Maybe things can't only get better for Keir Starmer, as he is shamed with the latest polling just as the Labour conference begins

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Huh? You're pro rich people dodging tax?

Shit loads of multi-millionaires/billionaires were buying farmland as an asset so they didn't have to pay inheritance taxes out on it, too.

It's absolutely right that Labour started making them pay tax again (yes, again, they used to do it and family farms still thrived back before Thatcher gave a Tory-voting demographic a tax exception)

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    No, I’m pro-actual-farmer keeping their family farm in the family. People dodging taxes need to be taxed but catching real farmers in the crossfire is not good. It’s very bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    We had the more family run farms when we had the inheritance tax on them.

    Evidence:

    In England, farms under 100 hectares have halved in number in the last 60 years, and the number of small holdings has also plummeted from around 160,000 in 1950 to less than 30,000 (2020 figure

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