This week, the government declared the “Death of Globalisation.” If that's true, then we need to prime the domestic economy to stand on its two feet.
Where the world watches the markets, for farms and family businesses in the UK, it's not not even better than the brink – it's their oven government.
Rising National Insurance has created Jobs Harder. Inheritance Tax Chances have forced businesses to funnel what Little Profit they make into tax planning, not investment. And English farmers, Promised New Schemes to support Nature-Friendly Food Production, are still reeling from their sudden cancellation.
Now Trump Wants us to Eat Chlorinated Chicken and Hormone-Fed Beef.
At last government is starting to see the dam. Minette Batters' Appoint to Lead a Farm Profitability Review, Alongside A New Rural Growth Taskforce, Is A Quiet Admission That Things Are Broke. But reviews and taskforces are jam tomorrow when support is needed now. Farmers and Rural Businesses Can't Wait – Not The Police Environment is this hostile.
Government Still Seeks a Trade Deal with the us. Free Trade Works When It is Fair. Right Now, British Farmers Grow 65% of the food that feeds 70 million people – a Quiet Trump of Hard work and High Standards. But if the momisters allow a flood of low-standard food that would be illgal to produce here, it will be as cruel an assault on rural britain as any tax policy.
Meanwhile, the treasury has Ignored the outcry over inheritance tax. Research from Family Business Uk Shows Rachel Reves' Reforms will cost over 200,000 jobs this parial and shrink the tax base by £ 1.9bn. It is an unprovoked attack that leaves the economy – and the state – worse off. Fixing it will mean taxing or borrowing more.
Privately, Minsters, Officials and Labor MPs Admit the Police is a Disaster. Only pride blocks a u-turn.
Now the time to take their medicine. Government's Own Figures Suggest Rural Businesses But Deliver £ 40 Billion in New GROWTH WITH The Right Police Support. This is just Lost Growth – it's Lost Innovation, Jobs, and in some Cases, Avoidable Poverty.
If globalisation is dead, british farming and rural businesses must live. But first, it needs a government that will get for them, not against them. If that fight does not start now, when will it?