At my mum’s. Drove past a farmer’s field by the M6 - trailer with a huge REFORM poster on it! Honestly, have these farmers got a death wish, or what? They supported Brexit, lost all their EU subs, and now they want cheap meat imports and chlorinated chicken! - ThreadSky

scouselakes.bsky.social • 3 days ago

At my mum’s. Drove past a farmer’s field by the M6 - trailer with a huge REFORM poster on it!

Honestly, have these farmers got a death wish, or what?

They supported Brexit, lost all their EU subs, and now they want cheap meat imports and chlorinated chicken!

Comments

bandwagonkit.bsky.social•2 days ago

Our local farming community is very insular & most of their life is taken up with the act of farming. It’s all too easy for the unscrupulous to feed them lies, and Reform’s obsession with blaming the “other” for problems, seems plausible when all their problems come from the other side of the hedge.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•2 days ago

🥴

katreff.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Farmers get what they deserve the problem is we then get what we don’t deserve!

davidabowden.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some agricultural land is owned by tax averse investors.

captainsidecar.bsky.social•3 days ago

I went to school with farmers' kids, who will now, presumably, be farmers. It doesn't exactly surprise me.

snarkymimi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Makes me wonder as well!

billheywood.bsky.social•3 days ago

"We own all the land, we're so hard done by" 😭

stevemc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Be interesting to know where this was because the daft Reform crew could easily split the right wing vote there taking enough Tory votes to let a centrist or left party in. Hoping that happens

scouselakes.bsky.social•3 days ago

Somewhere south of Preston, I think. Will take more notice on the way home.

charlottedolman.bsky.social•2 days ago

They seem to be taking a lot of Labour's votes where I am (East Yorkshire). It's worrying 😟

worcesteryokel.bsky.social•3 days ago

They aren’t known for their intellectual prowess.

oscarfranklin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Might not be the farmer - a lot of them rent out the advert space.

scouselakes.bsky.social•3 days ago

If it was my field I would refuse to rent it for a Reform poster!

oscarfranklin.bsky.social•3 days ago

They might not even know. I've no axe to grind on behalf of farmers and I loathe Reform too but honestly they might not know.

markreckons.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fools who deserve everything they get

sheepiefarm.bsky.social•3 days ago

The farming press have been pushing the idea that they should be voting reform.

It's like American farmers believing FOX news telling them to vote for Trump 🙄

andyerak.bsky.social•2 days ago

Another one been supping the sheep dip🤪

canadiancreed.bsky.social•2 days ago

There seems to be a large minority that thinks that they'll rule the world once they burn it to ash, not realizing that they'll be the ash

yeovilyokel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Reform may have paid handsomely for such a prime location, and they have the cash to do it - but personally I wouldn’t stoop so low for any amount of money. I put up LD posters on my land, and I do it gladly for free 😇

nickbaird.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe someone who bought the farmland as an inheritance tax dodge?

theveinwhisperer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I saw them dotted around fields in North Devon weeks after the GE last year.
Perhaps it's not so much politics, rather it's bigoted beliefs that make them support these clowns?