The Truth About The Farmer Protest
"Britain Has Gone Full Stalin!"
"Britain Has Gone Full Stalin", or so says Elon Musk. He was referring to the Labour Government’s new tax assault on British farmers.
In this video we tell you what's really going on with the new tax introduced in Rachel Reeves' 2024 Budget, and how it will affect farmers. We go down to Whitehall to hear from the farmers themselves and politicians like Rupert Lowe.
Whilst Jeremy Clarkson and Andrew Lloyd-Webber have become champions of the good working farmers, liberal mainstream elites deride them.
We take a broader look a the worldwide attack on farmers and the socialist, globalist, technocratic philosophies behind them.
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I'm a tenant in a small farm cottage. If this is not stopped I might loose my home of over 30years, as my Farmer Landlord may have to sell the farm to pay this incompetent Labour government. I did not vote for this lot along with millions of others. They have to GO!
It looks like the Treasury and the OBR are about to end up with egg on their faces. It appears that the Treasury figures which the OBR worked on included small holdings and non-productive land, essentially categorising a huge number of rural properties as family farms, when they really weren't.
As a general rule, and with a few notable exceptions, if the property is under 100 acres of productive land, it's not really a family farm. This made it look as though a far smaller percentage of the small farms that feed the nation would be affected than actually will be. The Treasury data was wrong. Garbage in. Garbage Out.
The DEFRA figures are more accurate, reflecting their longer working relationship with, and more detailed knowledge of, the farming sector. Their data shows that only 34% of farms will fall below the threshold. I'm surprised the figure is even that high- between the farm buildings and land which generally fall under APR rather than BPR, I would have thought a married couples new APR allowance really wouldn't cover the value of the assets.
I'm betting there are a huge number of people who've bought a farmhouse and 20 acres and lease the 20 acres to a tenant who already farms another farm.