Keir Starmer's time is up

[Sue]

There was a woman on R4 earlier who was talking about a farmer who'd told her he didn't see any other option but to take his own life before this kicked in so his family wouldn't have to pay inheritance tax.

I mean I'm sorry he feels like that but seriously..?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The sort of people able to pass £3m+ to their offspring?

As iona points out, they're passing on a farm whose assets might be valued at something like that but if they are to keep the farm together, they don't have any of that as cash at all and they don't necessarily have a big income either.

Tax them to fuck if they sell up. That's how to do it equitably.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Aye and like I said a few posts back, the inheritance tax thing is getting a lot of attention atm but it's far from the only reason farmers are pissed off.

I feel like the job description for farmers is basically be pissed off unless you own half of East Anglia and have tenant farmers. I do have a lot of sympathy for them, it’s a hard job with no margins and it’s only going to get harder with the changing climate.

It’s just this tax isn’t particularly aimed at the bulk of them.

I’d also say for custodians of the land point that others make about them it would surely be nice if that meant they didn’t chase people off land quite so eagerly and forbid access

 

[_Russ_]

There was a woman on R4 earlier who was talking about a farmer who'd told her he didn't see any other option but to take his own life before this kicked in so his family wouldn't have to pay inheritance tax.

I mean I'm sorry he feels like that but seriously..?

Radio 4 has been broadcasting pure pro- gentelman farmer shite the last couple of days

 

[Serene]

There was a woman on R4 earlier who was talking about a farmer who'd told her he didn't see any other option but to take his own life before this kicked in so his family wouldn't have to pay inheritance tax.

I mean I'm sorry he feels like that but seriously..?

It shows the extent of the greed of the rich.