Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes

FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This.

  I’m so tired of people on social media dismissing me (who has lived in the countryside my entire life) as a clueless citydweller whenever I speak about:

  • This farmland IHT debate

  • Foxhunting

  • Using pesticides that don’t mass-kill bees and other critical insects

  • People having a right to roam/being against landowners illegally blocking off public footpaths

  • The amount of land multimillionaires purposely keep barren just so they can go grouse-shooting

  There’s this myth pushed predominantly by right wingers that everybody who doesn’t live in a highly urbanised area agrees with farmers on everything.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They like to pretend that all farmers are gentlemen who wander around in tweed jackets and essentially live in the 1930s. Except I don’t think that was true even in the 1930s.

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