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Not a bad turn of phrase here, either:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/19/all-power-to-the-farmers-revolt/

The Guardian-reading classes seem to think that energy comes from the plug socket and food comes from Ocado, rather than from the hard graft of those whose livelihoods Labour now seems willing to decimate. […]

Starmer and Reeves could do with learning the lessons of recent history. In 2000, an arrogant New Labour government initially refused to rescind a rise in fuel duty despite protests from farmers and hauliers. A militant farmer from South Wales, among others, responded by leading farmers and lorry drivers in a blockade of roads, oil refineries and fuel-shipping terminals. This eventually brought the state to its knees and prompted the government to perform a humiliating u-turn.