Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Are food shortages the farmers' secret weapon? | The Story" video.

  1. Oh the old myth that farmers voted for Brexit. If you actually look into it, you'll see that they were at worst, 50/50. Farmers Weekly a couple of weeks before the referendum polled farmers at something like 40% leave.
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  2. I went to the rally wearing a shirt that said "St-uck F-armer". Get it?
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  3. Frankly that's not in the nature of a farmer. I am one, I know.
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  4. It's not the farmers' fault the pensioners have no heat. It's the government. And it will also be the government's fault when they have no food.
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  5. Just goes to show you have no understanding of how farming actually works. You might as well be telling us what you know about some alien planet.
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  6. Except that is a myth that's been spread around and people just ignorantly parrot. The only data source of how anyone voted on the EU is by polls and Farmer's Weekly polled farmers a couple of weeks before the referendum to find that about 30-40% of farmers intended to vote leave.
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  7. Well one difference is that the first guy has had his whole life to anticipate this. The farmer on the other hand has just had this dumped on his lap a couple of weeks ago, after the Labour party explicitly promised they would not do so. And as @StuB-y4o said, hardly any viable farm is as little as 1.1 mil. My family farm is about 300 acres, a fairly modest size. That's worth £3 mil before you factor in any buildings, machinery, animals etc. So yeah... we'll have to find at least £600k and my parents are elderly - we have perhaps a decade to save up for it. On an annual salary that you would expect the manager of a McDonalds branch to be earning.
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  8.  @flickthenick  My family own and run our farm. The 21 grand figure is probably about right. We live a pretty frugal life. We all drive old 4x4's (mine is 20 years old). We holiday one week per year in Cornwall, in November because of seasonal work obligations. I work as a decorator as well as being a farm hand and by the hour that job brings me much more income than farming. And your 3 million allowance figure is just wrong. The gov.uk website clearly outlines that the allowance is up to 1 million. The average farm in the UK is twice or 3 times that value for the land alone.
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  9. It's not a case of want. We may not be able to import food one day the way things are going. And we'll be up the creek if we have allowed our internal food production capacity to atrophy.
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  10. It's being sent to Brazil to help them build low carbon farming.
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  11. The money is beside the point. My family's farm is likely worth around £3 million. But we don't get to realise any of that value other than what we can grow on it. Farmers go out in all weathers at all hours and do mucky, dusty, cold, thankless work. They could easily sell up and retire to a life of frivolity... but they don't. It has crossed my mind, while I have been on my knees pushing a sheep's guts back into her backside because she has prolapsed, that I'd rather be cruising around in a Lambo. But we do our job not for money, but for the satisfaction of producing such a vital resource for the nation and of continuing a tradition that's been in our family for generations.
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  12. Ugh... I don't know about that. I appreciate his support but I don't think he's God or anything.
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  13. He likely bought it on purpose. Kaleb would have told him immediately that tractor was far too big for what he needed.
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  14.  @karlyoung6289  Except there was the minor issue of two world wars, during which farmers became like royalty, so vital were they to the literal survival of the nation. What makes you think this can't happen again?
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  15.  @stevennisbet8328  They are not the same as everyone else. They put food in your mouth, pleb.
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  16.  @stevennisbet8328  The hierarchy of needs. Really basic economics and sociology.
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