- “Why Labour’s Budget is a ‘closure of the mines’ moment for British farming” – Farmers are united in outrage and disbelief over the Government’s tax grab on their livelihoods, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s farm tax makes no sense” – Some farming families will tighten their belts, but paying inheritance tax will be the final nail in the coffin for many, writes Jamie Blackett in the Spectator.
- “Rachel Reeves tells livid farmers it is ‘fair’ they pay more death tax” – The Chancellor defended her decision to reform the way death taxes affect farms amid fury from the industry and high-profile celebrities like Jeremy Clarkson and Kirsty Allsopp, according to the Mail.
- “How the Environment Secretary’s £420 wellies are fuelling a farmers’ revolt” – With the world of agriculture still reeling from Rachel Reeves’ Budget, the Environment Secretary’s expensive gumboots (a gift from Lord Alli) have added insult to injury, says the Telegraph.
- “Reeves may not have thought farmer tax raid through, says Ed Balls” – Ed Balls thinks the Chancellor hasn’t thought through her plan to change the inheritance tax rules for farmers, says the Telegraph.
- “Agri-avengers assemble! Farmers to hold major Westminster tax protest” – The National Farmers Union is to hold a major Westminster rally next month to protest about the IHT hike in the Budget, reports the Mail.
- “Musk tells Starmer: Your tax raid on farmers is wrong” – The tech billionaire has weighed in on the row over changes to the inheritance tax rules for farmers, according to the Telegraph.
- “Care homes and GPs face closure as tax hikes pose ‘existential threat’” – The employers’ national insurance increase could “fatally undermine” Labour’s promise to cut NHS waiting lists, reports the Times.
- “Darren Jones admits Budget will hit working people” – Rachel Reeves’ Budget is beginning to unravel, according to the Spectator’s Steerpike, following the Chief Secretary to the Treasury’s admission on Sky News that the Government has indeed raised taxes for working people.
- “Gold-plated public sector pensions spared from Labour’s inheritance tax raid” – The Chancellor has widened the gulf between lucrative state and not so lucrative private sector pensions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: Labour’s £975 million stealth tax blow for savers” – A freeze on the Isa allowance will push investors to move cash out of tax-free product, predicts the Telegraph.
- “Can Labour save its Budget?” – After the OBR’s assessment of the Budget was published on Wednesday, the cost of government borrowing started to rise, says Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “Rachel Reeves thought she was being clever: punishment has been swift” – The Chancellor’s tax-and-spend Budget has paved the way for an illusory boomlet to become a very real bust, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s plot to surrender Brexit is advancing” – Reeves is moving Britain’s economy away from U.S. dynamism towards full throated EU sluggishness, according to David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Ryanair blames Reeves’s ‘idiotic’ tax grab as it cuts thousands of flights” – Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary says the Chancellor has “no clue” how to deliver growth, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves’s £25 billion National Insurance raid hits foreign investment plans” – Budget tax rise for employers makes Britain “less attractive”, warn U.S. bosses in the Telegraph.
- “Britain has PTSD from Liz Truss’s budget, says Labour minister” – Darren Jones blames the market jitters over Rachel Reeves’ Budget on PTSD from Liz Truss’s mini-budget, according to the Times.
- “The economic blob that brought me down is shielding a failing Chancellor” – Getting rid of Rachel Reeves won’t be enough to unleash economic growth – the Quangocracy needs to be dismantled, says Liz Truss in the Telegraph.
- “Budget has finally killed the aspiration of Thatcherism” – Rachel Reeves’ Budget will come to be understood as the moment when the post-1979 consensus was abandoned, writes Dan Hannan in the Mail.
- “Reeves’s NI raid will cost surgery equivalent of five nurses salaries, GP reveals” – Dr. Richard West warns GP practices could be forced to shut up shop after National Insurance hike and increase in the National Living Wage, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lenders raise mortgage rates amid Budget market jitters” – Borrowers urged to secure deals quickly as sub-4% rates come under threat, says the Telegraph.
- “A government’s first Budget sets the tone for the whole Parliament – Reeves has flunked it” – “Wednesday’s statement reminded me of an earlier Chancellor – Denis Healey in 1974,” writes Charles Moore in his Telegraph column. “It might end equally disastrously this time.”
