Farmers prepare to shut down central London in protest over Labour tax plans

Farmers prepare to shut down central London in protest over Labour tax plans



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23 comments

  1. I suspect people picture all farmers as mega rich, with miles of land and millions of pounds profit from, erm, milk??? 

    Seen a lot on here, a them and us thing, but what we need to appreciate is if we are not careful, we will lose home grown product even more.

  2. I hope they drive their tractors through some of the poorest areas of London and tell the residents how farmers are poor and how it’s totally unfair that a few of them now need to pay less tax than anyone else inheriting a 1 – 3 million pound plus estate…..

  3. Sorry lads, You all voted for brexit, so you have to help pay for what it’s done to the economy 👍

  5. The newspapers and the politicians and, of course, Reddit have discovered a sudden patience, sympathy, even enthusiasm despite the disruption caused by protesters, when it’s farmers and their inheritance, not Palestinians facing genocide

  6. If you want to know why Labour are doing this, have a read of a report by Arun Advani, director of CenTax (who Labour have admitted to be working with).

    He has said:

    “If focusing relief on Inheritance Tax specifically, HMRC offering a longer payment period – potentially longer than the current 10 years – is equivalent to HMRC lending money to the company. **An alternative would be for the state to be willing to take an ownership stake**”

    The report is titled ‘Inheritance Tax reliefs: Time for reform?’, I havent linked it as not sure what the rules are about that but it can easily be found via Google.

  7. Being old, I remember the whole of the last Labour government. During that time the National Farmers Union was basically a branch of the Conservative party. They were forever on TV denouncing the government.

  8. Seriously, the farms represent wealth which they borrow against for the tractors and the range rovers and the quad bikes. I’m not able to borrow against my pension, or my house in the same way. I’m thinking that the NFU could shoot its wad on this and end up with 40% IHT.
    Labour has a large majority who are not sympathetic to the ex Tory party voters.

  9. 10,000 farmers. Considering only 27% of farmers will be affected this could be all of them

  10. The UK government spends £2.4 billion a year on farming.

  11. Fuck the farmers!!!!!! Waiting to hear all the anti just stop oil people come and explain why this is different?

    At least the laws they supported can be used to throw these cunts in jail

  12. They’ve had a flake or 2 of snow, it’ll be shutdown already

  14. I’m placing bets on many farmers not understanding how their inheritance tax works

  17. The fact you’ll see far more farmers protesting tax than climate change tells me all I need to know

  18. So it won’t affect most of the people in the country?
    Wonderful.

  20. The fact that Clarkson has the audacity to get involved in this – he literally admitted to buying a farm to dodge inheritance tax! His exploitation of the leniencies given to the the farming industry – in order to fulfill his greed and desire to die with all his cash – is the whole reason this has become an issue in the first place! Him and those like him are the cause of all this.
    I have always liked Clarkson until this point – but the sheer level of hypocrisy is astounding!

  21. A lot of villages are missing their “useful” idiots today

    The actual tax figures show 500 will be affected of the very rich. This 70000 figure has been pulled out of thin air by some super rich land hoarders who dont want to pay tax and are rabble rousing.

  22. Who do people think is going to buy farming land that has to be sold when inheritance tax cannot be paid?

    You think it will be poor people? Or maybe very rich people and large corporations?

    This policy affects 2/3rds of farms

  23. I’ve yet to see a valid argument from farmers on why they think their assets should be exempt from IHT, but other assets shouldn’t.

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