Why are farmers storming Westminster?
The News Agents
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4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Later in this episode we talk to Patrick Radden Keefe, author of global bestseller 'Empire of Pain'. His new Disney+ drama 'Say Nothing' tells the story of murder and memory during The Troubles in 1970's Northern Ireland, and solves one of that time's most egregious crimes.
But we start on the streets of Whitehall with the farmers storming Westminster, and their rallying cry - "Starmer Farmer Harmer". How has the new government got on their wrong side so quickly? How damaging will the policies in the budget REALLY be for farmers? And will the Chancellor back down?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | Whitehall doesn't feel like it normally feels right now. |
| 0:19.1 | Per square metre, there are far more Wellington boots, tweed |
| 0:24.4 | jackets, wax cotton and pink caps than you would ever find and a lot of angry people as well. |
| 0:32.9 | They're calling it and marching under the slogan, Starma, the Farmer, Harmer. |
| 0:40.0 | This is all about the changes announced in the budget by Rachel Reeves, |
| 0:44.4 | changes to the way that farms and farming estates are subject to inheritance tax. |
| 0:50.5 | On paper, it shouldn't affect many people at all, |
| 0:53.4 | yet Whitehall is absolutely packed and people are furious. |
| 0:59.0 | On today's show, we're going to be asking, is this really a peasant's revolt or a revenge of the landowners? |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:11.5 | It's John. The news agents. |
| 1:12.7 | It's John. |
| 1:13.3 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:17.7 | And a little bit later on, we're going to be hearing from Emily, who's talking to one of America's preeminent writers of the moment. |
| 1:21.4 | Yes, but first, as we were saying, we are on Whitehall, and we are surrounded by farmers. |
| 1:26.8 | Very angry farmer, something that doesn't happen |
| 1:28.3 | to us every day, being city boys that we are, living in North and South London, respectively, |
| 1:32.3 | but we are here and they are really furious and they are the latest interest group, I suppose, |
| 1:37.3 | you can put it that way, who are angry by some of Rachel Reeves' proposals that she announced |
| 1:41.6 | in the budget. And just specifically, just quickly to explain what this is all about, because we don't have many farmers in this country, really, in the grand |
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