@Jes_Squirrell@rachelreeves@Keir_Starmer Surely running a holiday cottage business is not farming? Why should some landlords get a IHT break and others not? Great business sure but should be same for all buy to let / Air BnB owners for those assets?
Luke Littler winning darts last night reminded me of something I saw in the derelict RAF Ibsley control tower.
The photo shows holes in the wall surrounding the space where a dartboard was once hung, upon which airmen of many nationalities played darts. (Visit with permission).
New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.
The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
@bridgetwhipsin@NFUtweets It’s still state aid which is more than most businesses or individuals in other areas get, and who them have to pay inheritance tax. The tax is unfair but everyone should be exempt or no one.
Never mind the paltry Section 106 payments they get away with if they grow houses.
🚨 BREAKING: Russia has just sentenced five climate activists to a whopping 21 years in prison for a PEACEFUL protest.
Oh, wait, did we say Russia? We meant the UK.
“How shall we start the campaign?”
“Speech in the rain whilst Steve Bray plays the anthem that reminds people of Labour’s 1997 landslide.”
“OK. And in the evening?”
“Kick Sky out of your launch event but make sure they film it before you cut the line.”