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Labour’s betrayal of our farming communities mustn’t come as a shock. We knew they didn’t care about our rural communities when their manifesto contained simply 87 references to farming. True to kind, Slippery Starmer and his trusty sidekick Robotic Reeves have damaged an enormous election promise and have launched an assault on centuries of agricultural heritage and punishing people who put meals on our tables.

Farmers are reeling at what represents a elementary assault on their livelihoods. By imposing a merciless loss of life tax on farmers by reforming Agricultural Property Relief (APR), the Chancellor’s household farm tax will imply hundreds of farmers will probably be pressured to promote their land slightly than go it on to the following technology.

This is about Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner getting their manner and now our heroic farmers must promote their land simply to pay the tax invoice whereas Labour concrete over our treasured greenbelt.

It additionally means there will probably be fewer farmers working the land and placing meals on our desk. Express readers know the way harmful that is. It will put huge strain on our meals safety and push up the worth of meals on the cabinets.

The conflict in Ukraine has underlined the significance of meals safety. We noticed the worth of meals within the supermarkets rise after Putin’s invasion which put added pressures on these on the bottom incomes. Let me be clear, this disastrous coverage makes Britain weaker and makes Putin and Xi Jin Ping stronger.

The Chancellor argues that these crippling tax raids had been essential to fund our public companies, however how can she not class farmers as public servants?

We know many farms are nearing breaking level. Margins have tightened, inflation has soared and excessive climate has already pressured farmers to tighten their belts. The Budget might effectively result in the top of the household farm altogether.

This stunning betrayal of our farmers is a mission that Labour don’t perceive rural communities and their function in our society.

Farming isn’t the protect of the landed courses like Labour would possibly assume it’s. Our farmers usually function on margins of simply 1 or 2 per cent and don’t have any manner of footing the invoice for this Government’s reckless spending spree. What Rachel Reeves has failed to know is that farmers simply don’t have enormous quantities of money to pay the taxman. Many are simply surviving.

This Government has proven it’s merciless and callous; greater than keen to sacrifice pensioners or farmers to appease its commerce union paymasters’ Marxist imaginative and prescient for Britain. They have demonstrated that they don’t perceive, or worse, admire rural communities.

Labour don’t realise that farming is a lifestyle that drives our economic system, protects the meals on our desk and brings native communities collectively. This sickening conflict on our farmers and rural communities is a harrowing instance of issues to return in Starmer’s socialist Britain.

Saqib Bhatti is MP for Meriden and Solihull East