🗣️ "British farming won't go away."
Farmers from across the UK gathered today in Westminster in an eleventh-hour attempt to stop the family farm tax. ❌
Andrew Ward, one of the organisers of last year's major London protest, said: "We have organised today as a reminder to the Government and everybody really, to say, 'We have not gone away.'
"We need to let the Labour Government know that what they are doing to British agriculture is not acceptable."
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The requirement for exceptional agricultural accountants & solicitors just increased 10 fold. The devil will be in the detail as always but this looks like a very bad day for the agricultural industry as a whole.
If the asset is sold then I get it - it is being realised
But a farm that’s passed on isn’t a liquid asset - it is a food producing platform that probably needs to be that size to be viable
I honestly feel sick. The budget has knocked the stuffing out of us.
Protecting small farms? Nope, just small holdings.
The £1 million APR threshold does little to help the average family farm.
This has the potential to break up generations of hope & destroy communities forever.
This ‘custodians of the countryside’ thing is the latest bit of dog whistle culture wars nonsense on here about farmers and country people
Basically you see one thing you don’t like and it means we are all ignorant scum
Environmentalists let themselves down with this stuff
Walking home along the country lanes after a long day, I could smell woodsmoke and autumn in the air. The only sounds were the sheep and birds and my own footsteps, heavy with a quiet tiredness, knowing I'd earned a fire, a good book and a lot of cheese. #peakdistrict
The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years, almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s now one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions and has been seen by over 35 million visitors since 1961.
Matterdale Serengeti
Love this piece of land. It belongs to some friends, and we work together on nature restoration and grazing ecology.
That oak wood pasture is gonna come down to the cows in the future.
Kentmere Show today. Overall champion, Ethan Clark's Rough Fell; reserve, Adam Wear's Herdwick. Perfect result for this Westmorland corner of the Lake District #SheepOfTheDay
I was left in charge of a working farm of about 450 acres with calving cows and hundreds of sheep when I was 15 for a week
My parents weren’t terrible, they just got chance to go on their first holiday, and figured it was time I took responsibility - we do the same with my kids