- “Rachel Theeves has taken aim at the U.K. economy” – “This Labour Budget has made me so angry that I scarcely know where to begin,” says Boris Johnson in the Mail. “But let’s start with the duplicity.”
- “Just saying the word ‘growth’ 31 times will not make it happen” – High tax, high spending and high borrowing are milestones on the road to chaos, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Tories overtake Labour in Sunak’s final poll” – It’s Rishi Sunak’s final week as Tory leader, but should he be asked to carry on? On Wednesday he charmed the Commons at PMQs before stealing Rachel Reeves’s thunder with a virtuoso Budget speech, reports the Spectator.
- “Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick vow to serve in each other’s shadow cabinet” – The winner of the Tory leadership contest will be announced today, according to the Telegraph, and the loser has vowed to serve in the winner’s Cabinet.
- “Tory is a dirty word, they must change their name, says election guru” – Sir Lynton Crosby, the election strategist known as the Wizard of Oz, says whoever wins the Conservative leadership contest needs to ditch the name ‘Tories’, reports the Times.
- “Those who govern Britain are increasingly unaccountable – it’s making them corrupt” – We still see ourselves as an honest nation – but we are far too soft on official wrongdoing, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Speech Tyranny in the U.K.?” In the National Review, Frederick Attenborough writes about Labour’s plans to ruin pubs, bars and restaurants to ruin customers’ lives by employing ‘banter bouncers’.
- “Labour-linked investors attempt to gatecrash sale of the Observer” – A consortium including Dale Vince is make a rival bid to buy the Observer, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump sues CBS for $10 billion over Kamala Harris editing scandal” – Network’s actions amounted to voter interference, claim lawyers for the former president, according to the Telegraph.
- “Joe Rogan exposed the J.D. Vance the liberal media don’t want you to see” – Over more than three free-wheeling hours, the Republican vice-presidential candidate showed he’s both bro and pro, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Identity Politics, for the Win!” – With an assist from Michelle Obama, the increasingly desperate New York Times tries to pull Kamala Harris across the finish line by stressing race and gender resentment, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Does liberal democracy end next week?” – Yes, our tribalist hysteria sucks, says Andrew Sullivan on his Substack. But don’t count liberalism out just yet.
- “Save democracy from informed citizens: vote censorship!” – Media Matters, the New York Times and the Washington Post have unleashed a joint effort to silence Kamala Harris’s critics, write Matt Taibbi and Paul Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicle.
- “Epstein and Trump placed bets on who’d sleep with Princess Diana” – Michael Wolff says “sex-obsessed” Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had a competition over who could bed the most women and included the famous royal as part of a wager, reports the Mail.
- “School charging $65,000 a year allows students to take day off if they’re stressed over election” – The Ethical Culture Fieldston School has been criticised for letting pupils stay at home without homework during “high-stakes and emotional time”, i.e., the US presidential election, says the Telegraph.
- “The liberal media’s distortion of Trump’s Liz Cheney comments exposes how panicked they are” – Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph says it’s as plain as day that Trump wasn’t calling for Liz Cheney to be shot in the face and the media meltdown about his comments shows how worried they are.
- “When anti-woke becomes pro-Trump” – Cathy Young in Persuasion says Trump is no friend of those who want to see the back of woke.
- “Kamala Harris ahead in enough swing states to win, Times poll says” – The Times’s final survey before the U.S. election shows the Democrat leading Donald Trump in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – enough to win the presidency.
- “Why it’s Trump’s election to lose” – As both campaigns ramp up the rhetoric in the closing days, some positive signs for Kamala Harris do not outweigh the Republican’s advantage, says Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
- “When will the U.S. election results be announced? The key timings” – The different states’ rules on counting votes means it could take several days before Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is announced president-elect – and the result may well be contested in any event, says the Times. It could be weeks before the contest is decided.
- “A tidal wave of immigration is swamping my country. It may not survive” – Everything that historically made Canada what it was is rapidly being destroyed, says Maxime Bernier in the Telegraph.
