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Henry's Tractor

Henry parked his tractor in Whitehall
Turned to the camera to explain
My lifestyle is under threat, he said
It’s causing my accountant great pain

The only way to farm this land, he said
Is if your father was a farmer too
And if your granddad owned it before him
Then farming’s what you’re born to do

Like being a millionaire, I thought
The bit that was going unsaid
Why’s the right to own and work the land
Restricted to the born and bred?

Henry and the tractors were holding up traffic
Like Just Stop Oil in tweed caps
Barbour coats and green wellies
A Reform UK uniform, perhaps

Like mustard-trousered Farage
Defending the interests of his class
Henry parked his tractor in Whitehall
What a fucking arse
 

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Comments

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sat 14th Dec 2024 11:20

Buy a few acres of farmland and pretend you’re a farmer; that way, you can be one of the 275 families who pass on £2 billion worth of assets to their families, without paying taxes which could have gone to paying for those whingeing commies’ hospitals, schools and roads.

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Steve White

Sat 14th Dec 2024 10:42

Exactly, Uilleam. The Countryside Alliance reboot as Just Stop Inheritance Tax.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sat 14th Dec 2024 09:25

Bloody middle-class protestors; pretending to be working-class, with their flat-caps and wellies, defending the interests of the upper-classes; blocking the roads, stopping ambulances and fire engines from getting to my nana Moggy’s manoir!

They’ll all be up at the Top Barn in a couple of weeks’ time, with their Chelsea tractors and trailers full of gee-gees, destroying all the grass verges, and accidentally-on-purpose savaging foxes to death with their playful hounds.
All in the name of "Conservation" of course!

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