving. The oven ready deal thoroughly baked the UK.