English farmers reconsider voting Tory over ‘botched’ Brexit

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1. we asked 2 farmers, a man and his wife, so we could put an S on the end.

2. Hahaha omg this is like a preplanned r/LeopardsAteMyFace and I am here for it.

3. You can have a relatively successful post Brexit future if you embrace free trade but that means that most British farming is uncompetitive or you can rejoin the single market. I don’t see how this half way house will ever work. All the disadvantages none of the advantages.

4. Let me guess : they plan on voting Reform instead for even more of the same shit (but worse)?

5. Seems like the only ones round my way that don’t have vote Tory signs have vote Reform signs….

6. It’s always about subsidies for farmers. Farming has to change. It is the biggest environmental polluter in many respects. A transition away from the CAP style of funding is an opportunity for evolving farming practices and farmers need to get on board with this. Luckily lots of farmers are beginning to see the benefits of a more environmentally beneficial practices and regenerative farming, for example, can also pay dividends in increased production without the environmental cost.

7. “I voted to cut myself off from my customer base without having a financially viable alternative and now my entire industry is failing”

8. I don’t like the stereotype of farmers being a bit stupid but if they voted tory then they’re doing said stereotype no favours at all.

9. Before we all jump on the hate the farmers bandwagon over Brexit.

   Do we even know how many farmers voted for Brexit?

   I don’t but I do know that it’s a common misconception that Jeremy Clarkson voted leave while he’s been pro EU for a long time & I also know a lot of farms that used EU labourers.

   I’m sure some did but I’ve not seen any numbers.

10. A few comments in here saying they deserve what’s coming to them.

    Sure, maybe. Somewhat infuriatingly the exact people who 100% DO deserve what is coming to them have sailed off into the fucking sunset with bags loads of cash.

    Not that I want to hear their names daily but has anyone heard from Gove, Haystack and The Victorian Pencil recently?

    They should ALL be in prison for lying the way they did!

11. Of all people farmers should know: you reap what you sow.

12. It’s not all farmers blah blah be careful what you wish on others blah Clarkson didn’t vote Leave blah blah bollocks.

    If you consistently make a choice to vote against the common good, AND YOUR OWN BLOODY SELF INTEREST then what exactly do they expect?!!

13. It’s not a “botched Brexit”, it’s just “Brexit”. This is what Brexit is.

14. In comes the students, city dwellers and, well, redditors to tell those farmers how stupid they are

15. I’ve got to say, farmers are some of the dumbest easily triggered people I’ve ever met.

16. Them: “Brexit went perfectly to plan”

    Also them: “Why can’t I afford groceries anymore?”

17. You mean Brexit resulted in exactly what we said it would….

    I’m shocked, SHOCKED.

    Funny thing is, these farmers are switching to reform, not the lib dems or labour, so they are only going to get screwed worse.

    Honestly I’m starting to doubt the intelligence of our nations farmers.

18. “Reconsider voting Tory over botched Brexit.”
    In other words, they’d vote for another party – probably Reform – in order to do Brexit properly.

    Ergo, these dense wasters actually haven’t learned a thing. Plenty of sympathy for the knock-on effect on the British economy and the British citizens who need to be fed, but sympathy for the farmers themselves? Nah. Screw that.

19. Is botched the right word? When it’s used in conjunction with builders or doctors it’s sort of implied that there was a right way to do it that would have worked.

    As JFK said, you can’t code your way out of a shit spec.

20. The turkeys that voted for Christmas have changed their minds?

21. Ah yes. Not “Brexit was self-evidently a stupid and self-defeating idea that was always going to fuck up the UK economy and many of its industries, as every qualified expert told you, loudly, before the vote, and which you smugly ignored”.

    No, it’s actually just that “Brexit wasn’t dun right”. 🙄

22. Looking forward to all the ‘OOPS! WE FUCKED UP!’ signs in the corner of the field by the road.

23. Brexit wasnt “botched” it happened the way the brexiteers were warned would happen but we were told it was “project fear”

    It was ALWAYS going to be a disaster.

24. Was up the peaks last week, saw some reform posters at the side of the roads, imagine they are just switching over the former brexiters that is.

    All out of Fs for them at this point.

25. Hating on farmers becuase they took a decision base on missinformation and lies wont help then neither the country, I bet if were another elections to get back to UE it will won by much far than the 2% to leave, but now if Uk wanted by any change to go back will have to pay a big toll and agreed all the rules they were avoiding before

26. ‘Botched’? There was no version of events where it went well outside of the fantasies of the economically illiterate or the daydreams of the already wealthy but tax averse.

27. “No you were meant to shoot my left foot, *not* my right foot, if you shoot my left foot then I’m sure i would win the men’s 100m”

28. There is no such thing as a non-botched Brexit because it was always an inherently shit idea

29. Ironic that they got most screwed by Brexit, moreso than the so-called urban elites.

30. How’s it botched?

    you give a middle finger to the bloc, the bloc’s gonna give it right back.

    * surprised pikachu meme *

31. I’m surprised how hostile this sub is towards farmers

32. You always get what you vote for. Even if your vote doesn’t count. We are all in it together even if people unknowingly spite themselves. Always thus.

33. Every farmer round my way had LEAVE signs int the fields and get brexit done stickers supporting Boris on tractors. Fuck them. They voted for it, enjoy the fallout.

34. Do people see Labour as the saviour or just the lesser of two evils?

35. As much as I loathe to give sympathy to the Tories, (and it’s very little cos they caused this.) but the only way to make Brexit less than an absolute clusterfuck would have been to stay in the single market. Something Farage as his tosspots would not have accepted.

36. I live in South Lincolnshire, I can report plenty of farms with Tory bill boards.

    I believe the one who owns a big farm shop, has a Lib Dem one. However that farm shop had some EU funding.