- “German drivers could be banned from reversing out of parking spaces under Green proposal” – The German Greens want to make it illegal to reverse out of a parking space in the hope of reducing accidents, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany’s gender madness is a worry for women everywhere” – Germany’s Self-Determination Act, which comes into effect today, makes it far easier for people to change gender, warns Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
- “Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has the perfect riposte to the anti-Israel bores” – At a solo gig in Melbourne, Thom Yorke was heckled by an audience member asking why he hasn’t spoken out about Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza. Yorke challenged him to a fight, which shut him up fast, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “BBC staff sign letter accusing broadcaster of pro-Israel bias” – “Dehumanising Palestinians” and failing to provide “fair and accurate” coverage were among claims in a letter from BBC staff to their bosses, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘People were shaking with fear’: The Jewish community centre besieged by pro-Palestine activists” – An event which included voices openly critical of Israel aroused fury among pro-Palestinian protestors, raising questions about their motives, reports the Telegraph.
- “Migrant who ‘threatened to kill’ Nigel Farage detained after arrival in U.K. in small-boat crossing” – The TikTok user who aggressively addressed the Reform U.K. leader saying “I want to marry your sister” has been detained by police after arriving here in a small boat, according to the Telegraph.
- “Son of first rioter to die in prison wants to know why he was jailed in first place” – Casey Lynch is demanding an investigation into the sentencing of his father Peter and questions why his previous suicide attempts were “not taken seriously”, says the Telegraph.
- “The Women’s Equality party deserves its fate” – A so-called women’s party that sided with biological men over women in fights over access to women’s spaces deserved to go tits up, says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Ireland’s new hate-crime law gives legal status to 72 genders” – Ireland has passed a new Hate Crime Act and it’s a complete dog’s breakfast, according to leading Irish gay and feminist commentators, says the Brussel’s Signal.
- “Scotland’s wokerati would rather rewrite children’s songs than fix the country” – Given the state of Scotland, you’d think people would have more important things to worry about than policing what toddlers sing, argues Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “The National Academy of Medicine is only inducting Covid commenters who were incorrect” – I recently looked through the last few years of inductees to the National Academy of Medicine and noticed they are all lockdown and vaccine zealots, says Dr Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “The climate scaremongers: A million more green jobs? Pull the other one, Mr. Miliband” – A million more green jobs by 2030? Paul Homewood in TCW – Defending Freedom isn’t convinced.
- “Teachers on school trips to Slavery Museum told they should acknowledge ‘white privilege’” – The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool has advised white teachers showing schoolchildren around that they should engage in ritual acts of self-flagellation, reports the Telegraph.
- “Woke London Labour council bans ‘Sir/Madam’ to start letters and formal emails” – Woke town hall bosses have banned staff from starting letters and formal emails with “Sir/Madam”, according to the Sun.
- “National Trust traditionalists rage at ‘activism’ and vote system” – A group of insurgent members are attempting to depoliticise the National Trust, but the wokesters in charge are engaging in electoral dirty tricks to preserve their power, reports the Times.
- “The phantom of polarisation” – Do people actually disagree that much? asks Ed West on his Substack.
- “In a civilised society, sin is not passed down through the generations” – Listen to Dominic Sandbrook tell Will Kingston on Fire at Will why he doesn’t think Britain should pay reparations for slavery.
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The Observer’s Book of Climate Change: A Handy Guide
The Self Licking Lollipop
The world’s largest CO2-capture plant captures 36,000 tons of CO2 every year
That equates to the annual C02 output of 7,800 cars
One million of these carbon capture plants will absorb mankind’s entire CO2 emissions.
These plants only require 1.5 MWh of electricity per ton of CO2 captured
One million of these plants will only consume double mankind’s current annual electricity consumption.
Brilliant!
Totally agree
Your starting to sound really human just lately, well done you’ve earned my uptick
“Britain has PTSD from Liz Truss’s budget, says Labour minister”
A stupid statement. If he believes it, then he is equally stupid.
In another bugbear of mine, PTSD is a condition that may be suffered by people who have experienced great or sustained trauma. We used to call it ‘shell shock’, a title that gives it some kind of scale. Current PTSD diagnoses seem excessive, and a catch-all for a range of much less significant disorders including someone not putting sugar in your coffee. It especially undermines members of our armed forces and emergency services who really do experience PTSD, but may find themselves in the queue for help behind someone who likes the label of PTSD sufferer, (perhaps our former youngest MP..?) but who shouldn’t really be there.
Spot on. Andrew Doyle told the story of a girl at a school he taught in whose parents sought and achieved a diagnosis of PTSD to get special consideration in school/exams. Her “trauma”? someone had cut a little bit of her hair off….. I weep for the genuine sufferers.
