>Boris Johnson’s hopes of surviving as prime minister have been dealt a serious blow after farmers and environmentalists condemned his government’s post-Brexit food strategy as a disaster for people in the countryside – with less than two weeks to go before a key rural byelection.
>In an interview with the Observer, the president of the National Farmers Union, Minette Batters, said ambitious proposals to help farmers increase food production, first put forward last year by the government’s food tsar, Henry Dimbleby, had been “stripped to the bone” in a new policy document, and meant farmers would not be able to produce affordable food.
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>Batters said she had told the PM on Friday that farmers – including those in the West Country seat of Tiverton and Honiton, where a crucial byelection will be held on 23 June – were furious with post-Brexit policies that they believed would make them poorer and leave them unable to compete with foreign producers. …
It’s strange how their massive bait and switch isn’t paying off.
This is obviously false information! /s
Conservative governments, as we all know, do not do strategy, which entails hard work and attention to details, such as reality. That is not the responsibility of those who believe they were born to lead.
In the EU Ref the general rule of thumb for rural Vs urban was that (despite NFU warnings) rural was Leave, and urban Remain. You can see it on [the maps](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36616028).
Given this is what rural England and Wales voted for, why can’t they just get over the fact that they won?
What fury? Nothing has happened
Waaaaait.
Didn’t all the farmers vote for brexit?
Oh well, their own fault, fuck ’em
BREXIT 2: RURAL FURY
In cinemas this summer
I mean, the strategy has pretty much always been “good luck, lol”
> pressure to prioritise the environment over food production, when the country needed to become more self-sufficient in food.
Shortsighted as usual. Farmers need to accept that the current way of producing food isn’t sustainable and is destroying our nature. We can’t simply continue propping them up forever just because they’d be out of a job otherwise. Brexit or not.
We could actually be self sustaining and environmentally friendly, but for that they’ll have to move away from killing animals to growing various plants for human consumption and things like rewilding (with the help from the government obviously).
You have to admire the audacity of wanting to grow more fruit and veg in UK.
….. Shame there’s nobody willing to pick it.
All this winning.
Leave supporters were all so quick defending their action quoting made up bs, now they aren’t even try to defend their own stupidity. If you have children and voted leave good job on ruining their future hope you lot are proud.
Tories losing rural constitutencies would outright kill the party.
I mean imagine them doing such a terrible job that politicians like Jacob Rees-Mogg lose their seats.
They won. They should get over it.
I suppose at the referendum time when the Leavers promised that EU subsidies would be replaced, the level of lying incompetence of the current govt hadn’t yet been exposed. But anyone who actually independently thought about how this was going to be implemented isn’t surprised
Boris Johnson faces rural fury! Who makes these nonsense statements they love the prat in the rural world they can not spell Starmer or socialist I the country.
That’s what you get when you vote Tory. Dont believe their lies.
Boris Johnson faces rural fury but he thought they said Furry so nothing will come of it.
Rural areas, which voted overwhelmingly for brexit, can shut the fuck up and eat their brexit.
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>Boris Johnson’s hopes of surviving as prime minister have been dealt a serious blow after farmers and environmentalists condemned his government’s post-Brexit food strategy as a disaster for people in the countryside – with less than two weeks to go before a key rural byelection.
>In an interview with the Observer, the president of the National Farmers Union, Minette Batters, said ambitious proposals to help farmers increase food production, first put forward last year by the government’s food tsar, Henry Dimbleby, had been “stripped to the bone” in a new policy document, and meant farmers would not be able to produce affordable food.
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>Batters said she had told the PM on Friday that farmers – including those in the West Country seat of Tiverton and Honiton, where a crucial byelection will be held on 23 June – were furious with post-Brexit policies that they believed would make them poorer and leave them unable to compete with foreign producers. …
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If you want more indepth:
>Sunday Times: [Boris Johnson turns his back on green agenda with rewilding rethink](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-turns-his-back-on-green-agenda-with-rewilding-rethink-p2q8hhbgs) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/fdpCu))
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>Conservation groups last night described the U-turn as a “massive betrayal”. Others suggested a link to the Tiverton and Honiton by-election, due to be held in rural Devon on June 23
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>RTÉ: [Unpopular Boris Johnson’s room to manoeuvre now limited](https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2022/0612/1304171-boris-johnson-no-confidence/)
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>Many are wondering why the rebels did not hold off until after expected by-election losses in Yorkshire and Devon to push their challenge
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>The Telegraph: [Inside the Lib Dem plot to conquer the Tory South](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/06/12/inside-lib-dem-plot-conquer-tory-south/) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/fMMt4))
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>Liberals are poised to overturn another huge Tory majority – is the Blue Wall crumbling?
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>Finincial Timess: [Wakefield’s ‘red wall’ voters turn their back on Boris Johnson](https://www.ft.com/content/f2ee4e82-2969-45e6-8c0e-a47b6bf03bc3) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/5wpDR))
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>By-election poses a crucial test for whether Labour can win back its former heartlands
It’s strange how their massive bait and switch isn’t paying off.
This is obviously false information! /s
Conservative governments, as we all know, do not do strategy, which entails hard work and attention to details, such as reality. That is not the responsibility of those who believe they were born to lead.
In the EU Ref the general rule of thumb for rural Vs urban was that (despite NFU warnings) rural was Leave, and urban Remain. You can see it on [the maps](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36616028).
Given this is what rural England and Wales voted for, why can’t they just get over the fact that they won?
What fury? Nothing has happened
Waaaaait.
Didn’t all the farmers vote for brexit?
Oh well, their own fault, fuck ’em
BREXIT 2: RURAL FURY
In cinemas this summer
I mean, the strategy has pretty much always been “good luck, lol”
> pressure to prioritise the environment over food production, when the country needed to become more self-sufficient in food.
Shortsighted as usual. Farmers need to accept that the current way of producing food isn’t sustainable and is destroying our nature. We can’t simply continue propping them up forever just because they’d be out of a job otherwise. Brexit or not.
We could actually be self sustaining and environmentally friendly, but for that they’ll have to move away from killing animals to growing various plants for human consumption and things like rewilding (with the help from the government obviously).
You have to admire the audacity of wanting to grow more fruit and veg in UK.
….. Shame there’s nobody willing to pick it.
All this winning.
Leave supporters were all so quick defending their action quoting made up bs, now they aren’t even try to defend their own stupidity. If you have children and voted leave good job on ruining their future hope you lot are proud.
Tories losing rural constitutencies would outright kill the party.
I mean imagine them doing such a terrible job that politicians like Jacob Rees-Mogg lose their seats.
They won. They should get over it.
I suppose at the referendum time when the Leavers promised that EU subsidies would be replaced, the level of lying incompetence of the current govt hadn’t yet been exposed. But anyone who actually independently thought about how this was going to be implemented isn’t surprised
Boris Johnson faces rural fury! Who makes these nonsense statements they love the prat in the rural world they can not spell Starmer or socialist I the country.
That’s what you get when you vote Tory. Dont believe their lies.
Boris Johnson faces rural fury but he thought they said Furry so nothing will come of it.
Rural areas, which voted overwhelmingly for brexit, can shut the fuck up and eat their brexit.