Farmers from Hampshire and Surrey join the protest in London

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Farmers from Hampshire and Surrey join the protest in London against the Government's inheritance tax measures. Speakers included TV star Jeremy Clarkson and Lib-Dem leader Sir Ed Davey

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00:00I think we need you to sing a bit louder, I don't know if we can hear you.

00:20Wherever we go, wherever we go, people wanna know, people wanna know, who we are, who we

00:29are, where we come from, where we come from, we're the farmers, we're the farmers, the

00:36mighty, mighty farmers, the mighty, mighty farmers, and if you can't hear us, and if

00:41you can't hear us, let's shout a little louder, let's shout a little louder.

00:45We're talking to so many farmers, my family has gone on target for 175 years, with me

00:53being the fifth generation, and James Ringley being the sixth.

01:03...would look after you, and I'm afraid they didn't, and many farmers voted for change,

01:11but you've found you've got a government that just isn't listening to you.

01:16One, two, three, cheer!

01:22Thanks everyone, thanks Emily, thanks Ollie.

01:30Hello everybody!

01:33You're right, and when I was here, like a lot of people who live in cities and Twitter,

01:40I thought farmers drove around in Range Rovers, moaning, until February, and then you all went...

01:50And then about five years ago I started farming, and I've come to understand just how unbelievably

01:58difficult it is, and complicated, and dangerous, and cold, very cold, even when we're harvesting

02:07it's cold.

02:08I'm here today supporting my local farmer, one of the farmers in the Farnham and Borden

02:12constituency, who've been writing to me about the terrible impact that the Labour's change

02:16to the inheritance tax is going to have on their local farmers.

02:19But it's not just inheritance tax, it's national insurance contributions, the minimum wage,

02:23and the government's claiming this is only going to affect the big landowners, the corporates,

02:28it's not true.

02:29I've been talking to Bob, who's a farmer from Rumford today, and he's absolutely devastated

02:33that he's perhaps going to have to sell his farm, his sons are not going to be able to

02:37inherit, and this is going to have a really big impact, not just actually on the farmers,

02:41but actually on all of us, because if we don't have food insecurity, if we lose our small

02:45farmers, then we won't have those people growing and producing food in our constituency, and

02:49that will hit us all.

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