Support For Farmers

[warey4life]

There was an opposition day debate in the house of commons this week focused on policy and financial support for British farmers.

The motion calls on the Government to take three immediate corrective steps:

Guarantee SFI Funding: Provide long-term funding guarantees to all eligible applicants who were locked out of the 22 September portal.

Scrap the Family Farm Tax: Fully reverse the damaging changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) to safeguard succession and capital investment on family farms.

Commit an additional £1 Billion Annually to ELMs: Provide an additional £1 billion per year to properly fund Environmental Land Management schemes, matching domestic demand and the true costs of environmental stewardship.


53 Libdems, 2 independents, 1 DUP and Jeremy Corbyn vote for.

279 Labour MPs voted against

The Conservatives, Reform and the Greens were all absent.

 

[danfre]

Cannot say I understand the full implementations of the motions.
Disgusting that MPs should stay away for the vote
I believe that farmers should get more support from the government and the general public should appreciate the work they do.
All to often now Field's are being sold off for industrial or housing.
We need this land for food.
Never seen a housing estate or industrial units being sold off for farming

 

[Dec27]

The Liberal Democrats did put forward the three proposals, and Labour voted against the motion. However, Reform UK weren’t all absent. Eight Reform MPs, including Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Lee Anderson, voted in favour. SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs also supported it.


It’s also worth remembering that voting against an opposition motion isn’t necessarily the same as voting against all support for farmers.


There are legitimate questions about the Government’s handling of farming payments and inheritance tax, but surely we should get the voting facts right before drawing conclusions.

 

[Dec27]

Seems the OP might be a tad biased… I thought you sat in the middle….

 

[aveatry]

Seems the OP might be a tad biased… I thought you sat in the middle….

"tad"