Over two thousand angry farmers jostled their way into the hall. Chequered shirts and ruddy faces replaced the stereotype of the pale adolescent protester. Many had left their dawn milk rounds to flood to Westminster and speak out against the latest round of price cuts forcing them under. You could feel the anger in the thumping ovation received by the first speaker:
“I have never seen this level of frustration before, nor have I seen such determination to right the wrongs of this industry,” thundered Mansel Raymond, dairy chairman of the National Farmers Union, “Society doesn’t realise that this market place just doesn’t work.”
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