65% self-sufficient, exports grain, higher than 70% impossible for choice/climate. in the "good old days" boomers allude to of shire horses and yokels without shoes, closer to 30%. particularly inter-war we more or less gave up completely. this is not how the popular imagination has it though so we have an essentially false debate about the topic. what starmer has cracked down on is people buying agricultural land to get round inheritance tax. hence the fact its being talked about by think tanks and in newspaper, if it was just smelly old farmers with manure on their boots nobody would give a shit.
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