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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Back to farmers and IHT, per GF's post...

My niece, after she attended farmers' finishing school at Cirencester (she did a Master's there, being the daughter of a nurse...), ended up marrying a farmer's son in Norfolk. The family have long run their farming interests as a company, so Niece is paid as Director of Diversification and gets a company car through the business.

Every day country folk...Dunno where the company accounts are held...

We are altering our will...
 
Mojo said:
Possibly, if you can get some snails living on it.

www.bbc.co.uk

Snails found in London offices in suspected tax avoidance scheme - BBC News

Boxes of snails are found in offices as firms pretend to be tax-exempt farms, a London council says.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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LOL.

But more seriously...

As I understand it, most UK suburban homes would have a small "back garden" of some sort, and many of those would have a vegetable patch. If some of those vegetables were sold or traded with neighbours, would that not be a "viable commercial farm" operation? Or is it not the size of the farm but who they vote for that matters...
 
Norman Alexander said:
LOL.

But more seriously...

As I understand it, most UK suburban homes would have a small "back garden" of some sort, and many of those would have a vegetable patch. If some of those vegetables were sold or traded with neighbours, would that not be a "viable commercial farm" operation? Or is it not the size of the farm but who they vote for that matters...
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Possibly based on the percentage of your income that comes from farming?
 
SteveAitch said:
Possibly based on the percentage of your income that comes from farming?
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So no exclusion for landowners with tenant farmers? Excellent. Might help the tenants buy some land for themselves too. Could be a problem for a certain farmer making more money from Amazon than produce though.
 
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P.J. Denyer said:
So no exclusion for landowners with tenant farmers? Excellent. Might help the tenants buy some land for themselves too. Could be a problem for a certain farmer making more money from Amazon than produce though.
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I was referring to the idea of claiming selling garden produce would be claimable as farming.

I suspect the legislation is specific about what actually counts. But not too specific - got to leave enough ambiguity to keep the lawyers in work.
 
SteveAitch said:
I was referring to the idea of claiming selling garden produce would be claimable as farming.

I suspect the legislation is specific about what actually counts. But not too specific - got to leave enough ambiguity to keep the lawyers in work.
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I thought you were proposing it as a possible solution.
 
MarkCorrigan said:
I like Davey, he's a decent human being and I like the Lid Dems.
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I agree, I support Labour, but they had no chance in my constituency which had been Tory for over 100 years. I 'wasted' my vote in previous elections because although the popular vote doesn't count for anything I wanted my support on the record and there was nothing better to realistically hope for. But last year the Lib Dems had a realistic chance of unseating the Tory and I'm pleased to have lent my vote to that end.

My hope against hope was that we might have had a Lab gov, Lib Dem opposition. You only have to look at PMQs to see what a difference that would have made. BadEnoch's questions are frankly infantile, purely political posturing and only aiming to provoke confrontation 'score points' or get a soundbite. I swear she gets most of her information from the Telegraph headlines and if Starmer found a way to turn cow ◊◊◊◊ into gold and petrol she'd complain it was raising the price of beef.

Davey is statesmanlike, surprisingly so considering his light hearted antics when campaigning, but he raises important issues on both the international and personal levels and does so in a serious way offering co-operation or opposition depending on if he thinks the PM is dealing with issues in the best way. If he was LotO I think we could have a Parliament that doesn't sound like a primary school playground and while a 'golden age' depends more on external factors than politicians I think we could be doing a lot better than we are now.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Such a patriot

'I'd rather my money was going to Trump's media than the BBC.'
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Seems it's the other way round, dearie. They are obviously paying you. Unless...did you think Trump media in the USA has the same license arrangement as the BBC in the UK?
Andy_Ross said:
@trussliz tells @NickFerrariLBC that the BBC is an 'affront to democracy' and an 'outrageous organisation'.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2004175294182138110
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And Trump media is not??
 
Norman Alexander said:
Seems it's the other way round, dearie. They are obviously paying you. Unless...did you think Trump media in the USA has the same license arrangement as the BBC in the UK?

And Trump media is not??
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The Christmas cake we ate this evening spent more time being drizzled daily with brandy than she spent in Number 10.

ETA: Although if you were to tell me she'd spent every day since being drizzled in brandy, I'd fail to come up with convincing evidence you were mistaken.
 
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P.J. Denyer said:
The Christmas cake we ate this evening spent more time being drizzled daily with brandy than she spent in Number 10.

ETA: Although if you were to tell me she'd spent every day since being drizzled in brandy, I'd fail to come up with convincing evidence you were mistaken.
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I think what's most disturbing is that she spent longer in Number 10 than the lifetime of a top quark.
 
Garrison said:
I think its meant to be a window.
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Yes I get that but, A, it looks like a picture on the wall and B, if you could see it through a relatively low ground floor window the star couldn't exactly be above the stable guiding them there, could it?

Oh, and C, it was a joke.
 
If I was terminal, my last wish would be for Farage to visit me, so I could tell him to ◊◊◊◊ right off before I die.
 
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