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Surely when you're one of the richest madmen in the world, you don't need anyone to pull your strings?

Wonder if he said the same thing about the similarly pointless, 6m strong petition that wanted to reverse Brexit?

Didn't the budget announce an extra £5bn over the next two years for the farming industry? That's significantly more than the IHT changes will bring in. Given that the IHT changes are likely to cut down on land being bought to avoid inheritance taxes rather than for farming, and once the dust...

Wasn't Michael Gove planning to ensure all schools were above average? Perhaps he can help with relative poverty too.

What kind of size company is it you work for? I'm assuming the £150k is for minimum wage rises as well as the NI?

I really don't understand any of that. My post was about why I didn't think it would affect the poorest farmers, and I gave my reasoning. We're being asked to believe that the numbers of farms affected is vastly different to those who have claimed in the past. I'd like to see the evidence for...

I'm not sure I agree. For a start, it's a fairly niche case that you would have to sell an entire farm to pay an IHT bill. By the time you get into the bills being really significant, it's almost certainly because you have a lot of land, and would only need to sell a small amount to pay the...

If they have 3 staff, I believe they'd have to earn £30k each, before the shop had to pay a penny of employers NI. For a shop with 3 staff, Labour have actually reduced the tax rate, because they've doubled the employment allowance.

I don't think any of us are close to understanding the incomes of farmers, but it just all feels like there's a lot of spin going on. The 'farmer' we're being asked to imagine is the humblest of family farmers, barely scraping by, and working till they drop dead. Far too normal, and living such...

To be fair to Bob, haven't we been told that all this equipment adds up, and is counted towards inheritance tax? I've seen plenty of talk about £500k combine harvesters in the media and on here today. If they're leased, doesn't that mean a lot less farmers are likely to be hit with the tax at all?

How did farms cope before this tax was dropped by the Tories? If you have a £3.5m farm, then selling £10k of land a year in order to inherit that business, seems a small price to pay. With the 20% rate, the £1m allowance *on top* of up to £2m that everyone else gets, and the decade to pay...

I've yet to see any brain engaged response, explaining why the Government is wrong about it only affecting a small percentage of the better off farmers. For many cases it won't affect a farm/house worth less than £3m. If it's £3.5m, then aren't you looking at £10k a year inheritance tax paid...

I think the phrase "rich farmers" comes up a lot, because that's who is really driving this debate, and who is really going to be affected. I've heard from Clarkson, Dyson, and Lloyd-Webber telling me that it's the small family farmers they care about, but not much from the farmers with the...

I agree about the margins, and while you say they're maybe not interested in the value of the land*, there must be things we can do to make it a more profitable business, especially given how important it is. (*although that does remind me a little of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's comment about them all...

What a load of nonsense. I'm surprised at that from you. That's absolutely nothing to do with the argument I was making. If the "rich (non farmers)" find another vehicle, then that's good for people who want to farm, as it stops driving up the price of farmland, and taking it out of the hands...

Most family owned corner shops will be paying the same, or less employers NI, surely? The doubling of the employment allowance means small businesses, with a handful of employees, will pay less.

Technically, surely a lot are wealthy, if they're sitting on such valuable land? But something has clearly gone wrong if farmland is so valuable, yet so economically unproductive. If you were going to spend government money on improving the situation, do you really think removing IHT, making...

I assume they pointed out that farmers are looking forward to that return improving, when the value of farmland becomes linked to farming, instead of it's value as a tax dodge?

Well, about 2 minutes to get a screenshot, and as I said, I don't think it was an obvious handball for VAR to overturn anyway. I had however, seen the offside mentioned about a dozen times in this thread alone, so plenty of City fans appear to care. Just thought they'd like to know it might not...

I believe the game was stopped for an offside after the Rodri incident. I don't think they had conclusive images to quickly make a decision on Rodri, as they have to be sure that it hit further down his arm, so I think VAR got it right anyway. This is the pass just before he calls offside, and...