@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain I don't know the situation there but as a farmer I thikn it looks like a good idea. here in france farms are getting bigger and bigger . each time a farmer retire the land goes to another farm that just gets bigger instead of going to a young farmer who could start . small farms disappear quickly , soon every land will be own by very big farmers that don't work the land , they just own it and hire people to work it
young people who want to farm can't afford the land and evrything goes to people who already have too much land
young people who want to farm can't afford the land and evrything goes to people who already have too much land
@stephagain What worries me is they won't stop at the so-called gentlemen farmers.
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @stephagain It isn't even them they are going after, and Miliband has his eye on all that land for solar. City dicks, got no clue.
@stephagain @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain That’s exactly what this is going to make happen here, which is why it’s such a bad idea. The very big farmers have the business and property held in a trust, or by a company. This is going to hit the small farms that just about support a farmer and one or two of his adult children, who will have to sell land to the big farms (or developers) to pay the taxes when the farmer dies.
It’s also going to hit tenant farmers, who rent their land, because if the big farms do have to sell some land then it will be the rented land that they sell first.
@HebrideanHecate @stephagain They really don't have a fucking clue
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @HebrideanHecate I'm reading the article and it sounds reasonable to me
@stephagain @HebrideanHecate I don't trust anything this government says tbh
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @HebrideanHecate we have been farmers for 20 years , we own nothing, land is too expensive, only two kind of people can own land ,people who get it from their parents , or people who had a career before and start farming in their 40's. young people who want to start a farm and have to take a credit to buy all the material can't have another credit to buy the land too. land is crazy expensive. they just want to tax the richest farmers so they have to sell the land , sounds reasonable
@stephagain @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @HebrideanHecate it's who they sell it *to* that is potentially a problem. If big companies and mega rich farmers don't want to rent, they want giant fields with no hedgerows or stone walls for wildlife and to reduce diversity of crops, then it's bad. But there's more against small farmers than this change to inheritance tax.
So it's not only this that wants fixing.
So it's not only this that wants fixing.