By our local demagoguery reporter:
Simon Goebbels
The UK’s hysterical right-wing press have been doing the best they can to promote the view that changes to inheritance tax rules announced in the Autumn Budget are part of an evil Labo*r plot to put UK farmers out of business, rather than an attempt to make rich opportunistic landowners pay a fairer share of tax.
We at the
So we’ll be combing right-wing media and the
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| Midway countryside - set to be destroyed by evil Labo*r government... |
Speak to rich landowners in the rural swathes of the “
This is completely unfair to rich people, of course.
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| Evil Labo*r Chancellor R*chel Re*ves |
Now farms will need to pay a tax rate of 20% on agricultural assets, both land and property, valued over £1million. The government has said the reforms will only affect 2,000 estates each year, with small farms unaffected.
But speaking to farm owners, it’s
clear that they believe the hysterical rubbish being written in the
Farmers are hard-working and asset-rich. They therefore tend to vote Conservative, read the Daily Telegraph and stick together in their own little echo chamber.
And thanks to the relentless hyperbole, misinformation and selective reporting by newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, the IHT changes are being presented as a “new tax” that seems to have sent a real shiver through the farming industry. Many of their number have become convinced that they will have to sell up, despite the fact that the vast majority of family farms will be unaffected.
One senses this is perceived as being as bad as foot and mouth, mad cow disease or the post-Brexit upheavals with talk already of the dire consequences on mental health.
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| Farmer Angus Stoatweed - facing bankruptcy |
The farm uses milking machines which cost £100,000 each while another unmanned craft worth £15,000 bowls up and down the byre's outer edges nudging back in place feed displaced by the cows' noses.
Mr. Stoatweed is now worried that his investment in technology has increased the value of his farm and therefore made him vulnerable under evil Chancellor’s Re*ves’s new IHT regime.
Unsubstantiated estimates by the anti-Labo*r propagandists of the Daily Telegraph suggest that Mr. Stoatweed’s inheritance tax bill could be as high as £800,000.
“I’ve not actually got my accountant to look at it all yet,” says Angus, “but the Daily Telegraph says that my family won’t be able to afford the IHT on the farm and will therefore have to sell up to housing developers. So it must be true.”
“I'm not saying I would sell up, but you can see it happening.”
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| Farmer Kevin Pratwold: growing concrete |
“For three generations, the Pratwolds have been buying up prime farmland, letting it go to rack and ruin, then selling it off for development purposes,” he said. “The IHT changes mean we’ll have to sell our land off even quicker.”
“Some people say to me, ‘where is the food going to come from, then?’” Mr Pratwold says. “There is so much global instability around food and we need to be producing as much of it as we can. It's a fragile world.”
“Of course, none of this is down to rich people buying up farmland as an investment rather than using it to seriously produce food.”
“So I always tell them I couldn’t care less. It’s all about the money as far as I’m concerned. Buy farms up, run them down, then sell them off. It made my grandfather rich, it made my father even richer, and it’s made me a multi-millioniare”.
As Mr. Pratwold says: “The best crop a farmer can plant is concrete. There's nothing that gets the same return as selling for development.”
“This will rip out the heart of Midway
and rural
Some of Midway’s landowners are even banding together and looking to stage a protest about the government’s IHT changes.
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| Mick Darkson: celebrity land investor and hobby farmer |
“This is going to cost me a
packet,” he said from his home in
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| Jim Bygum: Patriotic tax exile |
“It’s enough t’make a patriotic Englishman like me want t’sell up and move me assets abroad,” said Mr. Bygum. “Which is exactly what I did after I got t' Brexit I wanted. But thanks to those Labo*r boogers, now I might even have to pay IHT on’t 30,000 acres of bloody farmland I bought as a tax dodge.”
“This’ll rip out t’ heart of Midway and rural England, or at least t’ bits of it owned by UK tax exiles like me. I’m down t’ me last ten billion, me. Why should offshore billionaire business owners and their investment company chums play more tax, just to bail out t’ UK’s public services they looted under t’ Tories?”
