Camila Tominey GB news

I doubt the govt will agree to this too.

I’m torn about the whole farmer v govt on Inheritance Tax.

I don’t really understand how they were totally exempt even though residential property was involved.

I can see both sides of the argument.

Shinamae GB NEWS has now got higher ratings than BBC and Sky News for their news programmes. 👏👏

Cossy

I doubt the govt will agree to this too.

I’m torn about the whole farmer v govt on Inheritance Tax.

I don’t really understand how they were totally exempt even though residential property was involved.

I can see both sides of the argument.

The residential property is probably of least value on a farm.

Primrose53

Shinamae GB NEWS has now got higher ratings than BBC and Sky News for their news programmes. 👏👏

Excellent! Sorry pearl clutchers🤣

Re G B News------do you know what populism is? That news agency makes money from big business. Farming is mostly big business.

Will she host more, one for those who desperately need the lost WFA, one for the small businesses that won’t cope with the NI contribution increase? I’m sure there are others who have a point of view on government changes.

Primrose53

Shinamae GB NEWS has now got higher ratings than BBC and Sky News for their news programmes. 👏👏

This is from April this year. GB News had a long, long way to go to catch up with the established channels
redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/who-watches-gb-news/

Is there a link to your source?

I thought Camilla Tominey was very good this morning; clear and succinct.
The Farming community is different and it is difficult to equate it with other businesses. I don't know how it compares with businesses such as family-run hotels, for example.

I stand with the farmers. I’m not a farmer. I want as much as possible of our food to be produced in this country, by our farmers, not by big conglomerates.
Might be a feeble hope.

I didn’t see the Camilla Tominey programme this morning, so not influenced by that. I was watching SkyNews.

Shinamae

I know that some of you will be reaching for your smelling salts at the mention of GB news but…
Camilla was interviewing a farmer this morning and he was put ting the farmers point across and she offered to host a debate between farmers and Starmer and Rachel Reeves
Doubt They’ll take it up but the offer is there..

I think inviting the Labour Party to participate in a discussion with farmers and others concerned with the land and food would be relevant on any news outlet.

The thread on the Farmers has shown just how complex are the issues of land costs/ownership/farms/food costs/supermarkets driving costs down/ the public changing food tastes and buying hug amounts of imported out of season food and so on.

It's up to the Labour Party to send the person they deem most involved and knowledgeable with this gamut of issues for a really productive discussion.

Isnt that what's really valuable?

Unless its just grandstanding as in "GB news says Starmer refuses" blah blah which is just disingenuous..

Primrose53

Shinamae GB NEWS has now got higher ratings than BBC and Sky News for their news programmes. 👏👏

www.statista.com/statistics/266781/leading-tv-news-channels-sources-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/

8% of the total audience for news channels.

eazybee

I thought Camilla Tominey was very good this morning; clear and succinct.
The Farming community is different and it is difficult to equate it with other businesses. I don't know how it compares with businesses such as family-run hotels, for example.

Personally, is it any different to any other family business?? Hotels are asset rich and cash poor, and I’m sure that there are other family run businesses.

A friend of mine has a husband, separated but still married, whose mother owned a large arable farm, some of which hadn’t been farmed for years, a very large farmhouse and at least two other residences in her land. She sadly died late last year. No child is going to take over the farm, no animals to sell or slaughter and three siblings inheritating the lot, much of which will be sold on after probate. Some of the land has in principle planning permission, tripling the value. Is this fair? No inheritance tax? Possibly capital gains, possibly not!

I do however empathise with farmers in terms of how much they receive for their produce, particularly compared to how much we end up paying for it.

I too would prefer to buy locally sourced produce.

I still cannot fathom why some of them voted to leave Brexit.

Also one reason for the change is (allegedly) to stop famous rich people buying farms and playing at farming, to avoid inheritance tax.

Cossy a lot of information and POV on just this topic on the thread called "The Farmers Fight".

She is not a good interviewer! GB news is a business which is just in it to make as much money as possible. Ordinary small farms/farmers will not be affected. There are other family businesses who have to pay! As a family when our elderly spinster aunt died leaving under one million in assets her estate had to pay inheritance tax. What is good enough for one person should be the same for all.

Oldbat1

She is not a good interviewer! GB news is a business which is just in it to make as much money as possible. Ordinary small farms/farmers will not be affected. There are other family businesses who have to pay! As a family when our elderly spinster aunt died leaving under one million in assets her estate had to pay inheritance tax. What is good enough for one person should be the same for all.

No it shouldn’t.
Farmers are food producers your spinster aunt wasn’t.
Just as hospices, care homes and GP surgeries should be exempt from the hike in NI for their employees but have been lumped under the heading ‘businesses’ in RR’s quest for more money.Yes they’re businesses but it’s the health of the nation.
If any have to close, and some will do, what’s the human cost?

You can say that about any business “human cost”.

If you can’t see the distinction then no point in discussing it.

I agree with you Oreo.
Farmers produce our food. If many farms have to sell land in order to pay IHT then I’m afraid the big conglomerates will move in and they will farm to the lowest possible common denominator. And we’ll have to import more food from abroad and that will cause more global warming.

Primrose53

Shinamae GB NEWS has now got higher ratings than BBC and Sky News for their news programmes. 👏👏

I should bloody think so! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁

Shinamae

Primrose53

Shinamae GB NEWS has now got higher ratings than BBC and Sky News for their news programmes. 👏👏

I should bloody think so! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁

I'm still waiting for a source for this assertion as viewing figures tell a completely different story...

Farmers are not a "community" They are business people in it to make money. Neither is farming a life style choice like crofting in the Highlands.

Many if not most farmers are rich , live in large comfortable houses, and drive expensive cars, and send their children to fee -paying schools.

When it's expedient to sell the farm many farmers sell the land for glamping or grouse moors .Often the land is sold to rich foreigners who require it as an investment or grouse moor or some such luxury.

It's high time that land use in the UK be used for the benefit of all not just for the rich few.

The main problem here will be getting Starmer in the country long enough to attend the meeting.