UFU president William Irvine has said the 6,000 plus farmers who turned out for their protest rally against the farm family tax has given them a massive mandate as they head to London tomorrow
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00:00So, you're bound to be pleased with the turnout tonight?
00:04We are massively pleased with the turnout tonight.
00:07When we pulled this together, we were hopeful of a couple of thousand.
00:12Six thousand is beyond our wildest dreams.
00:15And it just shows the genuine concern farm families are feeling right round the province.
00:20And does that give you a mandate now to go to London?
00:23That gives us a massive mandate.
00:25And we will be taking that to the Secretary of State tomorrow morning
00:28and laying our case on the table.
00:31We have 12,000 plus of petition to hand over to him.
00:37And we have the voice of Northern Agriculture spoke loud and clear tonight.
00:42And what will that delegation be made of tomorrow?
00:45That's made of myself and the two deputies.
00:49And I think it's 18 of our NextGen group.
00:55We purposely brought them because this really does affect the NextGeneration.
01:00And along with us is three representatives from the Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster.
01:05So we're taking 21 people over tomorrow.
01:07The two girls who spoke tonight got a massive response from the crowd.
01:11They really touched the heart of the crowd.
01:15To get that reaction from the crowd is just unbelievable for those two girls.
01:21But they nailed it with their comments.