Mastodawn

I normally like Carl's take, but in this one, he calls the blockadees "farmers." No farmer has four days to spend in O'Connell Street in April! The guys with tractors are agricultural contractors &/or their employees, not farmers!

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Izzy Kamikaze 4d ago

I don't know about richer parts of the country, but in the West anyway, these guys are the kingpins of small communities. Farmers are the people who pay through the nose a couple of times a year for contractors & their massive machines to cut their silage or whatever.

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Brendan Minish

@izzykamikaze.bsky.social the other reason that some of the ' huge machines' lot are up in arms is that a lot of their business is done in cash thus they're not benefiting from rebates and claiming vat back