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A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.
Employer NI went from 13.8% to 15% in April 2025. The threshold dropped from £9,100 to £5,000.
That's an extra £937.80 per employee per year.
Since then, payrolled employees have dropped by 184,000 and unemployment just hit its highest level since 2015.
Nobody's connecting the dots.
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Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it.
You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe.
Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in.
Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell.
You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives.
But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone.
Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk?
It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother?
Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense.
Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations.
But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold.
That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant.
Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on?
More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother?
Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase.
Incompetence reigns.
Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground?
Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk?
It is brutal.
Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments.
No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government.
You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead.
We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can.
We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more.
If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance.
I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities.
They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not.
My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better.
Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.
I can’t watch anymore! Is he that disconnected with what’s going on in Britain and London that he truly doesn’t know what’s happening (I don’t think so). What I truly believe it to be is ‘self preservation mode’, preserving his mind and his soul because if he allows himself to be exposed to what’s actually happening and what he really knows, it will completely destroy him from the inside out for allowing it to get this bad. This has gone too far now!
Please step aside @MayorofLondon because if you can’t face and acknowledge what’s truly going on and acknowledge the downfall of our capital city then please hand over the reigns to someone like myself who has seen the best and worst of humanity, someone who can face it, handle it and has the ‘know how’ to tackle it head on for what it really is with a zero tolerance approach! I honestly fear for his wellbeing and would urge him to step aside and let me help and take things from here…