28/10/2026
This 👇 Surprise, Surprise!
❌ Labour Betrays our Farmers 🌾
Chancellor John Healey has betrayed our farming families across Wales, by failing in the Budget to reverse the unfair and cruel Family Farm Tax, that Labour brought in with Starmer as PM.
That decision threatens even more family livelihoods, rural jobs and food production across Wales.
The Chancellor had the opportunity to reverse the financial punishment inflicted on farming families by Rachel Reeves. He chose to leave it in place. That is a deliberate and shameful betrayal of the people who feed our country.
Farmers in my constituency of Monmouthshire and Torfaen, and across Wales, have spent generations building their businesses. Labour is leaving their children facing the prospect of selling the land beneath their feet to pay the taxman. This not only affects a farming family, but the local food supply chain and the entire rural community surrounding it.
A new survey of farmer’s in Britain found just 5 per cent were optimistic about the country’s long-term food security. Some 42 per cent had considered leaving farming because of financial constraints.
Forcing families to sell productive assets could damage farms’ viability, with consequences for suppliers, contractors and rural employment.
Most farmers are asset rich, but cash poor. This tax punishes families for keeping a farm going and passing it to the next generation.
Breaking up working farms opens the door to wealthy speculators while putting our food security at risk. Refusing to reverse this policy may signal the end of rural life as we know it, stopping the bect generation of farmers producing our food to feed our Nation.
Today the phrase ‘food security is national security’ feels nothing but an empty promise.
Scrap the family farm tax. Stop treating our countryside as a cash cow.