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Nigel Farage shares support for campaign to save Clacton farm: 'They love what they do!'
Apr 5, 2025
Nigel Farage has thrown his support behind a campaign to save Sandy's Farm in St Osyth, an educational facility that welcomes schoolchildren from across the Clacton area.The farm provides children with valuable opportunities to connect with animals and learn about the natural world.The farm houses a variety of rescued animals, including horses that had previously suffered abuse before finding sanctuary at Sandy's.Farage told GB News: "The guys that run it don't even take a salary out of it. They do it for the love of what they do."I'm very much behind this campaign to raise the money to keep this going. And I want to see it here year after year to come."YOU CAN HELP TO SUPPORT THE FARM HERE
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Thank you for joining us this morning
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This is such a fantastic place for this community here in your constituency, isn't it
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Well, it is. Good morning. And we can hear some fairly active chickens behind me as we speak
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Yeah, I mean, it's a beautiful sunny day, that helps, but, no, it's a lovely spot
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And the thing is, particularly for kids, too many of whom seem to be obsessed by electronic devices
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and maybe not going outside very much, and almost a sort of a break in a link of understanding the animal kingdom
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how it all works. So you've got everything here. I've just seen a one-day-old guinea pig to horses they've got here
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that have been, you know, abused animals that they've brought in and given a good home to
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There's some pigs here that escaped from a massive fire. So they did some very good work
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And, yeah, all the Clacton schools come through here. Of particular importance, I think, are the special educational needs
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and there's quite a bit of that in this area. And for kids like that, you know
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you don't get the opportunity to go out and do fun things, for them to come and touch the animals
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and play with the animals a bit and learn about things. So I very much want to see it continue
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But obviously, you can't run these things for free. You know, the guys that run it don't even take a salary out of it
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They do it for the love of what they do. So, yes, I'm very much behind this campaign
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to raise the money to keep this going, and I want to see it here year after year to come
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And you mentioned the impact that it can have with people with disabilities or special educational needs It amazing what animals can do and the skills that they can learn from that Do you think missing from education generally
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that kids aren't growing up learning the kind of skills of learning with animals and learning about that
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You'll be able to be here, touch them, be around these different kinds of animals that we've got at the farm here
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Yeah, I also think the sort of kind of rural life and farm life
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is so far away from, like, 95% plus of young children who grew up in towns, who grew up in big cities
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who just don't connect with the big outdoors, don't connect with the countryside
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So I think just come... I mean, just have a look around you. It's an absolutely beautiful spot, incredibly peaceful
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amazing place to be. So, yeah, I think this is very, very good for kids
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And, hey, that's not to say also that there are adults and they take these animals around to some of the old people's homes
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and things like that. But it's particularly for kids, and particularly for those special educational need kids
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Coming to a place like this does them a lot of good. Do you worry then, with the tariffs that have come in this morning
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about the impact that they could have on farms? You're, of course, the MP for a very rural constituency
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Do you worry about the impact that the tariffs will have on those farmers? Yeah, I mean, we have 100 farms in this constituency
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They're mostly small farms, mostly family farms. I don't worry so much for them about tariffs
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because most of their produce is going to be sold within the United Kingdom
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It will affect the bigger people more significantly I worry obviously about inheritance tax and how many of these old traditional family which are going on five six seven generations I worry very much about that and I think one
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of the reasons that the English countryside, British countryside is as beautiful as it
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is, it's the way families have tended that land over many, many years. So I'm deeply
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concerned about that. I'm deeply concerned that big agribusinesses will buy the whole
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thing up. I worry that, you know, in grade one farmland in Lincolnshire, we're putting
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massive solar panels built by Chinese slave labour. I mean, I do worry about many of these things
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I really, really do. I think more broadly on the tariffs, I've written a piece in today's Daily Telegraph
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where I actually think this is a very important moment. The fact that Trump gave us 10% tariffs
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which, by the way, is not good, but the fact that he gave us 10%, not 20%
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kind of shows you the world now views us differently that we've left the European Union
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We now have got to take that opportunity. let's now do Brexit properly
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Let's become more competitive than any other country in Europe, and we can do that by getting rid of so much EU regulation
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something we failed to do completely under the last Conservative government. They said, oh, well, we were so busy with the pandemic
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Well, whatever the reasons, everything from fishing to financial services, we can make things more streamlined
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we can make things more competitive. we shouldn't even think about tariff retaliation
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in fact we should do the opposite we should start lowering tariffs for food for products from around the world let become a truly competitive economy So I actually think this could be a wake call that if we get it right could really benefit us
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What are the chances of that happening? We know that Starmer is going to meet leaders with Europe and across the world
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Possibly about reciprocal tariffs. What impact would, if we were to put reciprocal tariffs on
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that would go in the opposite way to what you were just talking about there? Well, the European Union have made it fairly clear that they will reciprocate in some way
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Canada will reciprocate in some way. China already has reciprocated. We should not do so
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We should rise above this, become a much more competitive country, will be a lot richer as a result
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Starmer's problem is, on the one hand, he's quite enjoying the Brexit freedoms
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of being the bridge between America and the other European NATO allies
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He's clearly privately delighted that it's 10%, not 20%. I mean, that's fairly obvious
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But he keeps talking about an EU reset. If we reset ourselves closer back towards the European Union
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and back towards European Union laws, that'll make doing deals with America
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or many other parts of the world more difficult. So he's in a tricky spot
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We know that Starmer was the great Remainer. We know that Starmer wanted a second referendum
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them. But I just begin to wonder whether in number 10 a few of them aren't scratching
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their heads thinking, do you know what, there's actually a real opportunity here. Nigel Farage, thank you so much for joining us this morning. You heard here, er, the
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