The disastrous Labour Budget continues to unravel.
The weather is now turning colder, winter is setting in. How many elderly will die due to loss of Winter Fuel Payments?
Talking to small businesses they tell me they face a stark choice, cut hours, lay off staff, or close.
A Budget to help working people?
We are going to see farms decimated when farms pass from one generation to the next thanks to the imposition of Inheritance Tax (farms were previously exempt).
We need family farms not only as providers of food on our table but also as custodians of the countryside.
Keir Starmer refused to talk to farmers at the Welsh Labour Conference. He slunk out of the back door.
We live in an increasingly unstable world. The war in Ukraine showed what happens when we lose the supply chain. Where is the government policy on food security? Why are we covering agricultural land with solar panels.?
The flash flooding in Valencia, also wreaked havock in the hinterland, a major food growing region.
We need to rewild the countryside, protect and enhance natural carbon sinks, and invest in regenerative agriculture.
There was nothing in the disastrous Budget for the environment or agriculture.
Big Business already controls most of the food chain. Do we wish to see our family farms go the same way?
Ultra-processed food is now a bigger killer than smoking. It is a cause of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity. It is rewiring our brains.
The cost of ultra-processed food has now been calculated at £264 billion per year.
Why did the disastrous Labour Budget not have a tax on ultra-processed food?
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