Our farmers have a dilemma: protest as if they were French or Just Stop Oil nutters and bring the motorways to a standstill - or hope public support will be enough.
Sadly, it is unlikely that a little petitioning and lobbying their local (Labour) MP will be sufficient to reverse Rachel Reeves’s reckless, pig-ignorant class-warfare punishment of family farms.
The inheritance-tax take will wipe out most family farms in a generation and hand the countryside over to giant agriculture corporations and very rich London lawyers, destroying centuries of continuity and investment in the countryside.
Amazingly, the ‘Sunday Times’ is trying to help by exposing the ‘scandal’ that the Royal Family owns quite a lot of land all over the country. Who knew?
It’s not surprising the lefties at Channel 4 are staggered by the revelation that King William I conquered England in 1066 but it surprises me to discover a once-sensible newspaper is doing its bit to support this faux indignation as well.
The aim, no doubt in the service of this Government, is to whip up envy over land ownership by the Monarchy because it helps the campaign to deprive your average farmer of his rightful inheritance as well.
It’s all part of the egalitarian socialists’ campaign to reduce Britain to the lowest common denominator. Which brings me back to the farmers’ dilemma.
I would offer a suggestion or two but as doing so risks being jailed on some trumped-up charge by one of Starmer’s lackeys such as Melbourne Inman, the Recorder of Birmingham, it’s probably best just to sympathise with their dilemma.
