Rachel Reeves was going after dukes. She may kill farming instead
www.thetimes.com
I rarely write angry. But today I’m forced to make an exception because Rachel Reeves announced in her budget that farmland is no longer exempt from inheritance tax. And that could be the last straw
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The original was posted on /r/thegrandtour by /u/FlipStig1 on 2024-11-04 17:21:21+00:00.

Jeremy Clarkson puts on his farming hat while analyzing what’s going on in UK politics (the annual government budget was recently revealed). The context is that inheritance tax now applies to farmland. This part stood out for me:

“It’s hard to get into the mind of a socialist because you spend hours wandering around in a fog of idiocy, bumping only occasionally into some half-baked opinion that was formed in the school debating society. But I think I understand why they’ve changed the rules on agricultural inheritance.”

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