
First off, Rachel Reeves — fix the bleeding budget. We don’t do everything well here, but our family farms are something to be proud of. Shall we not set the hounds on them?
With that out the way, photographs have been streaming in from today’s massive farmers rally, where thousands have left their piglets home and gathered to protest Labour’s so-called “tractor tax”. And what a green-tweeded sight for sore urban eyes it was, as they congregated in the rain, sleet and snow (don’t feel too bad, they’re more than comfortable in adverse conditions) and chanted “no farmers, no food!”