Senedd Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Sam Kurtz has highlighted the symbolic display of 5,500 pairs of wellies on the steps of the Senedd today.
Last week, Mr Kurtz helped lead the largest protest in the history of the Senedd, as thousands of farmers and those from rural Wales descended on Cardiff Bay.
NFU Cymru members have created a symbolic display of 5,500 pairs of wellies on the steps of the Senedd to represent the jobs forecasted to be lost through Welsh Government’s Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals.
The stark visual display was put together by farmers at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday, March 6, the eve of the closing of Welsh Government’s ‘Keeping Farmers Farming’ Sustainable Farming Scheme consultation.
Each of the 5,500 wellingtons outside the Senedd building represents an agricultural job that is projected to be lost based on 100% take up of the scheme, as based on figures from Welsh Government’s own impact assessment.
Last week, Mr Kurtz helped lead the largest protest in the history of the Senedd, as thousands of farmers and those from rural Wales descended on Cardiff Bay.
NFU Cymru members have created a symbolic display of 5,500 pairs of wellies on the steps of the Senedd to represent the jobs forecasted to be lost through Welsh Government’s Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals.
The stark visual display was put together by farmers at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday, March 6, the eve of the closing of Welsh Government’s ‘Keeping Farmers Farming’ Sustainable Farming Scheme consultation.
Each of the 5,500 wellingtons outside the Senedd building represents an agricultural job that is projected to be lost based on 100% take up of the scheme, as based on figures from Welsh Government’s own impact assessment.
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00:00 Something quite different happening on the steps of the centre this morning.
00:03 I'm not sure if you can spy them behind me but we have five and a half thousand
00:12 wellington boots to represent the five and a half thousand people who could potentially lose
00:22 their jobs in rural Wales thanks to the sustainable farming scheme. It's quite misty,
00:29 you can't even see across the bay here this morning so it's quite poignant actually and
00:34 powerful seeing these wellingtons lined up in the mist on the steps of the centre. Five and a half thousand.