Some of the replies to this.🤦🏻♂️
Surely helping a young person with no parental support to get on in life makes it less likely they’ll need to rely on benefits in later life?
If you disagree, that’s fine. Vote for someone else. The GM I lead will always back our care leavers! 💪🏻
I keep hearing about hard working people.
My Dad did 43 yrs down the pit (we were 7th? generation miners)
They powered this country + both Wars we continually brag about.
Paid tax until he died of lung disease.
He didn't inherit the pit.
So nobody gives a toss.
Just saying.
i hold extremist political views such as "people should have their basic needs met" and "war crimes are bad" and "we should not accelerate the apocalypse for the profits of a few oil companies"
One thing I learned yesterday regarding UK farming is that all the farmers are essentially skint and don’t make any money whatsoever, but as long as they are exempt from inheritance tax then everything is good and totally fine?
Genuinely are there any statistics on what percentage of work done on farms is done by people who own farms? I think they would usefully demystify a lot of the discourse.
The news that people inheriting land worth at least £1 million will have to pay tax on it has drawn significantly more outrage from politicians and the press than the news that 1 in 3 children in Britain are now living in poverty.
I understand business - Farmer owns a 4m quid farm but struggl3s to make it pay because supermarkets and food manufactirers have him over a barrel and as for IHT his farm would only be worth 2 million or less but Tax dodgers have bought up loads of farm land as non taxable asset to hand down to their kids which has artificially inflated the worth of the farmers land.
"Inheritance tax relief" introduced in 1984 turned "owning agricultural land into having a licence to avoid inheritance tax," Professor Paul Cheshire tells #PoliticsLive
It led to a "four-fold increase in the price of agricultural land", he adds
https://t.co/CkUBNhKXdI
You might ask where was Clarkson during the years of Austerity and cuts? I will tell you where HE was. He was saying we could not afford the NHS and public sector workers should be shot dead for going on strike. That is where.
Solidarity with the tens of thousands of sub-minimum wage migrant workers who kept the farms running while their millionaire bosses posed for photos with Nigel Farage in London.
Reckon I don't eat or drink a single thing grown by farmers on this island
Pizza - ITALY
Kebabs - TURKEY
Curry - VARIOUS
Burgers - USA
Tea - INDIA
Madri Excepcional Cerveza de Madrid - SPAIN
Cram it, Wurzel. Put your hand in your pocket.
I'm old enough to remember the miners'strike when the Tory Brexit supporting farmers were cheering on every single swing of the baton from Thatcher's storm troopers.
So seriously .... they can fuck off.
Does anyone remember that @JeremyClarkson once said live on The One Show public sector workers protesting about austerity should be shot in front of their families?