j (@JimmyThePie) profile picture
Joined January 2011
Andrew Lloyd Webber, speaking up for the lowly landowner who does fuck all actual farming. If I knew any lines from any of his awful musicals I would quote one. #C4News #skynews #FarmersProtest2024
"I farm just under 5,000 acres myself," Says multi-multimillionaire Lord Lloyd Webber, whose descendants will now presumably have to pay inheritance tax on it. The "ordinary farmers" are really out in force huh.
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I've come to the very quick conclusion that if Jeremy Clarkson was put out with the rubbish on any given day, the bin men would refuse to collect him. The man is a Grade A opportunist with the appeal of a slug sandwich. #C4News
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You might ask where was Clarkson during the years of Austerity and cuts? I will tell you where HE was. He was saying we could not afford the NHS and public sector workers should be shot dead for going on strike. That is where.
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I'm old enough to remember the miners'strike when the Tory Brexit supporting farmers were cheering on every single swing of the baton from Thatcher's storm troopers. So seriously .... they can fuck off.
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Fair play to @vicderbyshire for standing firm against the the boorish, intimidatory antics of a clearly rattled Jeremy Clarkson. “So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?” Charlatan.
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Next week I’m going to lead a march on nurses having to pay tax because they keep people alive and without them we all die. See how it works?
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Shocking to see farmers slowing down ambulances getting to hospital with their slow marches 😡
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Replying to @TiceRichard
Who remembers the miners strike when the Brexit supporting #farmers, who incidentally are mostly Tories were cheerleading for Thatcher's baton boys in blue as they rode their horses round battering the fuck out of anyone in sight. Fuck em And pay yer taxes #FarmersProtest2024
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Replying to @KirstieMAllsopp
The way in which this tax is applied could possibly be refined. However the logic and purpose behind it, to ensure the rich don’t use the “farm loophole”, is right. Why should people be entitled to buy up land in order to escape a tax that the rest of us have to pay?
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If you don’t see the sarcasm in this tweet you have no idea what it means for a farmer to take “a day off”.
So a whole load of farmers are taking a day off to come to London and protest against a new tax which will not impact them at all and only applies to “rich” farmers, so sweet of them. 🙄 #FarmersProtest
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Replying to @reformparty_uk
Is the one there that went to prison for beating up his girlfriend which reform knew but decided not to tell public
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The man who made things a whole lot more difficult for farmers, now has the cheek to cosplay as a farmer, while claiming to be on their side. Absolute charlatan.
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Replying to @TWBFarms
You won't be selling it. You will still be alive so IHT will not apply. Why don't you pass-down the land as soon as your kids are old enough? Or your kids could use the land as collateral to get a loan to pay their IHT. No need to sell.
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"I have bought a farm. There are many sensible reasons for this. Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The government doesn't get any of my money when I die."- Jeremy Clarkson.
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Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax. Without people like him, farmland would be more affordable for actual farmers.
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Just thinking about all those subsidised tractors driving passed people who don't own even that much and never will, complaining about having to pay HALF tax on anything over £3m which only 1.5% of people have. These farmers are completely delusional, and very greedy.
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Farmers have arrived in London and are parked up, ready to protest.
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Replying to @PeterABedford
Escept - they are only taxing private schools affecting around 7% of families - Tories had removing WFA in 2017 manifesto and Sunak wanted to do it in 2023 - not destabilising British farming but upsetting the tax dodging landowners - what do you think pays for the Tory mess a magic money tree or Truss fantasy economic policy which created the mess
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Mhairi Black, "I'm not understanding why there is so much heat around this" @MhairiBlack "Is this is a case of farmers working their knuckles down to the bone, living on the breadline, that happen to be sitting on assets" "Or is this like people like Jeremy Clarkson" "Because if you're asking the general public who can't afford to pay their bills, who can't get a doctors appointment, who can't get a house, to feel sorry for millionaires like Clarkson, I just don't think how it's feasible"
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