There is no progressive future for Britain without the farming community on board

Farmers deserve at least as much consideration from Labour as Generation Rent or workers trapped in the gig economy. We can't afford to lose them to the far right.

British farming is in deep, deep trouble. The constant push to provide ever-cheaper food to supermarkets, in competition with ever-cheaper imports, has resulted in consolidation of family farms into gigantic quasi-industrial operations. This has massively accelerated nature loss, turbo-charged air and water pollution and soil deterioration. The supermar…