Farmers park their tractors in a Kent supermarket car park to protest against cheap imports and try and “engage with the British public”. Around 20 tractors park at Tesco Extra in Whitfield, near Dover, to raise awareness of the threat to food security in the UK, because of "terrible” post Brexit trade deals which are harming British farmers. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 [HONKING]
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00:08 British farming is on its knees, and not just today.
00:10 It's for the future.
00:12 We're looking to not just help British farmers,
00:15 but protect the British public as well.
00:17 We've had terrible trade deals done since Brexit.
00:22 We're going to be importing goods from around the world
00:25 that are to appalling standards, that are not
00:28 to our really good British food standards.
00:31 We've got the best food standards here in the world.
00:34 We want to support the British public,
00:36 make sure they're fed properly.
00:37 And we love doing that, and we want to continue to do so.
00:40 We really need to get across the dangers of cheap foreign
00:42 imports.
00:43 Cheap foreign imports that are not produced to our standards
00:46 have a real possibility of damaging
00:48 the health and the food security of our country.
00:52 If things carry on the way they are at the moment,
00:54 in 10, 20 years' time, we are not
00:57 going to be able to produce enough food to feed our nation.
00:59 And we really need to get these terrible trade
01:02 deals that are being done by the Tory government changed,
01:05 rectified.
01:06 And we also need to get supermarkets on board
01:09 to engage with us.
01:11 And we need to improve the way that supermarkets deal
01:15 with British farmers, because at the moment,
01:17 it is so unsustainable that we're
01:19 being forced out of business.
01:20 Today was more about engaging with the British public,
01:23 trying to educate Tesco's customers about buying British,
01:28 but also building for the future.
01:31 Daddy, why aren't you getting it?