Lynne Godfrey

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

National food security should be a top priority!🙌🏼

“The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband's wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment. Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, but are pushing ahead anyway. Bureaucrats admit the plans may destroy 'nationally recognised sites, landscapes and historic environments' as well as damaging 'biodiversity and water resources.' Officials also confess his schemes may increase 'air emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, noise and vibrations, light pollution, dust and soils.'”

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

@benonwine Not Keir Starmer because nobody told him.

Did anyone else realise it was the FA Cup Final today apparently! 🤣🤷‍♂️

@5liveSport You actually reported and celebrated the women's win? That's a first then.

Two trophies in one day for Manchester City 🏆🏆 #BBCFootball #ManCity #MCFCW

Hey @SkyNews Manchester City women are WSL champions! Not a mention on your so-called sports news. You pay lip service to equality etc but the lack of coverage shows what you really think and it sucks! #manchestercitywomen

@MarineAFC Brilliant news!⚽️🥳

✍️ We’re delighted to announce that winger Fin Sinclair-Smith has signed a new deal to remain with the club. Fin has been a star player for Marine in the National League North, having previously starred for the club in the Northern Premier League. He began his career at Blackpool and had a spell at Marine in 2018, scoring twice in a memorable FA Cup win at National North side Brackley Town, before returning ahead of the the 2023/24 season. On signing his new deal, Fin said: “It was a no brainer when the gaffer contacted me and wanted to offer me a new deal, what a season we’ve just had. Everybody knows how happy I am here and the love I have for the club and the fans. Roll on next season, Mariners.” Manager Bobby Grant said: “We are delighted that Fin has signed a new deal with the club. He has played a key role in the success we have achieved over the past few years and continues to be an important player for us.” #WeAreMarine

Unpopular opinion: Kemi Badenoch is becoming *really* good at this, and is miles better than Nigel Farage. Farage avoids scrutiny, avoids clarity, is trying to draw together a broad coalition by painting in the vaguest of strokes, where Badenoch is doing the hard work of becoming genuinely competent

At long last, someone in Westminster appears to have located both a spine and a functioning grasp of reality. While Sir Keir Starmer wanders about Downing Street like an apologetic stock-room boy accidentally promoted beyond his capabilities, Kemi Badenoch has emerged with the rarest of modern political qualities: clarity. No gimmicks. No focus-grouped drivel. No dreary sermon wrapped in buzz-word jargon. Just sharp intellect, conviction and the increasingly radical notion that Britain ought to govern itself properly. Her description of Starmer as “in office but not in power” was not merely a political jab. It was a devastatingly accurate diagnosis. The man occupies Number 10 in much the same way a substitute teacher occupies a classroom: technically in charge, yet entirely ignored by the people around him. After 14 years in opposition, Labour finally clawed its way into government only to discover it had spent so long protesting outside the building that it forgot to prepare for what happens inside it. The result is a government lurching from U-turn to U-turn with all the dignity of a sexually inappropriate drunk uncle attempting the foxtrot at a wedding reception. No new taxes? Reversed. Tough on immigration? Reversed. Fiscal discipline? Reversed before the ink had dried. One almost expects Labour ministers to begin each morning by spinning a wheel marked “today’s abandoned principle”. Meanwhile nearly 100 Labour MPs are openly sharpening the knives, ministers are resigning with the frequency of Premier League coaches and Starmer himself delivers speeches with the haunted expression of a man slowly realising the lifeboat has already left shore. And into this shambles walks Kemi Badenoch: articulate, composed and gloriously unafraid to say what millions of ordinary Britons have been muttering into their tea for years. Her agenda, whether on border security, energy independence or national defence, at least resembles a government that understands a country cannot survive indefinitely on slogans, diversity seminars and taxpayer-funded feelings. Britain requires competence. It requires order. It requires leadership that does not treat patriotism as faintly embarrassing. What makes Badenoch so refreshing is not merely that she dismantles Labour with forensic precision, though she does that beautifully, it is that she speaks with the sort of unapologetic confidence Britain once admired before Westminster became infested with careerists who communicate exclusively in HR-approved mush. There is something wonderfully English about her approach. Sensible. Direct. Unsentimental. The political equivalent of a brisk walk through cold weather whilst someone incompetent is firmly told to pull themselves together. And perhaps that is why Labour fears her so deeply. Because beneath the media pearl-clutching and endless manufactured outrage, Badenoch represents something profoundly dangerous to the modern political establishment: a politician who appears to actually mean what she says. In today’s Westminster, that borders on revolutionary. Starmer may still possess the keys to Number 10, but increasingly he resembles a temporary tenant awaiting eviction whilst Kemi Badenoch stands outside with the auction catalogue and a perfectly raised eyebrow.

The thing about bond markets is that if Labour said: "We're going to borrow this money to do a massive investment in nuclear energy, built to Korean standards, we're going to expand our airports and ports, renew and expand Britain's highway and rail systems, renew Britain's armed services and we're going to dramatically overhaul our planning and approvals system to do it rapidly" Labour would get a very positive response from the markets and its borrowing rate would fall. Unfortunately what Labour tells the markets is "we're going to borrow money and throw it at our client groups - welfare recipients, pensioners, the public sector and unions - basically the least productive members of society". Oddly enough this doesn't go down very well.

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@benonwine I couldn't stop laughing! Though I think it's hysteria.

So the rumours now are that David Lammy could enter the Labour leadership race if Keir Starmer falls. What’s your reaction?

@AaronBastani Is this because he still doesnt know what a woman is?

The most Keir Starmer response to what is happening you could possibly conceive of.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Good manners and general politeness

@JamesMelville As a Northerner ( but still know how many beans make 5) I would say this is ok, though have a problem with part of Lincolnshire being the North

England: Is this pretty much correct?

@BritainisCool I'd rather have Larry the Cat thanks. 😂

Who would you rather have as UK Prime Minister?

@dailybritainonx Being working class and good at PMQs doesn't mean she would be any good as a Prime Minister. Sticking up for the so-called workers isnt a strategy. She always sounds very divisive to me. Doe she know how many beans make 5 ?

She grew up in Stockport, left school at 16 pregnant, worked as a carer, became a union organiser and rose to be Deputy Prime Minister. She is the bookmakers' 6/4 favourite to be the next Labour leader. She is ferociously effective at PMQs, has genuine roots in working-class communities, and connects with voters that Starmer visibly struggles with. Is she the future Labour needs?

Latest on Starmer: * Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable