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Tractor looks expensive. On the upside they can sell it to pay the IHT.

Well, if land values are depressed or fall then the IHT threshold is less likely to be breached and no (or less) IHT will be paid. Although the same farmers will no doubt protest that the Govt has trashed the value of their farms. In short they want high value farms and to pay no tax. Sort of...

Yes. It’s called irony. Wasted on the zombie right, but still, a man has to try.

Er, yes. It’s called IHT. It’s what they are all bitching about.

Man the barricades! Protect the rich! Exempt wealthy landowners from inheritance tax! Encourage land speculation at the expense of the honest farmers! You should get T-shirts printed with these handy slogans and wear them with pride.

Yes. Wealthy landowners like Dyson and co have such teeny, tiny shoulders. Poor lambs.

Which is their right and one they are currently exercising - as well as blocking emergency vehicles which is (apparently) a shocking and heinous crime.

I am sure the Govt will be delighted to impose tariffs on food and increase food prices on UK consumers given we have been putting off imposing Brexit import controls for the last few years. Yet another issue Labour will eventually have to confront thanks to our own stupidity. If you exempt...

Really? And increasing the payment threshold for farmers is not helping that affordability by exempting them from the tax? Very odd. Surely, the principle of exempting the majority of working farms and targeting the land speculators who drove up land prices is both just and fair.

If there is a work around for Jeremy, there is a work around for everyone. Or he really is complaining for himself and the rest is bollocks :)

Pleased we have finally established that the issue is not the IHT but the potential threshold. Proposed threshold is £1m and the IHT rate is 20% above that figure (note threshold could be as high as £3m for a couple taking into account other allowances). The average farm is worth around £2m...

I see the ‘protect the wealthy from the horrors of paying tax’ crowd are in full cry today. Poor old Jeremy, though. I feel his suffering. This is going to be a fun thread :)

One woman missed a cancer appointment? Seriously? That’s it? The NHS strikes alone caused thousands to be cancelled/rescheduled not to mention those appointments that get rescheduled as a matter of course. We banging up junior doctors too? The estimated damage to the soup stained painting was...

The four/five years sentences were handed out in July this year a couple of weeks after the election so yes, you are correct. That it is a State/Establishment issue I would agree with. The State always punishes perceived threats more harshly. Too harshly with respect to JOS in my opinion - but...

In order. 1. No, it isn’t serious. It’s bollocks and only applies to left leaning protests. Ambulances as we know never go to right leaning demos. 2. The damage was estimated at £10k worth of clean up. 3. No. As far as I am aware JOS did not try and instigate physical violence and/or mass race...

Ah, the classic ‘what about the ambulances full of sick children’ defence. Amazing bad luck. Whenever there was a JOS protest, fleets of ambulances were immediately diverted to the scene. GPS must have been on the blink. What about the two years inside for throwing soup at a painting that the...

The Just Stop Oil protesters received record sentences for non-violent protests. Should they be classed as political prisoners given the sentencing was driven by political motives/legislation by the then right wing Tory Govt? Did they deserve years in jail compared to the rapist example the Mail...

The silly sod is all over the place. Pick a lane, dude, pick a lane.

Deporting people that have their asylum applications and subsequent appeals rejected/denied was never the issue. Deporting people without hearing or even processing their applications was the issue. All countries have a legal process and that process should be respected not ignored by the...

I agree that the culture of a country adapts and changes over time and through the influences of other cultures and customs that it absorbs. We are a multicultural society but the UK does better than most European nations in integrating different ethnic groups. And while we are a multicultural...