Save British Farming 🇬🇧 @SaveBritishFood

🧵 @JeremyClarkson is right ✅ He’s sounding the alarm in Sunday Times: You can’t cap bread prices if you’ve got no bread. Farmers are stopping planting bc it doesn’t pay. Production is contracting. Food prices are soaring. As Clarkson confirms, input costs (fertiliser, energy, red diesel) are rocketing while policy actively discourages domestic production. More fields left unplanted and greater reliance on imports. The government has no plan. As I’ve been warning for years, Britain’s food crisis is only set to significantly worsen

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Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF

2 weeks ago

This week the EU has taken concrete action: first suspending customs duties on key nitrogen fertilisers (urea, ammonia) for one year, then launching a full Fertiliser Action Plan to support farmers, reinforce domestic production, and reduce vulnerability to shocks like the Hormuz

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🔴 WATCH: Neil Kinnock on his fiery row with Rupert Murdoch: “I said, ‘What a coincidence that was.’ He said, ‘Why is it a coincidence?’ I said, ‘Because you’re the biggest menace to liberty on this bit of the planet today.’” Classic Kinnock, straight talk about freedom, power, and press barons. Clip from our exclusive Sunday Roast interview 👇 #NeilKinnock #RupertMurdoch #UKPolitics #SundayRoast

But farmers can’t afford to sow because of Hormuz-driven fertiliser and diesel spikes, and we have no real production plan. We need the 1947 Agriculture Act principles restored, food as a public good, not more short-term fixes.

Starmer in PMQs: @RachelReevesMP will make further announcements tomorrow on cost of living. Talks with supermarkets on freezing milk, egg and bread prices are underway (ludicrous!). This is damage limitation, treating the symptoms.

Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF

2 weeks ago

🚨 👏 PMQs today, Labour MP Josh Newman: “Many of my constituents struggle to afford their weekly shop, whilst our farmers struggle to make a living producing what goes on the shelves… Labour governments should always be on the side of working people, whether they are in the

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🚨 👏 PMQs today, Labour MP Josh Newman: “Many of my constituents struggle to afford their weekly shop, whilst our farmers struggle to make a living producing what goes on the shelves… Labour governments should always be on the side of working people, whether they are in the supermarket or on the farm.” Starmer’s reply? Cutting red diesel by a third + £11.8bn budget + surplus food redistribution. That’s not enough. Farmers are skipping sowing because fertiliser has doubled and diesel is over £1/litre due to Hormuz. Farm-gate prices are dropping while costs soar! We need proper 1947 Act-style production support, not just sticking plasters. Food security is national security. #FoodSecurityNow #PMQs

@LizWebsterSBF @VictoriaAtkins Video from the 🇬🇧 Cabinet Office on non tariff barriers to trade resulting from the Tory ZeRo TaRrIfF, zERo QuOTa Trade and Co-operation Agreement… Slow 👏🏻

Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2

4 years ago

This is absolutely SHOCKING! The Cabinet Office has released a film reminding British exporters of all the bureaucracy they now need to go through to sell goods to the EU after Brexit Watch in disbelief! No wonder British business is being crucified with Brexit red tape & costs

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🚜 Lincolnshire farmer in @FarmersWeekly “Realignment with the EU is about outcomes, not politics.” UK agri-food exports to the EU down 30–40%. Brexit cost now estimated at ~£200bn a year. Farmers are dealing with more paperwork, more cost, and lost markets. 🧵 #SaveBritishFarming #FoodSecurityNow 1/2

@SpencerBarnesUK @afneil We have always been Save British Farming and strapline is save British food. Handles on X have limited characters - but see our logo 👀

🚨 Mark Carney just nailed it: Countries that rushed into dodgy deals with the US under Trump got deals “not worth the paper they were written on.” Sound familiar, Brexit Britain? We ditched the stable EU single market for the fantasy 🦄 of brilliant US trade deals… and ended up with higher costs, bureaucracy, and now Trump tariffs. Time to stop the tantrum and do a proper reset with our biggest trading partner.