We spoke to that well-known agricultural industry expert, Midway’s Claptout-On-Sea MP and owner of the Really Extreme Far-Out Rightwing Maniacs Party UK PLC ©™®, Niglet the Gargoyle, via Skype from his US residence.
He branded the IHT changes a “tax-raising ploy” and says is unlikely to raise the government the kind of tax they think it will because “they haven't done their homework”. |
| MP Gargoyle: stirring it up from the USA |
"So I've no doubt they'll listen to all of the old dog-whistle bollocks me and my right-wing chums will be spouting about the IHT changes, and then go and make a load of populist, anti-government noise just like I want them to".
“Even the government departments can't agree - they haven't even done the basics. Or that’s what I’m saying anyway, even though as usual I haven’t actually done any work to justify a counter argument”.
"Instead, I’ll be making outrageous claims that the IHT changes are all part of Labo*r’s sinister plan to ethnically cleanse the countryside of farmers to make way for immigrant towns.”
“It’s just the sort of thing idiot celebrities will parrot and it will guarantee lots of right-wing click-bait and shrieking headlines in the anti-government Tory press”, laughed Gargoyle.
“After all, there's no grievance too small that I won't try and make some political capital out of it. Right, my work here is done. It’s back to hanging around President Donald’s butt in the hope that he might remember my name. Bye-eee…”
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| Tristan Barbie-Smythe: aka Hardnutt |
“It’s all part of Labo*r’s sinister plan to ethnically cleanse the countryside of farmers to make way for immigrant towns,” said Barbie-Smthye. “Our patriotic supporters will be looking to throw their weight behind the planned protests of Midway’s farming community, along with stones, paving slabs and petrol bombs.”
“It’ll make for good headlines in the Tory tabloids when we see a few farmers getting dragged off to jail by the police. Then we can screech about “Two-Tier Ke*r” locking up protesters again, just for expressing their opinions by torching cars, beating up immigrants and throwing rocks at coppers,” said Barbie-Smythe from his parent’s holiday home in Mallorca.
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Chad Grindr wrote:
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The few that are affected are not poor people by any means. Tenant farmers work hard, but even they are protected by subsidies when like this year and last crops fail. The landowning farmers are constantly profiting from the value of their estates. I went to a meeting at an arable farm not so long ago and the old saying of ‘you never see a poor farmer’ rang true. The value of the cars alone (-23 plate Land Rovers) was over a million. The tax is typically 20% above £3million or so on a £4million estate - this will be 200k. Little sympathy as those with more money than most have the finances to squirrel away money and tax dodge which they will. But the Daily Mail is loving this, which is (this comment has been edited as it does not agree with our editorial policy – Ed.).
Kent’s Greatest Prick Ever replied:
Why shouldn’t rich people drive
nice cars? They are probably a genuine business expense. Your bitter,
class-driven envy of your betters is typical of the ignorant, unwashed
socialists who have now taken control of this country. Briefly though, I’m
sure.
Fair Dues wrote:
If you want decent public services then somebody has to pay!
This loophole has been exploited for years by the rich, and needed to be
closed. There are mitigations in place - not least 10 years to pay! And I do
hope these protestors blocking roads will be treated in the same way as the
Just Stop Oil Protestors - with healthy stretches in prison! If not then we do
have "two tier justice" - in favour of the rich who are orchestrating
these fake protests! It’s all (this
comment has been edited as it does not agree with our editorial policy – Ed.)
Yu Rong replied:
The correct thing to do is clamp
down on benefit scroungers, not penalise the working billionaire by shutting
down legal methods of reducing tax liabilities - unless your objective is to
subjugate the masses and destroy the great British entrepreneurial classes, of
course.
Not A Tory wrote:
Good heavens, imagine millionaires having to contribute to
society! Farmers NEVER complain about government when it comes to subsidies and
grants. Tax breaks galore and then massive hissy fits like this when they might
have to pay something back. Here's a tip, if you don't like it, do your farming
in another country and (this comment has
been edited as it does not agree with our editorial policy – Ed.).
