Rachel Reeves wouldn’t know fairness if it slapped her around the face. All she knows is her vile, spite-filled, hateful ideology and farmers are the new Kulaks.
Rachel Reeves has slapped down farmers furious at Budget plans to hike inheritance tax on agricultural land, saying it was a ‘fair’ way of raising money.
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.
From April 2026, inheritance tax will be levied at an effective rate of 20 per cent on the value of business and agricultural assets over £1million in a shake up of Agricultural Property Relief (APR).
Spite and envy mixed with stupidity is a lethal mix. Where does this moronic woman think that food comes from? And when farmers are forced off the land, what then? Maybe the magic Stalin in the sky will bestow bounty on the populace. Jesus, but I knew they would be bad, but they have taken my breath away with not just their nasty, hateful ideology, but the viciousness and speed with which they are vandalising this country in the name of their communism, because that is what it is. Stalin would be proud of them.
I have despised pretty much all of the governments under which I have lived at one point or another, for governments are made up of politicians who are stupid and civil servants who are mendacious, but never have I hated one as much as I hate this one. I really, really would like to see them endure a Ceausescu moment, but that is merely a dream.
It’s another scheme to force land acquisition by the Sorosians/ Blackrock/ billy gates.
After all Labour / TTK have to pay kickback to their paymasters
As small independent farmers will have to sell land to pay the tax, mostly them making the farm too small to be economic, whos in poll position to buy land?
It’ll either be used for rewilding or big solar.
Either way, kulaks will be destroyed.
Are there likely to be legal loopholes? Could you sell your farm to your offspring for £50 maybe? Or, if that’s not possible could farmers pair up and sell their farms to each other’s kids?
As an aside, there is a song called Loophole by Garfunkel and Oates, look it up on You Tube, it’s very funny.
A colleague who once worked in NHS said without targets the money allocated will get sliced off by different managerial levels so pointless. The GPs want to be exempt from paying higher staff NI but as it’s a job to see them dont hey employ anyone. I work for a private care company, no doubt worried how they’ll pay us, or what can they get away with out paying us, to cover NI hike. They’ve already reduced overtime payments, our 50p above min wage has been reduced to 37p so see what else they can save. Of course they do make about £3mill profit each year, money that comes from tax payers.
If a government wants to reduce spending, privatise the health care system all these private providers are making a bigger profit for a lot less work than farmers.
A comment nicked from Samizdata:
“[Labour will] nationalise the bankrupt farms then manage them “for the good of all!” Now, obviously, this is a big job for MiniAg so this will have to be split regionally and then sub-divided into… Oh, let’s call them manors. Thank you Labour! You’ve re-invented the feudal system and serfdom!”