John Carter

Freelance Web Developer (TALL-stack).

[Lawrence Whittaker @ListerLawrence]

As a new Farmer myself who bought our farm 4 years ago, I can’t tell you how accurate Clarkson’s Farm actually is!

We spent £3.5m buying our farm and subsequently in the past 4 years we’ve had to spend at least £527,000 on farm machinery and much, much more on running the farm. We’ve lost money every year since so far, and have had challenges or refusal from local authorities everytime we’ve tried to diversity, or do something to generate extra income. I cannot stress how difficult it is for farmers who have to rely on farming for their only income.

We don’t get any subsidies or BPS payments at all (because we’re new farmers) and the grant system might as well be in Greek! As a CEO and professional businessman of some note, I felt I could easily apply for the grants myself. I kid you not, you’ve never seen a more complicated form - for ANYTHING!

The farm we bought had been in the same family for 3 generations, but it was sold because it was getting tougher to support the farmers growing family and now I’ve been in it for 4 years I can see why.

It’s a crying shame that more and more food is going to be imported and more skills lost because, for some unknown reason, the government obviously don’t value farmers. Sad.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

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.

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@RupertLowe10 Defeatism doth butter no parsnips.

[BLAIM GAME @BLAIMGame]

“We asked 48m voters ‘What would make you vote for Labour again’

You said - Gordon Brown

If it’s up there I’ll give you the money myself”

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

If this tweet was a cup of tea...

[John Carter @johncarter_]

This is how you start a Friday👌🏻

[ConfessionsPete @ConfessionsPete]

Amazing footage of Dennis Waterman singing Rabbit with @chas_dave ..... in fairness, this is the stuff dreams are made of! @ontheslatepod

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@freekmurze You were great, thanks again Freek.

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@DanielNewns @DianaWebdev @freekmurze Thank you very much. See you there!

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@DanielNewns @DianaWebdev @freekmurze Seems closed. Can I just turn up?

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@freekmurze How did I not know this was on 🤔

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@mikey_nic0428 @RestoreBritain_ We're all not going to agree on everything, and that's absolutely fine. Nobody is going to get reported to the police in Restore Britain for disagreeing with policy.

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@filamentphp Wow — it's beautiful. 🙏🏻

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

And many of us are not racist

We are culturalists

We don't want our culture replaced by someone else's

For example, we don't like Female Genital Mutilation, Repression of Women, Child Marriage and the Right to Rape

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@mike56200 Mike, I started following you a few months back. Last week I ordered some bin bags from my council and I picked 10 bags of litter and plastic car parts from the grass verge along the road to my house. Cheers for the inspiration! #CLEANUPBRITAIN

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@mike56200 Go on, Mike! Happy birthday.

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@NJ_Timothy Thank you for all you do, Nick. You are the voice of millions.

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@RupertLowe10 Keep pushing Rupert, there are millions of us behind you. These figures are nauseating 🤮

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@calebporzio Can we have Islands in the Stream?

[John Carter @johncarter_]

@filamentphp Ye gods💛 — thank you to all contributors.