Farmers have been told by Rachel Reeves that they must pay inheritance tax to fund the NHS, despite mass protests planned for Tuesday and warnings the tax’s impact has been massively underestimated. The Telegraph has more.
Rachel Reeves has refused to back down over her controversial plan to impose inheritance tax on farms in the face of warnings that it could threaten food security, end the tradition of family farms and create a mental health crisis.
Thousands of farmers are expected to descend on Westminster on Tuesday to protest against the changes, under which farms worth more than £1 million will be eligible for 20% inheritance tax, having previously been exempt.
The proposals are at the heart of a growing row over Ms. Reeves’s Budget, and on Monday a Labour Peer became the first to publicly criticise the Government over the plan. Baroness Mallalieu, a Labour Peer since 1991, said her party had become too “urban” to understand the impact of the tax raid.
But Ms. Reeves defended the policy on Monday, repeating that the Government had “taken difficult decisions” to fill funding gaps.
“The reforms to agricultural property relief ensure that wealthier estates and the most valuable farms pay their fair share to invest in our schools and health services that farmers and families in rural communities rely on,” she said in a joint statement with Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary.
Rural Labour MPs, many at risk of losing their seats over the policy, will be lobbied by hundreds of farmers at a separate event organised by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) in Parliament on Tuesday.
Mr. Reed met Tom Bradshaw, the head of the NFU, on Monday night as the Government seeks to calm farmers’ anger over the tax raid.
Mr. Bradshaw will tell farmers on Tuesday that the policy is “nothing short of a stab in the back”.
He will say: “To launch a policy this destructive without speaking to anyone involved in farming beggars belief. And let us remember that they promised not to do this when they were wooing the rural vote.”
Before the election, Mr. Reed repeatedly said the Government had no plans to change agricultural property relief, which was introduced in 1992.
On Monday, Keir Starmer repeated the Government’s claim that “the vast majority of farms and farmers will not be affected at all”, despite warnings that the Treasury has vastly underestimated the impact.
The NFU has warned that two-thirds of farms will be hit by the tax, compared to Government estimates that just 27% would be forced to pay.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: In the Spectator, dairy farmer Jamie Blackett says the protests “have the potential to turn into a full French-style revolt“. “This is existential for many farmers, and they will go to any lengths to stop their farms being broken up when they die.”
Stop Press 2: Elon Musk has tweeted that the tax plans suggest “Britain is going full Stalin”, reacting to an Observer article claiming farmers had hoarded land for too long. Jeremy Clarkson thanked Musk in reply, accompanying it with an image of himself with a pitchfork.
Stop Press 3: Clarkson criticises Victoria Derbyshire for “trotting out” Rachel Reeves’ claim that her changes to inheritance tax won’t affect farmers, accusing the BBC of being a “mouthpiece of this infernal government”.
Jeremy Clarkson takes aim at Labour and then rips into the BBC for being a 'mouthpiece of this infernal government'.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) November 19, 2024
He does NOT hold back!pic.twitter.com/yG1enqBcqR
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Oh I do enjoy a “Gotcha!”
To which of course can be appended, “you lying barsteward.”
Most regular readers will be aware of the below, but he was instrumental in the development of the PCR test. Just a coincidence that he was the one contacted and able to develop it so quickly.
“On 23 January 2020, Drosten, along with other virologists in Europe and Hong Kong, published a workflow of a real-time PCR (RT-PCR) diagnostic test,[9] which was accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and which sent test kits to affected regions.[10]
On 19 February 2020, Drosten, along with 26 other scientists, published the Lancet letter in support of scientists and medical professionals in China fighting the outbreak and condemning theories suggesting that the virus does not have a natural origin, which it referred to as “conspiracy theories.”[11]
On 17 March 2020, Drosten was appointed to the European Commission’s advisory panel on COVID-19, co-chaired by EC President Ursula von der Leyen and ECHSF Stella Kyriakides.[12][13] On 23 March 2020, The Guardian described Drosten as “the [German] country’s real face of the coronavirus crisis”, and also noted that the Süddeutsche Zeitung had described Drosten as “the nation’s corona-explainer-in-chief”.[1] He was a counterpart to Lothar Wieler, head of the State’s Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, in consulting to German federal and state authorities.[1]”
If Drosten wasn’t in on the scam from the start I’d be surprised because TPTB knew that the PCR test did not provide evidence of infection with the C1984 which was why Kary Mullis unfortunately died, so they had to find someone willing to oblige them. Queue ‘loadsa money.’
Furthermore, Bliar has always referred to the PCR test as “the gold standard.”
I rest my case.
Bliar is right in there !
…and no doubt a pure coincidence that before 2020 Germany’s bioNTech was a relatively little-known biotechnology company. That all changed when Covid-19 arrived, and they partnered with Pfizer…!!
Didn’t Drosten adapt the PCR test to test for Covid befor Covid 19 even existed?
If anyone needs someone to talk to we meet every Sunday.
Stand in the Park Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Make friends & keep sane
From 1st January 2023
Elms Field (near Everyman Cinema and play area)
Wokingham RG40 2FE
I hope eugyppius reads this – he’s a great fan of Drosten and takes an especial interest in his shenanigans.
that’s another one lying under oath by claiming that he didn’t have any interest to direct investigation away from possible lab leak. Hope he joins Fauci in jail (highly unlikely though)
Wow, the plot thickens.
Someone needs to put together a FBI style Most Wanted list on behalf of humanity. Ultimately this is just a gigantic organised crime. We don’t need governments to help us do this (all themselves culpable), this action should be undertaken by citizens all over the world. Let’s start a global petition. Tens of millions would sign it.
It does look like the whole thing is embedded in the EU & USA governments ! & it’s becoming more obvious by the hour !