Clare Muldoon launched a fiery attack on major supermarket chains, accusing them of squeezing British farmers “to the limit” while forcing them to work seven days a week.
She warned that high inheritance taxes and falling prices are pushing the farming community to breaking point, contributing to rising suicide rates.
The comments come as farmers launched a dramatic blockade of three major supermarket distribution centres in Peterborough overnight, preventing loaded lorries from entering or exiting the sites.
The protest, which began at midnight on Sunday, saw tractors bearing slogans including “raised right, raised British” and “Labour out” stationed at the facilities.
Ed Pritchard, the Lincolnshire farmer who organised the demonstration, told GB News the action stemmed from sheer desperation within the agricultural sector.
“The industry is in absolute turmoil,” he said. “We can’t carry on for much longer as we are.”
Speaking about this on The People’s Channel, Ms Muldoon said: “They are blockading big supermarket chains like Tesco because we know that when we go into a supermarket, the loss leader is often the milk and that milk comes from our daily herds and farmers here in the UK.
“It’s ridiculous that they are squeezed so much. The farmers are the ones actually producing it.
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“We don’t get up at stupid o’clock in the morning to milk cattle they do it seven days a week.
“We rely on them for food, milk, and dairy, yet they have been thrashed time and again by supermarkets.
“Now, with this Government and their disastrous approach to inheritance tax, farmers are pushed even harder.
“It’s no wonder that suicide rates are so high in the farming community and that life is so difficult for them.
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“Even people like Jeremy Clarkson have highlighted the mire that farmers are in and done a great job drawing attention to it.”
However, political commentator Matthew Torbitt argued: “I have no truck with the actual farmers here this isn’t about them for me. This is about fairness.
“If you take where I’m from in Stockport, for example, somewhere like Bramhall, the average house costs around £450,000.
“So, if you’re a young couple with assets of half a million, you’ll pay £70,000 in inheritance tax. That’s how the system is set up.
“For a farmer to pay £70,000, they’d need a minimum of £1.35million in assets, and it could go as high as £3.35million. That’s because of agricultural property relief inheritance tax is applied at 20 per cent, not 40.
“So I would feel a little sympathy for actual farmers. Research from the University of Warwickshire’s Centre for Tax Studies shows that only 44 per cent of farms in this country have made any money from selling food in the past five years.
“Clearly, this loophole is being used by very wealthy people to buy up land and avoid inheritance tax.
“This is more about closing a loophole than punishing farmers. It’s about having a fair tax system. We don’t want rich landowners exploiting it.
“Andrew Lloyd Webber isn’t out milking cows he may call himself a farmer, but he isn’t. He’s in his 80s, he’s landed gentry, and that’s a completely different matter.
“The point is to stop people like that taking advantage of a system that is meant to be fair.”