Farmers to rally across country ahead of local elections

The event, organised by the campaigning group Farmers to Action, will be held tomorrow, 30th April. 

The rally will run through Northampton, making its way through Wellingborough towards the predominantly Labour-based Kettering Council Offices. 

Farmer Philip Weston, organiser for Farmers to Action, said: “As always, this is far more than just about IHT. 

“A lot of the decision-making regarding the updated compulsory purchase order regulations will now be made at the local level to simplify the process, so it’d be beneficial to come to the local elections to have as few Labour councillors heading up their political parties outrageous plans for the countryside. 

“It’s truly staggering that everyone is aware that the house building requirements set out by Angela Rayner are impossible, and yet they will no doubt do a lot of damage to the countryside trying to meet their targets in the meantime. 

“And if it isn’t houses, it’s being destroyed by the green agenda via Ed Milliband. Only he can stipulate the requirement for solar panels in one statement and then counteract it by initiating an investment of £50m plus for solar dimming? 

“But aside from farming, they have done so much damage to small businesses, council tax rises, hitting our elderly, our military – the list goes on. 

“Hopefully planting a fresh seed in everyone’s minds the day before the elections will be enough to just make the public vote against labour, and their ridiculous campaign against its farmers and it population as a whole.” 

‘We’ll take the news to them’

Another farming protest is set to take place tomorrow in Southampton. The demonstration, also organised by Farmers To Action, will see about 30 tractors parked outside the BBC South recording studios in Southampton tomorrow, 30th April, at 12pm. 

A spokesperson for Farmers To Action said: “We in Hampshire obviously haven’t got any local elections, so we decided to visit the BBC South studios to see why the BBC won’t put current farming issues in their news broadcasts. 

“They won’t put us on the news, so we’ll take the news to them.”

Another farming protest is happening today in London. The ‘Food and Farming in a Time of War: Securing Britain’s Future’ demonstration, organised by Save British Farming, takes off this afternoon at Whitehall Place.

The protesters plan to use their street action as a “reminder of wartime food insecurity”.

The demonstration will showcase machinery that kept Britain fed during the war — a tribute to the resilience of British farmers.

Farmers had recently been invited to join food system workers, migrant farmworkers, hospitality workers, consumers, and food justice activists to march in London under the banner ‘Food In Our Hands’, which took place last Saturday, 26th April.

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