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London Swarmed By Farmers On Tractors

London Swarmed By Farmers On Tractors

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@AThousandYoung said
Who has time to drive a tractor across the country to protest a tax on millionaires - the white tenant farm worker described in the Grapes of Wrath excerpt I posted above - or the owner with the tractor and 50,000 acres?
England is a small country, for starters (never mind its former grand ambitions).

Looking at the map, it's probably just a three-minute drive from Sheffield to London even by tractor (for instance).

From across the pond, I appreciate the demonstration and the lack of merde-slinging.

Who do those chronic blabbers in Parliament think feed them or at least their constituents?

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This is like knights riding from their rural manor into town calling themselves farmers and claiming that their children work alongside the serfs.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
I've been on farms in Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, because I had family there that were farmers. Never saw any Mexicans.
And you tell me where in England you expect to see any.
Just can't help yourself, can you? Gotta make out like white people don't do anything but sit back and let the brown people do all the work.
You have millionaire relatives with vast estates of land? Who do they hire to do the work?

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@Arkturos said
Perhaps those states are just not attractive to Mexicans (or Central or South Americans) or maybe it was just a matter of timing?

Each of us is only given so many dots to connect.
No more likely his family own a small farm and are not millionaires with 50,000 acres.

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https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/migrant-farm-laborers-harder-and-harder-get

Migrant Farm Laborers Harder and Harder to Get

Alayna DeMartini
Nov. 6, 2017

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s agricultural industry heavily depends on an ever-shrinking number of migrant workers from Mexico and Central America, many of them undocumented

...Several fields or partial fields in Sandusky County went unharvested because not enough staff could get to them before they rotted, said Allen Gahler, the county’s Extension educator. Crops such as tomatoes, cabbages and peppers need to be harvested right on time or they get overripe and spoil.

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@AThousandYoung said
I don't really have anything to say about this myself
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The post that was quoted here has been removed
Nice of you to chime in from the other side of the planet. 😉

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@AThousandYoung said
Import the food from Ireland they have potatoes they won't mind
Nice burn.

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@AThousandYoung said
Get competent farmers on that land and increase food production. Apparently the current owners are not managing their farms efficiently.
This was the first post of yours that I saw in this thread, and I wasn't sure whether you might have been ironic or sarcastic -- but as things developed, I think I can appreciate your point of view:

If they can spend the money and take the time to drive to London, then they are not really poor farmers on the brink of killing themselves out of poverty and despair.

But it's still a pretty cool demonstration, especially against the blabbing class!

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Pretty sure that first downvote was from one of the blabby class. 😉

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Resident of Earth. 😉