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WATCH: Farmer Gareth Wyn Jones praises GB News for supporting the agricultural industry
Dec 23, 2025
Farmer Gareth Wyn Jones has demanded "respect" from Sir Keir Starmer after the Government's "disgraceful" attack on Britain's countryside.Speaking to GB News, the sheep farmer hit out at Labour's inheritance tax raid and declared things are getting "more ridiculous by the day".FULL STORY HERE.
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to ask than a farmer himself
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Sheep farmer Gareth Wynne-Jones on this one this morning. Simple question, Gareth, is it the hardest winter yet
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Well, it's getting more ridiculous by the day. I think these champagne socialists are targeting the countryside
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It's a very sad time to be a farmer, globally, to be honest with you
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We're seeing attacks now on the global community, the European farmers with this influx of imports
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We've got inheritance tax here. You know, my father sits in the house behind me
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He's 89. He's worked all his life, never had a passport, never bought a new car
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He's always invested into the land. And this government is trying to take away
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the control of the food and making it even difficult for the poorer people in society
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And what a lot of people don't understand that food inflation's going up on a daily basis
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on a daily basis, and the poorer people can't afford good, nutritious
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healthy food to feed their families. And this is all due to the Labour government
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because, you know, we can't keep going. I'm going to be out here, Boxing Day, Christmas Day
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New Year's Day, New Year's Eve. I'm going to be out here every day watching after my livestock
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I don't want sympathy. And I don't want handouts. all I'm asking
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all I'm asking is a little bit of respect this government needs to be you haven got that respect my friend And I feel for you And I as a former farming reporter
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I just couldn't do your job. Just couldn't. And you're standing there in the darkness and there's this little face there shining through
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We should really go on him closer and get rid of us on this so we can see him
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But right there, what time have you been out from this morning
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I got up at half past four. I had the cup of tea and then I've been out here feeding the cows since then
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I've got a few turkeys to clean then for my family and friends later on
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And then I'm going around the sheep onto the hill and just making sure everything's all right and get everything fed
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The thing about it is when Gareth talks about what he does there, it's like we go to a supermarket and we get something in a packet
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and we open it up and da-da-da-da. He has to get it all ready for that packet
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It's real work. It's real graft. and real respect to you, Gareth, from my point of view
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Thank you. And can I say one thing as well, Eamon? Every single government across the world would regret
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what they've done to the farming communities in years to come because it's disgraceful
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We've got mental health issues, we've got people taking their own lives and they haven't listened
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There's been thousands of farmers protesting down in London, trying to get our opinions across, and they don't even open the door
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they don't even listen, it's disgraceful as they're drinking their oatmeal lattes in
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their ivory towers down in Whitehall the farmers are still at it every single day trying to produce food to feed this nation Who is actually going to be the next Gareth Gareth that the question
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Are there people lining up in your family or in your neighbourhood or whatever
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who are saying, I'll be a next generation farmer? No, there isn't. I've got a son that's keen to come in, but at this point he's on the farm working
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but we can't give him a decent wage. The scary thing is the majority of farmers
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are over their 60s and getting older, and in the next 10 years it's going to be crucial
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to bring new blood, fresh blood. And who the hell would want to come into this industry
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as it is now on its knees, you know, not being able to get a real return
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Sorry to interrupt, Gareth, but I was just wondering, I know that I've got friends who are farmers as well
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and they say Jeremy Clarkson has done more for them than almost anybody else
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Yeah, I totally agree. I think he's been fantastic to showcase. But let's be honest, Jeremy's not a farmer
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You know, he's come into the industry. No, we know that. Yeah, but he has put farming onto our mainstream media
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because, do you know what, nobody else is showing the farming community struggle
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like GB News, I'll be honest with you. And I've been on GB News since the beginning
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When I came on to, right at the beginning, people would call me right wing, this and that, and you can see you've built a channel
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around honesty and integrity. And I can only thank you. And another thing I'd like to say is we need to thank the great British public
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because they have been behind us. Now imagine if the farming industry went on strike people Imagine if these farmers said enough is enough we going on strike we going to start to pull back the food Imagine
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what would happen to this country it would go militant, people would
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go hungry, there would be shelves that would be empty. We're not going
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to do that, we're fighting for our industry but we're fighting for Great Britain, to build
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a better Britain on our bellies we need the farming communities working
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with government and at this moment it's not happening. There's a targeted attack on
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our countryside and things need to change. We need a farming food revolution
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and definitely I'm with education to go forward to teach people how to cook, how
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to eat seasonally and how to find nutritious food from British farms. Gareth, there'll be people all
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around the country standing up applauding what you have to say. We can only wish
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that you have a better new year than the year that has passed
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and the years that have passed in general. Thank you so much for what you've had to say
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and for giving us an insight, even though it's in the complete darkness
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of shedding some light on what you go through. Good luck, Gareth, to you and your family
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Just to go back to the farming story, we were talking about a little bit earlier on with Gareth
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A Treasury spokesperson said, We are backing farmers with a record £2.7 billion a year
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to grow their businesses and put more British food on our plates. Our inheritance tax changes protect public services while keeping it fair
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Three-quarters of farm estates will pay nothing. The rest pay half the usual rates spread over 10 years interest-free
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