🇮🇸 Iceland fast-tracks EU referendum to August bc of Trump, Russia & China. Brexiteers swore there’d be a queue to leave. Instead: queue to join while 🇬🇧 negotiates to pay £1bn/year for scraps SM access. Brexit delivers opposite of what it promised🇪🇺

Most 🇬🇧 people don’t realise that food security was baked into the EU’s DNA from its inception. Clement Attlee’s 1947 Agriculture Act is mirrored in European treaties, Brexit stripped Britain of this human right to food and we are increasingly at the mercy of global markets. As John Major highlighted this week, the post-war generation understood you can’t leave something as vital as feeding people entirely to volatile global markets. Brexit has done this to Britain and now with Trump’s Iran war we face massive food problems. The only fix is to urgently replicate Article 39 in domestic legislation and commit to rejoining the EU. Or face huge food crises and social unrest.

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Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF

a month ago

🚨 “Food doesn’t grow in supermarkets – it grows on farms.” I spoke to LBC about the looming UK food crisis. With fertiliser, diesel & energy shocks from the Middle East war hitting hard, years of relying on world markets and Brexit barriers have left Britain dangerously

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Nobody pictures a famine in Britain. That’s the problem. We reserve that image for distant places, drought-hit lands, places that feel far away on a map. Britain doesn’t fit that picture. Neither does Australia. And that comfortable assumption is exactly what makes this moment so dangerous. Britain imports more than 40% of its food. It produces no meaningful fertilizer of its own. It has less than a month of oil in reserve. The war in Iran has already punched a one-month hole in global supply chains. The maths isn’t complicated. The denial is. Check comments for the full video. #SteveKeen #FoodCrisis #UKEconomy #GlobalFamine P.S. Famine doesn’t announce itself. It arrives quietly through empty shelves.

Lies, damned lies & Brexit lies. Brexit the economic promise gift that keeps on taking away!

Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF

a month ago

Brexiteers promised cheaper food. Instead, food inflation is set to quadruple. Prices could be 50% higher by November than in 2021. Olive oil +113%. Staples up 50-64%. Low-income families skipping meals. No food security policy. Just import reliance and global shocks. The

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🚨 🧵 Watch: On @LBC Starmer’s Cost of Living Tsar, Peer & supermarket boss @icelandrichard responding to farmer/wholesaler @MrDavidCatt1 David: “Global conflicts… diesel shortages, fertiliser prices trebling, CO2 almost non-existent… weather events… Since Brexit we’ve got no current viable government food production policies. This has left UK farming on its knees.” David (@SaveBritishFood member) continued: “Across Europe and across the globe, countries are now stockpiling food because they see a food crisis coming. How do we avoid one? This is part of our national food security, as it was in World War II.” Thread ….. 1/3

If I was PM, I’d go straight to Europe and say: forget the Brexit red lines, let’s get back into the single market immediately. I’d use emergency powers so we’re inside the EU’s resilience and can secure resources. And tell Donald Trump we don’t want his bad trade deals. Then make sure farms have what they need to produce food and speak to farmers urgently! Listen to 🎙 Food Fighters podcast here: share.transistor.fm/s/0f6ef85a

“Farmers are now talking about not cultivating at all next year. Like in 1930s agricultural depression: ‘dog and stick farming’ grass the fields, run animals, low input, low output. You’ll struggle on… but it means a big drop in food supply. The opposite of what we need.”

“Fertiliser prices up about 20% since recording (and it was already very high post-COVID). Add rising fuel — and suddenly growing cereals isn’t looking viable for many.”

🧵 Have things got significantly worse because of the Iran war? @OliFletcher, “We’ve ordered some fertilizer that’s not turned up… We don’t produce it in this country anymore.’ We’re reliant on imports, shipping, and other nations’ demand. That trust has already been tested.”

Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF

2 months ago

‼️ @OliFletcher explains he ordered fertiliser before the Iran war kicked off - still hasn’t turned up. “We don’t make it here anymore, so we’re at the mercy of global shipping and other countries’ demand. Prices have already jumped ~20% (on top of COVID highs), plus rising

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‼️ @OliFletcher explains he ordered fertiliser before the Iran war kicked off - still hasn’t turned up. “We don’t make it here anymore, so we’re at the mercy of global shipping and other countries’ demand. Prices have already jumped ~20% (on top of COVID highs), plus rising fuel. “Now lots of farmers are seriously considering not growing cereals next year and going back to low-input ‘dog and stick’ farming, grass it up, run animals, survive but produce far less food.” 🔥 Exactly what we don’t need right now. 🎙 Food Fighters podcast: share.transistor.fm/s/0f6ef85a