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https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/13/the-war-on-fertiliser-comes-to-britain/

Having made an excellent start in trying to make British citizens both colder and poorer, the Net Zero fanatics in the new Labour Government are turning their attention to making them hungrier. New taxes on agricultural fertiliser could add £150 million to the costs of local farmers faced with a choice of producing less food or raising prices. Such bravery in the governing Ship of Fools can only be admired. When President Gotabaya Rajapaka of Sri Lanka imposed a ban on similar fertiliser, the local harvest failed and he was forced to hightail it out of the country in a military jet ahead of an angry delegation of concerned citizens. One protester, G. P. Nimal, told the BBC that they wanted to put the Rajapakas in an open prison, “where they can do farm work”.

The U.K. Finance Minister has confirmed plans to levy a ‘carbon’ import duty on a number of vital supplies including fertiliser, cement and aluminium. The Daily Telegraph reports that the tax could be around £50 to £75 a tonne. It is not clear how much extra the farmers will have to pay since the tax applies to imports from countries that don’t load so-called carbon penalties on fertiliser production. Lord Fuller, Chairman of the liquid fertiliser firm Brineflow, suggests that farmers will have to bear an extra annual burden of £150 million.