“This Labour Budget has made me so angry that I scarcely know where to begin,” says Boris Johnson in the Mail.
Who would have thought that a Prime Minister, given a large majority by the grace of the citizens, could act so strongly against the best interest of those very citizens. eh Boris.? In years gone by, we would have considered it treasonous.
Yes Boris can ‘do one’, he had his chance and blew it big time
I called Johnson out as traitor very early on in the Scamdemic and I haven’t changed my opinion since. He is also guilty of facilitating a number of unnecessary deaths. I cannot say what I really mean for fear of another DS reprimand.
“Rachel Reeves tells livid farmers it is ‘fair’ they pay more death tax”
Only if its ‘fair’ that we starve to death after seeing food costs rise by multiples. They seem to be unable to join two dots, food security, and vibrant and healthy farming communities to produce it. I am torn between ‘rank stupidity’, and ‘evil intent’.
I understand that Kamala Harris is interested in the idea of taxing unrealised capital gains, in effec,t for many farming families, what the Chancellor has done is to impose just such a Kamala Harris tax on UK farmers. To pay a tax on unrealised assets you either have to have enough other money to pay the tax or realise the asset. I guess it is how so many Stately Homes ended up in the National Trust?
It surely would not be beyond the wit of the Treasury to have drafted the farming inheritance tax rules so that no tax was payable on unrealised farmland assets where the land continued to be farmed. But they did not do that and it seems to me that it is driven by an insidious political dogma.
What might happen is that there will be some restructuring of farms (commercially) to reduce the risk of death tax payable on the death of an individual. More limited companies, perhaps, spread the ownership etc. Plenty of work for accountants there.
If it was so easy you could be a high paid tax consultant.
Rest assured the loopholes will have been closed.
Possibly but I think they’re too dim to think anything through, which is why despite VAT on private schools the word is that Eton could be in line to make £4.8 million by working within the existing regulations.
‘Energy’ ‘security’ are another two dots they can’t seam to join!
There is no intention to join these dots Dinger.
Ain’t that the truth
What does Labour know about fairness? Class envy is what drives it, not justice.
It is evil intent.
The principle behind this measure is to eradicate family farms within one generation. These farms will be bought up by the GMO scavengers and the rest, Monsanto, ABF, Pepsi and so on. The farming industry will be turned on its head and will become severely industrialised and the chemical pollution will eventually destroy the land.
Kneel, Reeves and Co are going hell for leather on Agenda 2030 and gifting this country to the global corporations is part of that Agenda.
We are in seriously, seriously deep shyte and things are going to get much worse and very quickly.
An hour or two ago there was a leftie moron on GB News having a go at “militant farming organisations” eh? Have to say I’m rapidly tiring of the constant nonsense being spouted by what seems to be the Parrot Party ie Labour MPs and the leftie [supply your own descriptive word of choice]
Were I a farmer, why should I not gift my farm (or sell it for £1) to my son as soon as he finishes agricultural college and joins the firm? As long as I live seven years, how would inheritance tax bite?
I’m guessing that from the moment the words fell from the fair Rachels lips, accountants and tax lawyers around the country were beginning their work of evasion strategies and loopholes.
That’s another thing about lefties. They like to tell us what to do, but seem incapable of understanding that if it isn’t in the citizens interests, we are going to disobey and find ways around her silly plan.
A bit pejorative about accountancy, perhaps?! Money to be made, though.
As I suggested just above, there will be some fees payable to accountants to sort it out, but yes, there could be ways of reducing the risk.
Another day in Clown world!
With the approaching Harris government in the US, if you don’t vote Reform in 2029, the west is lost, finished, wef has won, it will get its world (west) government!
The puppetitions are falling over themselves for a seat on wefs top table, the more outlandish and restrictive their laws,the more they are applauded.
God help us
The puppetitions (nice one Dinger) will be discarded once they have carried out their instructions.
“How the Environment Secretary’s £420 wellies are fuelling a farmers’ revolt”
Generally, we expect our politicians to be useless, and liars, and cheats, but my God, these lot are taking the absolute piss.
Remember Remember the 5th of November, reset treason and plot!
Another Democrat government and, as Fraser once said in dad’s army
“we’re all doomed”
Kier and Kamala!
“German drivers could be banned from reversing out of parking spaces under Green proposal”
‘To significantly reduce accidents’
Translation: to significantly reduce the amount of parking spaces!
