'A third of our national workforce doesn't earn a regular wage. The Government will not get away with throwing them to the wolves' | writes Nigel_Farage CoronavirusLockdown UKlockdown lockdown
My local policeman dropped by last week and told me that farmers and smallholders are worried that people might soon start stealing their eggs, chickens and even this season’s lambs. Though the village in which I live is only 20 miles from Downing Street, this is a different world – one in which those with their finger on the pulse realise the desperate plight faced by the self-employed thanks to the coronavirus.
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