Firefly wrote:
Putting things another way. Oh no, millionaires can't avoid
tax anymore. Cry me a river.
HoHoHoBoJo wrote:
The more I read, including hysterical comments from rich
landowners, the more I'm convinced this is a right and fair policy, one that is
(this comment has been edited as it does
not agree with our editorial policy – Ed.).
Grey Mondeo Man wrote:
Yep, doctors, nurses, teachers and so on are all a disgrace
when they strike for slightly better pay. But farmers need our sympathy when
protesting against paying IHT on farms worth over £3m Only the richest 1.5% of
farmers will pay half IHT spread over 10 years.
You don't have to be a genius to work out that this is a protest
organised by wealthy landowners who (this
comment has been edited as it does not agree with our editorial policy – Ed.)
Neil Barse replied:
A typically stupid reply from the
typically stupid remoaning socialist La**or-supporting woke snowflake that is
Grey
Chad Grindr wrote:
I see the St*rmer-loving communist leftist loons are out in
force today. I find it depressing that the
Tornado Watcher replied:
So anyone who disagrees with you
must be silenced, yes? Free speech is a one-way street for you right-wingers,
isn’t it? For once, it seems that a lot of
Neil Barse replied:
At last Tornado Watcher confesses
the truth about themselves before slinking away to stew in his own UK-hating
demented leftist bile. A bitter lonely insidious individual who's mental
instability is getting worse by the day, due to the fact they fail to annoy anyone
with their constant sea-lioning and self-contradictory posting. Completely
expected every time Tornado Watcher posts on here. As usual, I win the argument
by my relentlessly logical and calm, reasoned, factual responses, unlike the
hate-filled rants of far-leftist Guardian-reading pillocks like Tornado Watcher.
Tornado Watcher replied:
You and your fellow right-wing
commentators here seldom offer anything but abuse when the arguments go against
you. THAT is the most depressing thing about this forum.
Neil Barse replied:
Typical lies and whataboutery from
a bitter and twisted leftist Labo*r loser. I think you leftists must be
mentally ill to constantly come out with the lies and whataboutery the way you
do. And what about Labo*r’s plans to compulsory purchase all
Super Small Dick
wrote:
Think about it - Labo*r have a secret plan regarding farm
land. The families can't afford to keep it running because of higher taxes; it
becomes near on impossible to keep going so what do they have to do? Sell the
land. Then what happens? Along comes a developer to build the millions of
houses that the Government insists we need to house all of the millions of illegal
immigrants St*rmer is letting in.
Aunt Nartsie wrote:
I thought the last Government was bad enough, but this lot I
despise.
Tornado Watcher replied:
Because you lost your £100 winter
fuel allowance? Since Labo*r are already unpopular with pensions, they should
take the opportunity to scrap the ridiculously expensive triple lock as well.
Aunt Nartsie replied:
I think you will find most of the
country despises them.
Tornado Watcher replied:
Another Tory who believes that
their own views represent those of everyone in the country, rather than just the echo chamber of Daily Mail/Telegraph/Express readers.
Tornado Watcher wrote:
Farmers have been told by fake farmers like Jeremy Clarkson
and James Dyson (who buy farmland to avoid taxes) and the Daily Heil that they
should be angry. So they are angry. The same people who by majority voted for
Brexit even though they were one of the groups most harmed by the vote. No
sympathy. It’s just a load of whining by the self-entitled rich. For too long,
Tories have framed “tax” as a burden rather than a civic duty to help those
less fortunate than (this comment has
been edited as it does not agree with our editorial policy – Ed.)
Grey Mondeo Man replied:
And still no verified concrete
examples of what the farmers are whining about. Why don't a few of them open
their books and give us the evidence? I mean they must have it. Mustn't they?
Kent’s Greatest Prick Ever replied:
Why should rich landowners have to
justify their finances to unwashed socialist class warriors such as yourself?
If we say something is true, then it is. The word of rich people such as myself
has long been the law of this land. We do not need to provide “evidence” to
arrogant upstarts like you. Allowing the plebeian classes to question the
feelings and assertions of their betters is the path to anarchy and madness, a
path that St*rmer and his communist storm-troopers seem to be sending us down.
