Guy Smith

Wine Trader and owner of Smith and Evans English Sparkling Wine. Currently to be found @guythegrape.bsky.social

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@ChezBruce And very very good it was too 🍾🤩

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Well goodbye X , I liked you when you were called twitter. It seems you're now @bluesky
If you're on there come and say hello.
https://t.co/BLJlpKuHzR

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@BarryHavenhand @JonathanPieNews @SeanDromgoole @susannahmh All sounds like perfectly normal day to me. That day you had the political editor of a national newspaper, a film editor that did Harry Potter and James Bond and a bone fide Lady amongst others. Same old same old.

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@RevRichardColes I believe it's a Boaty Mcboatface.

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A Fascist in charge with no checks and balances.
It's the end of the America we've known in our lifetime.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .

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@joefattorini If my eyes don't deceive me he's sitting next to Chris Failing Grayling

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I think @KamalaHarris is going to do it and with just enough votes to get a decent majority in the electoral college.

[Norma Ballingall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇵🇸 @Balr0g]

This is clever.
@mrjamesob

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@RachelSJohnson If it stops very wealthy individuals with little or no interest in farming buying up land to avoid IHT then it could be good. This practice inflates land values and if they fall then new entrants with genuine love of farming will no longer be priced out.

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@joefattorini For what it's worth (which is not very much) I don't agree with the government.
As an aside, what I do see is, younger people falling out of love with alcoholic drinks for all sorts of reasons and not just down to price. I don't think many people are addressing this.

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@joefattorini Really? I have just voiced what I believe the government is thinking.
I've done those 60 hour weeks so please don't condescend to me.

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@joefattorini @RathfinnyEstate I can't speak for The Drivers.
I'm any event, if GB Wine is going to work, I think it's inevitable that wealthy individuals will be replaced by drinks businesses with global distribution networks.

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@NoFarmsNoFoods @JeremyClarkson Surely farms will just be passed on earlier as gifts? If the gifter survives seven years then there's no IHT. Also, are land values inflated by tax avoiding super rich people buying with no interest in farming ? Lower values would help new entrants who are currently priced out.

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@wineschools I think the most important thing for growth is investment in R&D, training and climate change mitigation.

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@JeremyClarkson If you're referring to the IHT on farming, taking out super rich people that have little or no interest in actual farming who buy land just for tax avoidance must be a good thing?

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@joefattorini I do agree that owning land is oppression. It never leaves you alone, there's always something escaping, growing in the wrong place, not growing at all or breaking down 🙂

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@DanielLambert29 Not really in the scheme of things.