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The Peter McCormack Show

#024 - Gareth Wyn Jones - The War on Farms: Labour's Cruel Inheritance Tax

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Peter McCormack

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4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Gareth Wyn Jones is a Welsh hill farmer, television presenter, and social media personality known for advocating sustainable agriculture and raising awareness about farming challenges.

In this interview, we discuss the harsh realities facing British farmers. From inheritance tax burdens to supermarket domination, he explains why the farming industry is at breaking point. We also discuss the impact of government policies on food security, rural communities, and mental health and I learn about the challenges of sustainable farming and the global food supply chain. Gareth also shines a light on the fight to save British agriculture and protect local, seasonal food for future generations.


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0:00.0

Our job is to feed people affordably, healthily, with nutritionist food.

0:06.0

But we cannot keep going with these numpties in power here.

0:10.0

We have no idea of what's needed to be producing that food.

0:16.0

You know, 365 days, seven days a week, people that are out in the fields with their stock, you know.

0:22.6

And these fuckers then come after me, my father, and other family farms for inheritance tax.

0:29.6

That's our fucking money.

0:31.2

We've worked hard.

0:32.8

We've fucking missed holidays.

0:34.5

We've missed Christmas.

0:35.9

Me and my wife hadn't had the holiday for a week for 19 years,

0:39.1

for fucking 19 years.

0:40.7

Because we've saved, we've put money aside.

0:43.5

That's how we lived, hands out,

0:45.3

because everything was going back into the farm

0:48.1

and everything was going back to produce affordable food for the masses.

0:53.5

And it's not just me, it's every fucking farmer in the UK that's done that.

0:58.3

And then these people come here and try to take that money and take that land.

1:04.2

That's ours.

1:05.3

I'm telling you, it's not going to happen on our watch.

1:08.1

It's not going to happen.

1:14.8

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