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The John Batchelor Show

#LondonCalling: Farmers Rebellion. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#LondonCalling:  Farmers Rebellion.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

1906 Waterford County 

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listening. Terms apply. I'm John Batchel and the 200,-pound tractors are gathered in London, along with protesters

0:40.8

and signs and colorful personalities, one of which is a man named Jeremy Clarkson, who's very well

0:47.6

known as a BBC presenter, but is now identified as a farmer.

0:52.2

And he speaks very well, he's hilarious, in fact, and said that he did not

0:56.6

appreciate the costs and the risk and the physical demand of farming until he owned a farm.

1:03.8

He emphasizes, it's cold. It's always cold. Harvest time, wintertime, it's always cold. And this lot

1:10.7

works hard. Everybody's making sacrifices

1:13.4

for the new budget from labor, but you've really squashed. He has many colorful ways. I'm skipping

1:19.0

of saying things. He's quite an outspoken character. And this is the farm protest of London,

1:24.9

going on right now. In fact, the reporting out of F.T.

1:28.7

is that a lot of muddy wellies are in Parliament. Joe, this is about Rachel Reeves and

1:34.9

labor and making it very difficult to pass on your farm to the next generation without having

1:42.8

to sell huge amounts of land to pay the tax. Reminds me of what happened to the next generation without having to sell huge amounts of land to pay the tax.

1:45.7

Reminds me of what happened to the great houses of what, the 19th century when it came into

1:50.6

the 20th. They all passed into the hands of the state because they couldn't afford the taxes.

1:56.8

Is this going to threaten labor in some fashion? Are they ready to bend? What is your measure?

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