Nigel Farage in London with hundreds of farmers today

Why were the news media interviewing Farage today instead of representatives of the farmers union? Why is he given so much publicity?

Barleyfields

Of course it sounds good to people who don’t have much to pass on. To those who do, it represents what they have worked and saved for for decades. Of course they could have frittered it all away and have nothing much to leave, but they chose not to. Should they be penalised for that choice?

You haven't worked and paid for the appreciation on your property. Most of us after 25 years live rent free, I had a 20 year mortgage I took out at 20. I've lived rent and mortgage free for over 30 years and meanwhile the value of the house has gone up by hundreds of thousands of pounds

MayBee70

Why were the news media interviewing Farage today instead of representatives of the farmers union? Why is he given so much publicity?

Presumably it'd not what you know it's who you know.

Lucky you, the worried well. Many people are still paying off a mortgage after they retire.

Can older farmers give their children a share in the farm? Would they still be able to live there and take an income if they own 50 or 25% of the farm?

They could, but the share given away would still form part of their estate for IHT.

Barleyfields

Lucky you, the worried well. Many people are still paying off a mortgage after they retire.

Oh well I worked hard and didn't fritter my money away did I.

So did many people, but their circumstances - such as divorce to name but one - meant that their lives and mortgages didn’t turn out as planned.

I do hope they will be punished in the same matter as the climate change protesters if they hold up the traffic and prevent people getting to hospital appointments etc.

Churchview

Also, when he was an MEP Farage had a gift of an opportunity to make huge positive impact on British farming. Instead he rarely attended the European parliament and on the few occasions he did he he made a complete fool of himself and our country by association.

When he has the chance to actually do some work and represent the people who voted for them he does nothing. The man's all for show and division.

His attendance record at the European Parliament was appalling he was 748th out of 751 MEPs on attendance and he gets a pension of £73,000 a year for that. Since the election he has lied about the Southport killer and about local elections being cancelled. Now Reform have 200,000 members he stands to get 60% of the annual fee of £25 they pay and he also charges people to attend meetings. The man is a con artist.

Barleyfields

So did many people, but their circumstances - such as divorce to name but one - meant that their lives and mortgages didn’t turn out as planned.

So much h the same as people who rented and couldn't save?

I didn't or rd 40 years ago and eventually married another divorcee. Brought up 4 kids and been carer for disabled husband for 30 years. Life's tough isn't it.

I do or rd 50 years ago.

Still wrong, 40 years ago. Third time lucky.

Ilovecheese

I do hope they will be punished in the same matter as the climate change protesters if they hold up the traffic and prevent people getting to hospital appointments etc.

Ironic, given your username 😁

Of course, some cheese is imported so you should be ok.

theworriedwell

Barleyfields

Of course it sounds good to people who don’t have much to pass on. To those who do, it represents what they have worked and saved for for decades. Of course they could have frittered it all away and have nothing much to leave, but they chose not to. Should they be penalised for that choice?

You haven't worked and paid for the appreciation on your property. Most of us after 25 years live rent free, I had a 20 year mortgage I took out at 20. I've lived rent and mortgage free for over 30 years and meanwhile the value of the house has gone up by hundreds of thousands of pounds

Good grief!

A mortgage at 20 - was that possible? Over 20 years?
And paid off by 40?

Some of us only took out a mortgage in our 30s.

I always wanted my own house and started work part-time st14 full-time at 15 and saved every penny. Bought a wreck so building society would only give me 20 years

Women could not take out a mortgage on their own until at least 1975.
Under 21s could not take out a mortgage at that time.

You must have been on a very high salary, theworriedwell, to be able to save for a deposit and persuade a bank or building society to offer you a mortgage at 20.

I took out a mortgage in 1983. I was 24.
I'd worked part time jobs and saved up since I was legally allowed to work and, when I started work full time I put money aside.
The wage/house price ratio was very different then to now and you didn't need a very high salary to buy a house then.

Ironically I was a farm labourer when I bought the house.
I worked for a man who'd inherited his family farm.
His son runs it now.
Neither of them ever paid a mortgage.

Allira

Women could not take out a mortgage on their own until at least 1975.
Under 21s could not take out a mortgage at that time.

You must have been on a very high salary, theworriedwell, to be able to save for a deposit and persuade a bank or building society to offer you a mortgage at 20.

Possible worriedwell is one of the youngsters on GN. if she is only 60, she would have taken the mortgage out in 1985. AS to affording it, it depends where you lived. In 1968 on holiday in Northumberland we saw very nice minors cottages selling for £1,000. The following year we bought our first house on a commuter route into London and we paid £5,995

My sister took out a mortgage in her own name without a guarantor in 1977. She was 32. The house she bought was in Battersea, a starting to rise but not yet risen area, and paid about £5,000 for a 2 bed flat.

I think it was a security thing. Dad died when I was a child, mum remarried unwisely and he wrecked my dad's business and left with half of what was left of his money. So my home was important. I got married and divorced but kept my house, remarried and DH had his own house but with a bigger mortgage. My kids will pay inheritance tax but to be honest if we leave them a million and they 'only' end up with 900k they will be doing ok.

I'm 71 and got a mortgage as the building society manager had opened my first account when I was 14 and felt I was a good bet. They did have discretion. My great grandmother had a mortgage in 1920 as a widow. As I said I worked hard and didn't fritter my money away. No holidays, one coat, one pair of shoes etc never drank alcohol
It was easy moving as I could carry everyi owned in a small suitcase.

My mortgage wasid to late 1974

vegansrock

Tax the Junk Food, Fast Food, Super Processed Food giants driving obesity which costs the economy nearly £100 billion a year in obesity driven ill health.
Talk to farmers and sort out the inheritance tax so it doesn't bankrupt them and our countryside ends up being sold off to the international hedgefund managers and billionaires that already own every other bit of British assets.

(before) our countryside ends up being sold off to the international hedgefund managers and billionaires that already own every other bit of British assets

This is the true reason for KS to attack small to medium farms.

When the land is taken out of farming, it means less choice for the consumer, and more control for the food industry. More power and money to the usual suspects.

Not so cockeyed from that point of view, is it?

We got a mortgage in 1976 - we were both 20.

I can't imagine being so responsible at 20 😯