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Tim Bonner 🇺🇦
@CA_TimB
Countryside Alliance @CAupdates Chief Exec also fish, ducks, cricket, hounds, dogs & other country stuff tim-bonner(at)countryside-alliance.org
- Honestly, can nobody in government understand that hammering family farms will simply mean that MORE farmland will be sold to non-farmers 🤬Half of farmland sold last year went to non-farmers including wealthy individuals trying to avoid inheritance tax. It's right that tax changes will ensure everyone pays their fair share - and young farmers can realise their dream of buying their own farm. theguardian.com/environment/20…
- Two fundamental misunderstandings from the tax experts and lawyers jumping to the defence of the Chancellor’s changes to inheritance tax relief on agricultural property. The first is that assets equal wealth 🧵1/n
- Lovely clip of a Montagu’s Harrier which has been residing on an E Sussex shoot for the last few days
00:00 - The Treasury’s chief cheerleader @DanNeidle executing a rapid reverse ferret on the #FamilyFarmTax Who would have known that farmers might have understood the economics of farming? 🧵 1/nNew data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland. The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
- A precedent is set. The Chancellor is amending her budget policy on non-doms. We look forward to similar reconsideration of the impact of her budget on family farms.
- BBC suggesting that new rural backbenchers are getting hammered in their constituencies, Defra Ministers know the numbers are wrong and want changes to the #familyfarmtax, but that the Treasury won’t back down. As predicted in my response to the budget 🧵1/n
00:00 - Think this is my new favourite thing in the world. A map recording the field names in our parish produced by children from the primary school for the English Place Names Society survey of Hertfordshire in 1938
- Morrisons come out against the family farm tax. Is there anyone left in the country except Rachel Reeves who actually supports it? With reaction from @CAupdates @mometfisher
- “Part of the problem is that rural Britain has never escaped the cultural trappings of feudalism” I wondered how long it would be before we got some very clever metropolitan commentator telling us that farmers are thick, forelock tugging peasants.
- The government is coming for shotguns. Even though I predicted it I can’t quite believe Labour is already picking another fight with the countryside. It is concerned about the “risks associated with shotguns being kept in certificate holders’ own homes” 🧵 1/n
- Loads of lovely images of massively supported Boxing Day meets this year. Obvious how important so many hunts are to their local communities.Support for the annual Boxing Day meet in Ledbury is growing and it’s wonderful to see this tradition, that stretches back 170 years, is flourishing. 💪
00:00 - I’d be very happy to take you to the ‘green desert’ @BenGoldsmith and show you the pollen analysis that shows there haven’t been trees on the mid-Wales plateau since the last ice age. But are you interested in facts?Deforested Wales Deforested Madagascar
