EU farming subsidies haven't been replaced like-for-like post-Brexit as promised by Leavers. And British farmers are facing a 50% cut as a result. www.ft.com/content/c3d1...

UK farmers forced to cut food production to stay viable, warns NFU

Terrible harvest and falling subsidies force businesses to embrace greener alternatives, says Tom Bradshaw

What a surprise.

Any thoughts @janethughes.bsky.social ?

Instead, the previous government offered farmers redundancy payments.

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Their promises, like the referendum itself, were only advisory?!

Brexit broke Britain 🇪🇺

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Surely if your business can’t survive without subsidies then mebbe it’s time to move on. What other self employed businesses get the handouts farmers get? 🤷‍♀️

Is he implying that having lots of birds and bees is bad?

Farmers voted to Leave because they didn’t like EU legislation and were told they’d be free of that once out of the EU. If I were any of the groups in the UK who voted to remain (young people, musicians, Scottish or NI) I’d be telling farmers, sorry you got your way, back of the queue please.