Jeremy Clarkson to defy doctors’ orders and lead thousands of farmers from Diddly Squat as they descend on Westminster to protest against Labour’s ‘death’ inheritance tax raid

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14098353/Jeremy-Clarkson-defy-doctors-thousands-farmers-Diddly-Squat-Westminster-protest-Labours-inheritance-tax.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile

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27 comments

  1. Well, it he dies now at least he knows how much inheritance tax he his estate will pay

  4. Does Jeremy clarkson do anything other than be a whiny over-privileged twat? Do people still like him? It’s embarrassing to watch

    Edit: read he punched a black man, he didn’t. He punched an Irish man over his food not being warm enough. An unbearable embarrassing lout? Definitely. A racist? No evidence of that YET.

  5. The only reason this obnoxious lump became a farmer was to avoid paying taxes.

  6. I don’t see the media descending on these days like they do on the climate protestors…

  7. 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!

  8. So the police will arrest him, and give him 5 years right? Just like other protesters?

  9. Nice to see him channel his energy on a good cause. No way his 12.5 million pound farm would ever fall under a threshold and he knows it.

  10. Hope he has enough steak, I heard he can get a bit tetchy when he’s hungry.

  11. The more I read on this, the less I understand…

    BBC News article today full of farming families where the kids are devastated they won’t be able to afford the inheritance tax – despite the fact the farm was always to be passed down.

    Why doesn’t this just happen sooner rather than later? Isn’t it better to get new generations into farming quicker? Or perhaps is there an impact on what the elder generation can/can’t do on the farm to make money after gifting it?

  12. I like the inclusion of the word death in the headline.

    When else would you pay inheritance tax?

    Edit: To the people trying to explain to me the technicalities that you can pay IHT while alive. Fair enough, but that’s not why it’s included is it? It’s included because it’s emotive and trying to manipulate the reader.

  13. This isn’t crushing farmers. There’s a 3 million cap. This is affecting those that use farms as a tax loophole.

  15. If the kids plan to take over the farm why dont the parents give it to them sooner than later and all this tax will be avoided

  18. Farmers, yet again, wanting their cake and eat it too. If there’s any, at all, accurate judgement the Alan Partridge character passed on a slice of British society, it’s fkn farmers.

  19. Won’t somebody please think of the land owners.

  20. A lot of mendacious bullshit being spouted by the farming lobby. Children not being allowed to inherit the more valuable farms tax-free will not mean the end of farming. A lot of farmland is unsuitable for building on or legally proteced against that kind of development. If some of the biggest, most valuable farms have to sell off some land to pay off IHT (at half the normal rate!) after exploiting all the loopholes that minimise liability, then it will make it possible for “new blood” to get into farming rather then perpetuating existing family ownerships. Why should farming be allowed to operate as a “closed shop” that effectively excludes people who would like to get into the business? Also, why, for example, should Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh (net worth over £900 million) and owner of 10,000 acres of farmland be allowed to pass this land on to his family without any IHT???

  21. “Come Peons (who this will have no impact on), we must protect my investment!”

  22. Weird how Clarkson never did anything like this with the numerous tory policy that fucked over the poor and working eh.

    It’s a club, and we’re not in it.

  23. So from what I remember in accountancy exams, many many many millionaires buy farming land for IHT dodging. 

    I feel like there’s an in-between here for actual working farmers, not those sitting on the land.

  24. Tax dodging landed gentry are the primary targets of this tax, BOO HOO.

  25. Here is a harsh truth about farming. Much of the land in the UK is, at best, marginal for farming, and is only done so through extensive subsidy payments.

    After the Second World War, the farming policy was simple: produce more and more food. Do anything to do it. Farms became highly mechanised operations, at taxpayers expense, while destroying our natural world to try and farm locations that are, at best, marginal to farm.

    Farming is long, hard, back-breaking work, and arguably from a national security stand point we should be producing more food. But the whole industry is insanely conservative and wary of anyone who doesn’t have farming in their family to the point of being openly hostile to them. If they had their way, government would just shove money into their accounts and go away.

    This way of doing things has decimated the natural world, made farmers poorer, allowed the richest to buy up land, and has made us more reliant on foreign imports of food. The whole industry is well overdue a reckoning, and is now being manipulated by people who have bought farmland as a tax dodge and don’t want to pay tax.

    Fuck Clarkson, he is part of the problem. But lets not pretend that the problems will go away once he pipes down.

  26. It’s funny because this is people like Jeremy Clarksons fault

    Brazenly admitted on national television he bought the farm to dodge tax 😂piss off

  27. I’m fine with farms retaining generous tax breaks IF they agree to adhere to more stringent environmental legislation, agree to implement new methods and techniques to make us less reliant on food imports and grant rights of way that they’ve closed up.

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