Home Farm Magpie

Rural life and times, past, present and future. Tweets and re-tweets from deepest Nottinghamshire.

[Home Farm Magpie @HomeFarmMagpie]

@aat99 @MariaBowtell If MacDonalds, meal deals, and Red Bull were banned, the litter problem would decrease markedly!

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@SamaHoole @TakeThatClouds Except in the case of tenant farmers (who most people forget) who get no choice in the matter and no compensation either. Solar is about eye watering amounts of money for the developers, aided and abetted by political zealots, and has nothing to do with factual common sense.

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@JamesMelville See Rural Rebel’s enlightening post re agricultural/food supply consequences of covering 14000 acres of Norfolk with solar panels!
https://t.co/iCVsAvRQHf

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@TimWood29 @BarbaraPenny1 @LucyTCWife Have you heard of the Huguenots? Eastern Europeans to work in our mines? Caribbean people to drive buses and work in the NHS (!)? The list goes on…

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@SamaHoole @ViviSov Except that the latest NSIPs are for 40 years, with some even 60 years! Proper livestock husbandry of sheep under panels is barely possible (you can’t see them - try looking for them/directing a sheepdog in a 50 acre field of panels. Environmental measures = greenwashing

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@EileenDucksbury Absolutely! 👍 Some more here…😉

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Home | Reasons To Stay https://t.co/1rx5Nb7JZ0

If you’re finding life tough, find some hope on this website…

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@the_culturist_ The novelist Henry Williamson witnessed the Christmas truce of 1914 as a soldier and it affected him deeply for the rest of his life. He referred to it within his sequence of semi-autobiographical novels ‘The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight’, and that is where I first read of it.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Here’s farmer Charles Goadby @thisfarmlife completely debunking the Treasury and BBC Verify’s misleading impact assessment figures on the Labour government’s inheritance tax on family farms. Worth watching and sharing.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

This is an excellent piece about how farmers have been totally screwed in England, and how things look to be getting worse https://t.co/3iG5PrJV33

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Another assault of the future of agriculture in the UK…Save Agriculture at the University of Nottingham - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/8irmWM1bEd via @UKChange

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@nottm_events @VisitNotts @itsinnottingham @DHPFamily @WaterfrontNotts Where’s Wellow Maypole Celebrations?!

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

This #BackBritishFarmingDay, our farmers expect actions and not empty words from the government and MP’s.

Stop hammering rural communities with tax hikes. Support the next generation. Axe the Family Farm Tax.

That’s just a start…

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@davidsoskin @Peston Try being a farmer with Steve Reed in charge!

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@Lagertha333 @Artemisfornow Oh to be one of the ‘working people’!

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I just supported this case! Hold the government to account by contributing to help fund a judicial review….
https://t.co/tN2wBz7PHQ via @CrowdJustice

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

As a tax professional, fair do’s to CenTax.

Having given evidence to Parliament on the impact of proposed changes to IHT on farms, this left-leaning research institute went away and did further work on the policy using confidential HMRC figures.

They conclude that the measure is poorly targeted and, within all the constraints the Government has put on it, that before introduction in April 2026 it can and should be amended to reduce the impact on family farms.

As of now I am aware of no professional body, institute, or respected organisation outside of Government who support these measures, including the one that originally proposed it.

The view of professionals, academics and the industry is settled, and broadly unanimous that it must be amended.

As of now the Treasury are Family Farm Deniers.

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I just supported this case - you could too!
https://t.co/YfRT5eBG4m via @CrowdJustice

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

During a time of deep international turmoil, the UK's food security is absolutely critical.

And yet our farmers are being hammered by cuts to Basic Payments, hit with the family farm tax, and thrown under a bus in trade deals.

We need to back our farmers to produce food.

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@hawk_deputy @NoFarmsNoFoods @FarmersWeekly A third of farmers are tenants (of which my family is one) and have no choice in decisions made by their landlords. We will lose 13% of our farmed area if the largest solar development in Western Europe is approved. All land officially classified as BMV (best & most versatile).