The left-wing Labor government's plan to impose inheritance tax on British farmers is nothing more than a class war ploy to free up land to build homes for immigrants, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed. .
Like many family farms, Chancellor Keir Starmer's government's plans to impose a 20 per cent tax on inherited farming assets over £1m have left families wondering about the future of their ability to maintain their inheritance. caused widespread concern.
As a result of soaring land prices, a significant number of small-scale farmers, many of whom simply cut back on their finances, may be forced out of business, unable to pass on their craft to the next generation. There is sex.
While many are characterizing the move as a simple money grab by the recently formed left-wing government, Clacton MP Nigel Farage has revealed that the government is in fact trying to clear the British countryside for housing projects. He suggested that he might be more interested in the land to pave the way. Because of the ever-growing immigrant population.
“There's no question about it now. Mass immigration means we have to build a new house every two minutes in this country. If we didn't give it seven years ago, when someone dies, There are better places to get it than farmers and farmers who have to sell,” Mr Farage said.
“Everything is a most abhorrent attack. Remember, our landscape is one of the most beautiful in the world. The reason is the agricultural practices we have practiced for centuries. All are under direct threat,” he warned.
Reform Britain will suffer the most from the ultimate impact of Labour's tax plans, although farmland prices in the UK may have been artificially inflated by wealthy people seeking to avoid inheritance tax by taking advantage of farm tax breaks. claimed to be a struggling farmer.
“A 200-acre farm, whatever it is, is now worth millions of dollars, but they can still work hard and be lucky to make $30 or $50 a year off it. Labor's plans mean farmland will have to be sold and family farms will be broken up.
Mr Farage said the left-wing policies were a “class war” aimed at making room for immigration and retaliating against former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's move to crush coal miners' unions. While the United Kingdom demonstrations of the 1980s were broadly left-wing in character, agricultural protests across Europe in the past few years have skewed to the right, often against globalist trade deals and burdensome environmental regulations.
Mr Farage cited comments from a former adviser to former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said this week that Mr Thatcher, who had seen often violent clashes between trade unions and police, had attacked miners. Mr Starmer publicly suggested that he take the same hard-line approach to farmers.
“Personally, I'm in favor of doing something for farmers who want to take to the streets. We should do for them what Margaret Thatcher did for miners. You can do it… there are industries you can do without,” former Labor Party adviser John McTernan told GB News on Monday.
In a statement provided to Breitbart London, Reform MP Rupert Lowe responded: “The agriculture sector employs nearly 500,000 people and it would be wrong to do anything other than support it, an industry that is absolutely essential to us.
“To say that John McTernan's comments are disgusting would be an understatement. Such people should not have access to power.”
Mr Lowe said Reform UK was “fully committed” to the prosperity and preservation of rural Britain, declaring: “An attack on agriculture is an attack on Britain”. Our farmers are the backbone of this country and Labor's disregard for their livelihoods is nothing short of shameful. ”
