4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | So how do you think people see farmers there? |
0:02.8 | I think a lot of people perceive us as rich. |
0:06.6 | We are very asset rich, we're very cash poor. |
0:09.6 | And if we have a bad year, most farms struggle to see a profit. |
0:13.9 | So, you know, we may look like we have an amazing lifestyle. |
0:17.6 | And we do have an amazing lifestyle, but're not rich nowhere near so how is this |
0:23.7 | going to affect you and your family uh well my family wouldn't afford to pay the inheritance tax |
0:29.4 | that we would have to pay on our farm so my dad can't afford to die now essentially britain in |
0:34.5 | twenty twenty four i yeah no seriously Thanks so much. You're welcome. |
0:39.2 | So can I ask where you guys have come from today, please? |
0:41.6 | Lancashire. Preston. Lancaster. Lancaster. And why have you come down today? |
0:49.3 | Well, primarily to protest against the inheritance tax, but also about, well, other things in the budget, |
0:57.7 | like the tax on pickups. |
0:59.6 | And I don't know quite how big a tax it's going to be, but they're going to put a tax on fertilizer as well. |
1:05.9 | And it's like the margins aren't that big as they are. |
1:08.9 | It's just making it hard even more |
1:11.4 | hard than it needs to be so. What's the general atmosphere in the farming community |
1:16.2 | like since the Labour Party's the budget? Everyone's just come together really. It's just |
1:20.3 | want to really fight against this inheritance tax mainly and really supporting each other. |
1:27.3 | That's what it's about. |
1:28.3 | Why do you think Kirstalama's doing this? |
1:30.3 | If you control the food, then you control the people. |
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