Dirty Paki Khunt wrote on Feb 1
st, 2024 at 8:45am:
I know, right? Just poor old Mother, who left the EU to get away from all that.
If Mother wants to buy the French farmer's cheese, she's now free to pay the 10% tariff for the privilege to do so.
In return, she must apply EU rules to all her farms and fisheries, pay a fee for this, have her goods checked at the border, and have no say whatsoever in those rules.
Thanks, old boy, for a job well done.
No, paki arse bandit, you don't know. .
The revolt is not confined to France. All across the EU, farmers are rising up against their governments and, specifically, against Brussels. Spanish farmers have announced this week that they too will join the protest movement because of the ‘suffocating bureaucracy generated by European regulations’, and Belgian farmers are also mobilising. The demonstrations began in Holland in the autumn of 2019 when more than 2,000 tractors drove to the Hague. There had been growing discontent at plans to restrict nitrogen emissions, but the catalyst for the tractor protest was the proposal by one left-wing MP to halve livestock numbers. ‘Farmers and growers are sick of being painted as a “problem” that needs a “solution”,’ said Dirk Bruins, an industry spokesman.
In Germany the anger erupted last month when Olaf Scholz’s government announced a plan to scrap a tax concession on agricultural diesel fuel. It was the breaking point for an industry exasperated by ‘an administrative overload’. Five thousand tractors drove to Berlin to demonstrate against a government that they claim has no respect for or understanding of the agricultural industry.
The protests in Romania and Poland are against what their farmers regard as unfair competition from Ukraine. Russia has blocked Ukrainian wheat exports by sea to Africa, so in order to assist Ukrainian farmers, the EU is importing it without quotas or import duties.
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The farmers’ protest has crystallised the feeling within provincial France that Paris and Brussels want to eradicate their way of life. Deindustrialisation was disastrous for rural France and farming is the only industry they have left; if that is destroyed then what remains of la belle France? Stéphanie believes it can be framed as the city vs the countryside. ‘The people making the rules and implementing them are not from the countryside,’ she says. ‘They are ignorant bureaucrats.’
Many of the men and women blockading the motorways say they are doing so because ‘they have nothing left to lose’. They are fighting for their livelihoods and their way of life.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/why-european-farmers-are-revolting/
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