The UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Steve Reed has angered farming communities after being pictured sporting £420 (nearly $500) rubber boots. The minister was photographed with former National Farmers’ Union president Minette Batters while wearing Le Chameau wellies, said to be a piece of exclusive hand-crafted footwear, according to its manufacturer. The boots’ “premium leather lining is complemented by a leather insole” and they come in the “iconic green” color.
The minister’s wellies, however, were likely not purchased by Reed himself but rather gifted by Lord Waheed Alli, a major Labour donor and one of the directors of Le Chameau, media reports suggested. At the time the posh wellies were presumably donated, they cost £270, just below the £300 threshold requiring them to get registered among members’ interests. Environment Secretary Steve Reed in his £420 wellies .
.. The labour government seems to be using Orwell's Animal Farm as an instruction manual.
The British people are being trolled by their own government pic.twitter.com/KpfYORnkMW The fashion choice has caused an uproar among British farmers, who have not minced words in their attack on the minister.
“You’ll never see a farmer who wears £400 wellies, because we’re getting them covered in muck every day,” says Aled Thomas, a farmer and Conservative councillor in Pembrokeshire, Wales, told The Telegraph. The people “are feeling quite insulted” over the .