Grey Mondeo Man replied:
I just want to see some real
examples from real farms and real people about what the IHT changes will really
mean. Many suspect that this is just nonsense and trouble for the government
being stirred up by a bunch of Tory-loving landowners and their chums in the
Tory press. Persuade me I'm wrong. With facts.
Kent’s Greatest Prick Ever replied:
I have my own rage, feelings and
instincts, all of which are verified every day by the Daily Telegraph. Why
would I need anything else, you stupid little boy?
Chad Grindr wrote:
At the end of the day, this Labo*r government is making our
lives worse right now - more expensive, and the morale of most of the country
is very low with little to look forward to. We need some good news for the
majority of people, not just public sector workers, illegal immigrants and
benefit claimants. At least under the Tories, Boris used to tell us that
everything was great, we all had more money in our pockets and the country was
growing economically. That’s a much nicer story than the gloom and doom of the
socialist miserablists now in charge - unless you prefer the lefty semantics
calculator!!
Pseudocreem 2 wrote:
Comrades farmers are working people and as such were
promised that their taxes would not rise by your chancellor Re*ves Labo*r used
lies and disinformation to trick their way into power and have been attacking UK
population ever since by doing things they had promised not to I cannot think
of any other government in world which has passed legislation which they know
will kill most vulnerable people in society like pensioners who will die if
they withdrew the Winter Fuel Allowance now they are attacking poor millionaire
farmers and billionaire rentier landowners like my wealthy friends from beloved
Russia. Who will be next? The rest of the world is looking on with horror as
political opponents and journalists in UK are thrown in jail for social media
posts and journalists are threatened by St*rmer and bully boys of his regime what
UK needs is fairness and freedom of true democracy as offered in homeland by
dear Mr. Putin and his patriotic rich oligarch friends rather than gangster
regime of Ke*r St*rmer.
Grey Mondeo Man replied:
I know disinformation is your job
and your employers have to be congratulated for their efforts over Brexit and
the recent presidential election in the
Pseudocreem 2 replied:
Comrade it is you who constantly
lies about things which are obviously true and can easily be checked by looking
on X. There have been many thousands of people jailed recently in
Grey Mondeo Man replied:
People have been jailed for
inciting violence and rioting on social media, not because they are
"political opponents" as you claim. X can hardly be regarded as a source of factual information these days, it being mostly populated by people like you and your Russian disinformation co-workers these days. Inciting riots and race hatred is
against the law in this country, although I understand it is legal in
And we don't use the word “comrade” in the
Pseudocreem 2 replied:
I am listening to someone on Russia
Today who comparing St*rmer's regime with Nazi Germany and it is valid
comparison regardless of what you think comrade most people in UK feel
threatened and marginalised in St*rmer's Britain where his two tier policing
and politicised judiciary will allow and encourage pro Palestinian protests
while clamping down on political protestors for other causes all while
harassing political opponents and journalists etc who they see as hostile. Can
you think of any other democratic regime since the Nazis who passed legislation
knowing it would lead to the deaths of some of most vulnerable people in
society?
Grey Mondeo Man replied:
Just let me
repeat, we only jail people for breaking the law in this country, unlike your
homeland.
Ancient Arseolien replied:
Comrade it pitiful to be watching
you desperately try to deflect and obfuscate as the appalling reality of Labo*r
government becomes increasingly clear if this cabal of champagne socialists and
far left fascists last full term they won't see second one as we have control
of UK media and will make sure REFORM and Tory party merge so will be friendly
to Mr. Putin and his patriotic rich oligarch friends rather than fascist Nazi
gangster regime of Ke*r St*rmer who is enemy of fairness and freedom of true
democracy unlike Dear Mr. Putin.
Pseudocreem 2
wrote:
Comrades, dear Mr. Putin says for you to vote REFORM in the
next elections because all parties are corrupt unlike Russian oligarch money
which is good for UK, which will be good news for all Russian internet trolls
and dear Mr. Putin.