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# British Farmers Protest against Govt’s Inheritance Tax, Threatening Farming Livelihoods and Food Production

November 19, 2024 This article was posted by TLB Staff Spotlight, Tyranny, WORLD 1

#### ER Editor: The latest in the ‘UK government is a disaster’ saga, which from 2026 is slapping a 20% inheritance tax on barely-surviving farmers with farms worth a million pounds or more. Another attack on the UK’s food source. Today, British farmers are descending on London. Some tweets —

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## ‘Betrayed’ farmers take protest to London

### JENNY KUMAH and MALCOLM PRIOR for BBC

#### The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has accused the government of “betrayal” as thousands prepare to gather in London for a rally against the planned changes to inheritance tax rules for farms.

#### “To launch a policy this destructive without speaking to anyone involved in farming beggars belief,” NFU president Tom Bradshaw will say in his speech on Tuesday.

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The recent Budget announcement means that previously-exempt farms worth more than £1m would have to pay an inheritance tax of 20% – half the usual rate of 40% – from April 2026.

“This budget has just ripped the heart out of us because I know my son will not be able to pay the inheritance tax,” Gloucestershire livestock farmer David Barton told the BBC.

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Co-organiser Clive Bailye said thousands of farmers had registered for the protest rally

The NFU has gathered 1,800 of its members in London for a mass lobby of MPs.

A larger event, which organisers say more than 10,000 people have registered for, is being held at Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, and is expected to be addressed by speakers, including the farmer and broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson.

Co-organiser of that rally Staffordshire farmer Clive Bailye told the BBC that it was set up to be a peaceful demonstration and had the public’s support.

But he warned, in the future, there could be more direct action-style protests by some farmers.

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Livestock farmer David Barton said he feared he would have to sell the farm to a wealthy investor

“They are at a point now where they have nothing to lose and they have got the infrastructure behind them to be able to cause a lot of problems,” he explained.

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said that while farmers felt “betrayed,” the union did not condone direct action such as withholding food from supermarkets.

Among those attending Tuesday’s events is Gloucestershire livestock farmer David Barton, who has a 265-acre farm near Cirencester that has been in his family since 1913.

Mr Barton estimates his 400-cattle business is worth around £5m and the proposed changes to inheritance tax could see his son facing a £800,000 bill.

“This budget has just ripped the heart out of us because I know my son will not be able to pay the inheritance tax,” he said.

He is now considering gifting his estate, which means it would fall outside of inheritance tax if he does not die within seven years, but feared he was not in a financial position to stop working.

Mr Barton said the government’s attempts to target the wealthiest landowners who were investing in farms to avoid inheritance tax could see small farms like his ultimately sold off.

“The people they probably want to target will end up with my farm. That’s the reality – someone with a lot of money will buy this farm,” he said.

“For ministers to stand up and say this is good for farmers like me, for agriculture, they are chucking petrol onto a rather hot fire at the moment.”

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## ‘Fixing public services’

Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins said Labour had delivered a “budget of broken promises” that was “killing British farming”.

“Farmers can be asset rich, but cash poor,” she told the BBC’s Today Programme.

“They are not in it for the money – it’s a 365 day responsibility.”

#### The government has previously estimated just 500 of the UK’s wealthiest landowners would be affected by the change – a figure the Liberal Democrats called “utter rubbish”.

#### “The only way that people can pay the inheritance is get rid of the farm – so corporates buy it,” the party’s environment, food and rural affairs spokesperson Tim Farron told BBC Breakfast.

“It’s cruel, it’s unfair, it’s also incredibly stupid”.

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Featured image source, Keir Starmer: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/21/keir-starmer-claims-farming-dna-grew-home-counties/

Featured image source, poster: https://x.com/ukcolumn/status/1858541675582201957

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#### 1 Comment on British Farmers Protest against Govt’s Inheritance Tax, Threatening Farming Livelihoods and Food Production

1. This, as all the other attacks by the globalists (WEF/UN agendas) against farming, ranching and sane and traditional food production are part of their plans to destroy small and average farmers, destroy food production to impose their GMO, shit fake food and junk to the people they want to depopulate.

   Along with their manufactured wars, PLANDEMICS, climate scams and genocides, this is all the same agenda: UN agenda 2030/50 or great reset or whatever name they use these days.

   Our governments want our enslavement and death, they create fake narratives like the scamdemic, the climate hoax to force on us tyranny.

   No other solution than direct action.

   I am sure British farmers have seen how French or Dutch ones treat the thugs in uniform who work for the global elite and their puppet politicians.

   MANURE BY THE TONS ON THEIR BUILDINGS, VEHICLES AND ON 10 DOWNING STREET WHERE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN A PILE OF SHIT AND #TWOTIERKEIR.

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