The Labour Government

[bluethrunthru]

Ginger hair, a recessive gene, more common in inbred populations. Couldn't they have used their 12 toes to do some maths?

I'd like to think its simple uneducated people who are easily led

 

[bluethrunthru]

I wouldn't turn up to protest against something that doesn't affect me.

Farage Riots summer 2024

 

[bluethrunthru]

I lost respect for farmers back during the foot and mouth outbreak which they milked and by deliberately spreading by selling barrels of infected cattle blood for lots of money on the black market between eachother in order to claim the govt money that was on offer for them

Mate - sheep farms around here - there were restrictions on movement and it was common knowledge that farmers were buying/selling sheep and moving them in the dead of night. Far from every movement but a certain number did result in FnM outbreaks

 

[bluethrunthru]

You mean the equipment is leased. How do they afford the monthly payments? What with them being so poor and all that. And does the lease allow for damages while *checks notes* driving through police barricades?

It all has a bit of a ‘Landed Gentry Go On a Jolly Protest’ vibe with Lord Farquaad leading the way.

Yes it is - Like expensive SUV's and EV's are - however if its leased how is that included in payment of IHT?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Blue collar workers demand a pay increase they’re troublemakers they don’t deserve it but landed gentry protecting their £5 million plus inheritance well that’s okay for some.

there will be people on here who have had a hip replacement after Labour settled the strikes and people who have enjoyed a few months regular commuting rather than a nightmare when Labour settled the rail disputes who will still moan about those settlements and don't want Clarkson to be taxed.

 

[Vic]

Funny how the blocking the ambulances argument gets a lot of mentions on here today, but not when the pro-Hamas rabble have been out polluting the streets every weekend for the past year.

Whoosh...

The original post just reminded us of the length prison sentences for Just Stop Oil protestors who caused delays.

 

[Vic]

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

"If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it."

Might pick up last year's model for around £100k

 

[Vic]

If they are using assets worth many millions of pounds to make no return, are they actually undertaking useful economic activity? I know that they think they do because they believe that they are producing food. I do not dispute this. What I am saying, however, is that if they believe that statement to be true but that it is not possible to make money as a result, then they should not be blaming the government for imposing a tax charge on the value of land, but should instead be asking the question as to who does make that return when it is obvious that there is a vast market for food in the UK, which must be exploiting them if they are not making money. Shouldn't they, in fact, be going to the government and saying. “Please help us make money?” rather than “Please stop taxing?” Aren't the farmers protesting, in other words, about exactly the wrong thing?

Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong

The argument about farmers having to pay inheritance tax at half the normal rate on transfers of their property that they might make on death exceeding £2 million or more in value at that time is one that Labour does, most definitely, have to win. I do not make the arguments...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

 

[metalblue]

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

And farm the land with a shire horse? Have you ever been to a farm?

 

[metalblue]

If they are using assets worth many millions of pounds to make no return, are they actually undertaking useful economic activity? I know that they think they do because they believe that they are producing food. I do not dispute this. What I am saying, however, is that if they believe that statement to be true but that it is not possible to make money as a result, then they should not be blaming the government for imposing a tax charge on the value of land, but should instead be asking the question as to who does make that return when it is obvious that there is a vast market for food in the UK, which must be exploiting them if they are not making money. Shouldn't they, in fact, be going to the government and saying. “Please help us make money?” rather than “Please stop taxing?” Aren't the farmers protesting, in other words, about exactly the wrong thing?

Farmers protesting about inheritance tax have got their econonics and arguments wrong

The argument about farmers having to pay inheritance tax at half the normal rate on transfers of their property that they might make on death exceeding £2 million or more in value at that time is one that Labour does, most definitely, have to win. I do not make the arguments...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

I largely agree with the principle of this.