The only laws that farmers in a democracy are obligated to obey are laws they themselves voted for, or laws they explicitly authorized their representatives to vote for on their behalf.

Starmer’s new tax squeeze does not bind anyone who did not vote for it directly or through their representative.

It is time for the British public to stand up for its rights under the law and to stop allowing those who enact laws that are plainly unlawful to violate the most basic democratic and human rights of every individual.

Americans, too, were once subjected to extortion by a British regime that imposed taxes that were plainly unlawful. Those British subjects stood upright, asserted their rights, and that is how America was born.

The creation of America on the ruins of the British regime’s money-extraction machine was not a violation of the law, but the fullest realization of human rights.

And that is what every farmer should do today — not rebel against authority, but refuse to obey criminals who have taken control of authority and are using it in ways that violate the most basic human rights of every person.

It is important to obey the laws you voted for, just as it is important to refuse to obey laws that were enacted against the will of the public. 

That is democracy. 

Anything else is colonialism, dictatorship, and the rule of laws that are plainly unlawful.