German Farmers Protests

brickster69

Looks like this week long Farmers strike has well and truly taken off in Germany. Thousands of them turned up from all over the place and looks like things are starting to grind to a halt already in some parts. Not sure why like, but some turnout from them. It only started 3 hours ago.

https://twitter.com/BreakingIEN/status/1744308375968432458

Gregor Samsa

Not sure why like

It's a protest about the proposed ending of tax breaks on agricultural diesel. Although there could well be other elements to it too (the article below mentions that haulage companies have joined the protests in some areas because of increases in road tolls).

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/01/08/german-farmers-block-major-highways-with-tractors-in-protest-against-plans-to-scrap-diesel

Thelonious Monk

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1752959949737537641

looks like our lads are going to protest too. Why is it that the patriots and right wing twitter accounts love farmers protests so much? Is it because in their view they're the opposite of urban leftists who love immigration or something?

brickster69

France has been wild the last few days

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-farmers-protest-paris-arrests-tractors-snarl-traffic/

Brussels also

https://twitter.com/SGRAonEarth/status/1753016753481810237

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121704831#Comment_121704831

Probably because it's someone that's protesting against the government and they join in. See the same at immigration centers, or indeed the riots in Dublin last year. There's always an element of knobjockies who join in these protests to cause trouble and probably haven't a scooby why the protests are ongoing in the first place

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121705002#Comment_121705002

To be fair we already outsource most of our food production in Ireland

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/ireland-has-been-net-importer-of-food-since-2000-un-data-reveals/

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121705056#Comment_121705056

Yeah any type of disruption is good in their eyes I guess

dmakc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121704831#Comment_121704831

You're very tiresome spouting this crap a few posts in. Maybe get a new hobby?

jmayo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121704831#Comment_121704831

Maybe because they aren't left wing loons and greenies wanting to consign European farmers to the scrap heap of history.

Maybe you should educate yourself as to how urban folks have been greeting the farmers driving into their towns and cities.

A hell of a lot of the urban folks are as pis*ed off with governments, their media lackies and associated hangers on as their country cousins.

I suppose you would subscribe to the same opinion as the gobshyte green politician in Germany telling framers to use electric tractors.

Potatoeman

Farmers get subsidies as they can’t compete with cheaper imports and this includes cheaper fuel. They seem to be targets for green policies, while governments sign trade deals that allow cheap imports that are shipped half way across the planet on fossil fuel ships, from countries with lower environmental controls. Does this make any sense?

I don’t agree with protests that block ordinary people going to work though.

jmayo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121706801#Comment_121706801

The whole idea of subsidies is to keep food prices low.

If farmers were paid what covers cost with a decent margin built in for living wage plus some money for investment and then the food companies/supermarkets were to take their nice markup, the ordinary people would be back to the bad old days of spending a big chunk of their income on food.

Instead governments have come to realise hungry people are not very compliant so they ensure food prices stay low and the only way of doing that is to subsidise the producers.

The cost of production, the tracking and tracing, the level of bureaucracy in Europe is astronomical in comparison to some countries that the EU wants to do deals with in preference to their own producers.

And now to add to it the fooking cabbage heads have decided that European farmers are the major cause and biggest solution to pollution and carbon build up.

The dipshytes want to destroy Irelands national herd, flood half of Netherlands, finish small farmers for the most part in Europe and don't seem to notice a lot of the ones filling the demand will be clearing rain forests in South America.

20silkcut

On the Food security issue. Yes I am not entirely happy with the development of a monoculture of powdered milk from this country but it does still give us some degree of leverage and control and clout in the food market and takes full advantage of our wet climate. I mean there has to be some upside to all the rain?

L.Ball

I heard they were right wing so they must be bad, german goverment should come down hard on them.