Pi$s off the driver campaign
Cars have become bigger, but car parking spots haven’t, at least thats what it seems. I have long been an advocate of ‘herringbone’ car parks, where you drive in forwards, and drive out forwards. The offset achieved by cars being at an angle means there is plenty of room to get in and out. They aren’t quite so efficient in number of parking spots per hectare, so no one does it…
I am sure many other towns share a problem we suffer. Narrow car parking spaces mean drivers often occupy more than one while taking much longer to park and leave. This slows down traffic and reduces retail foot fall.
Is this part of a cunning plan or rank incompetence.
Close down the private farms and replace them with big Farm!
“Rachel Theeves has taken aim at the U.K. economy” – “This Labour Budget has made me so angry that I scarcely know where to begin?,” says Boris Johnson
Answer: When you were prime minister!
Nailed it!
“Ireland has passed a new Hate Crime Act and it’s a complete dog’s breakfast”
Please send pictures of an actual dogs breakfast to the reply section of this post!
It amazes me that Reeves wants to reward rich land speculators by effectively forcing farmers to sell off parts of their land to pay for her tax. They can afford to take the long view whereas a farmer needs to be ready for the next season.
“Tory is a dirty word, they must change their name, says election guru”
It always has been, its irish for “thief”
“Woke London Labour council bans ‘Sir/Madam’ to start letters and formal emails”
Oi You
Would that be better?
Right, that’s me, fry up time
Following the depressing appalling news that Tommy Robinson was moved yesterday to another prison where he might be in danger, some advice please on where best to contribute to his legal fees etc. helptommy.com run by his Urban Scoop has been recommended by Paul Thorpe; and also savetommy.com run by the Canadian Rebel News: or both.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/01/ed-balls-reeves-farmer-tax-raid-inheritance/
You hard faced barsteward. How bloody stupid do you think we are Mr Balls?
A staggering number of articles ranging from the interesting to the not particularly interesting, many of them locked behind a paywall. I think the DS editor is in need of an editor.
This is the latest news of Tommy Robinson.
ADMIN POST – TOMMY UPDATE
Tommy is now receiving and reading your emails so please do (using the information in the quoted post below) get in touch with him, show him your support.
He’s literally banged up in a tiny cell for what could be 14 days at least. Him receiving and reading your emails go a long way to pass the time of day.
Tommy has a limited number of replies he can make to any email, so please don’t expect one.
Fingers crossed we will have a specialist lawyer visit him on Monday to find out more and see what else we can do.
What we do know is that he cannot stay on the block and nor should he.
He’s a CIVIL prisoner after all.
Have you any thoughts on my query three away an hour ago on where best to contribute. Also concerns that any contribution will be frozen and not get through
I don’t think there have been changes to the info I posted a couple of days ago but I am checking and will let you know ASAP.
https://rebelgbp.nationbuilder.com/tommy_prison_legal_fund
Donations can be made here.
Thanks. I will be sending something, but probably a bit less than I would have done if completely sure it would get through straightaway
I think donations anywhere are always tainted with worries of “will it get there?”
Who knew that the British Legion apparently has millions in its bank accounts and needs to spend eighty thousand £££s per year on a DIE executive?
Sadly, all donations carry a degree of hit and hope.
“Son of first rioter to die in prison wants to know why he was jailed in first place”
Well done to Peter’s courageous son Casey Lynch for demanding a full explanation. I hope he and every other decent person will also demand a full explanation of why TEN MUSLIM RIOTERS who pleaded guilty to “violent disorder”, just like Peter Lynch, were all let off with SUSPENDED SENTENCES, shown gloating in the following video by their Muslim lawyer and aspiring Muslim politician Ahkmed Yakoob at Birmingham Crown Court, as Mogwai linked days ago:
David Atherton on X: “
Outrageous two-tier Justice
Lawyer Akhmed Yakoob is at Birmingham Crown Court defending 10 of his clients. They were charged with conspiracy to commit wounding & violent disorder. The conspiracy charges were dropped, but they pleaded guilty of violent disorder. Suspended https://t.co/BnvteMmWgI” / X
The missing detail: Meet Akhmed Yakoob’s ‘gang leader’ business partner
Who is Akhmed Yakoob? Controversial TikTok lawyer is an Andrew Tate fan and wannabe MP – Mirror Online