Michael Roberts

@AnthonyJBritner They are not the same businesses. This BlackRock is a investment company. BlackRock and Vanguard are the same. They are funding the war in Ukraine through others, and conveniently are the ones that will be rebuilding too. Warmongers.

@meicsol Didn't they go bust what was it? 16 years ago? I seem to remember footage on the news of long queues of people outside their branches in 2008.

@AnthonyJBritner 🤣🤣 if i were you id look into BlackRock 👍👍

@meicsol Wealthy investors looking for a tax evasion scheme? So no real change there.

@TWBFarms @Keir_Starmer @agricontract @wheat_daddy @loosecollie I know we dont, but we have reached a point where something needs done. Its not just the iht, low prices below the cost of production is even worse than the iht! SFP reducing to nothing will be a big problem unless we get a fair price for our produce!!

@meicsol @Keir_Starmer @agricontract @wheat_daddy @loosecollie farmers have no desire to punish people for the actions of their incompetent government. But push them to a point where they have nothing to loose and such shutting down of the economy becomes inevitable

They REALLY do want to destroy UK farming don’t they ☹️☹️☹️ let’s stop pretending @Keir_Starmer @agricontract @wheat_daddy @loosecollie ………

@wheat_daddy There is no point us going on about the iht that there wont be farms for the next generation when in reality farming will be a nonstarter anyway as we literally cant make a living.

@wheat_daddy And this isn't just about the iht. We need to sort out farming once and for all. We need prices to reflect what it costs us to produce. I dont want to be a millionaire, but i would like to give myself a good wage for the hard work that goes into everything we do!

There were 2 events on in London on Tuesday, maybe City Steve didn’t realise …….,

@andycribb @StuartMaggs @paullewismoney No2, just a quick question. If you want us to repay the "handouts" we received. I presume then the public will be repaying us the difference in sale price? As sfp are there to keep food prices low, so would only be fair that we get the difference on the cost of production 👍

@StuartMaggs @paullewismoney What you have missed 1. Apr did not exist before 1984- farming didn’t collapse before then 2. You state land prices gone up bc of single farm payment - Shd we stop that and farmers repay the handouts they’ve had from tax payers 3. millions of children live in poverty PAY UP !

#FamilyFarmTax talking points - a helpful guide: 1. "It's only 500 farms". No, that's APR claims above £1m made in one year, 2021/22. Many more people than that are affected by the rules. The CLA estimated the total number is 70,000 farms. On the Government's own numbers it's about 16,000 (500 x one generation of 32 years). The true figure is that it's likely tens of thousands are affected. 2. "There's a £3m exemption". No, that only applies if both spouses are alive, they can split the farm between them, they amend their wills before dying, both they are their children are in stable marriages (or they are prepared to use complex trust structures). It will not be possible for all couples to achieve this. 3. "Family farms are protected". No, DEFRA says the average family farm is 217 acres. At £11,300/acre that's £2.45m. Together with equipment and a farmhouse, that's likely well over £3m which is the maximum level of the exemption. Farms well below that level are affected and will need to take steps to restructure the way they are organised or face inheritance tax bills when the older generation dies. 4. "How can your income be that low? The price of land must be high because of tax avoiders." The current 100% exemption for land and businesses have applied since 1992. The price of land didn't start to rise significantly until 2005, when the Single Farm Payment was introduced. Tax rules only have a minor affect on land value, which is driven by multiple factors including development, rollover relief, environmental needs, and that they're not making more of it 5. "This only affects the very wealthy and tax avoiders" At one end lifestyle buyers may well be within the £1m exemption per person, at the other the very wealthy can still plan by making gifts. The people who cannot avoid it are family farmers who need to retain access to the farm income. 6. "Wealthy farmers can just pay their fair share of tax" An average farm income is about 1%. Even if you pay over 10 years, the inheritance tax payments will often take all the income, and so part of the farm will need to be sold. This reduces efficiency and makes the farm less viable for the future. What have I missed?

@JohannaSaunders Good on ya, and if you feel so strongly that we should sell our livelihood to pay iht why dont do your own little protest and stop buying food and eating, get back to me in a couple of weeks to tell me how its going 👌👍

Fuck Off whinging if you’re rich as hell. Seriously, just Fuck Off. Some of us can’t even turn the fucking heating on when it’s snowing because your precious Tories & Brexit have fucked us all. Pay your fucking taxes, shut the fuck up, you’ll fucking live, unlike some of us.

@TorstenBell Do you make a living off a family home! Stupid comment! A farm is our livelihood, if we have to pay iht on it we would have to sell off land to pay that, and in most cases then making that farm enviable to carry on farming!! Easy to bash on farmers with a full belly!

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

@FickNerrariLBC @GruffyddWilliam @LBC And they are our tools, we cant farm without them. Easy enough to bash farmers on a full belly isn't it. All the comments like yours really make me feel like why the fuck do we bother! You have absolutely no clue!

@FickNerrariLBC @GruffyddWilliam @LBC Show me a farmer that goes out and buys a tractor outright.... they are leased or financed. You keep the wheel turning, they are too expensive!! But if you stop changing them one day you will need a new one and you won't be able to buy one. We dont set their price!

Won’t someone think of the poor farmers??? For the love of god….. Good morning @lbc

@narindertweets Is that house your livelihood? No! A farm is our everything, we make little to literally no money as is, the only way to pay that IHT is to sell off land to pay for it, wich for most family farms would mean the end of farming. Having to sell not only our business but our homes!

Farmer supporters , this 👇 and why you still support them

@Ethan_Jonescy @daveoconnor1309 Sleepy Joe has also been accused of rape, not to mention his son's antics. I wouldn't really trust any politician to be honest, they have all done things they shouldn't have, and bloody lie about 99% of things! But like i said i think Trump will do well, time will tell!

@Ethan_Jonescy @daveoconnor1309 They have sent around 33 billion in direct $$ plus then billions in other aids. Time will tell what Trump will do, but America has voted, everyone should accept that and give the man a chance. I think he will do great for them, can't be any worse than the current president/vice!

@Ethan_Jonescy @daveoconnor1309 JD actually said it. The war should end, no sense in the amount of money we and the US are sending over. Hopefully he can do what he said and get the war finished, but would agree with you if they have said to surrender parts, then they obviously shouldn't do that!

@Ethan_Jonescy @daveoconnor1309 Show me where he has said he will force Ukraine to surrender...

@Ethan_Jonescy @daveoconnor1309 Why do people like yourself love to scaremonger and spread utter bs?? Where's any proof to what you have just said? He wants the war to end, no where has he said for Ukraine to surrender. I might be wrong, but we don't know YET. Stop the scaremongering BS

@ThatWelshFarmer Thought youd have more common sense. You would rather the others win, have you seen what they have been doing regarding putting illegals into swing states, not wanting ID to vote, censorship on a major scale sure you can see that with the media!? Hope he does well

Looks like Trump is back in power. I would say what a bunch of idiots. But the UK put a huge number of votes into Reform so looks like we’re just as stupid.

@DavidButler34 @TWBFarms @ThrimbyFarms @no1sunkfarmer The ones that support us will continue to support us, the ones that don't, don't. Won't lose anything, time farmers stood together with some backbone. Fact is we all need to eat, farming and food security should be number one on everyone's list

@TWBFarms @ThrimbyFarms @no1sunkfarmer Risk losing public support if we get too pitchforky.

At what point is it time to just say F you. We waste so much time talking and discussing things with “empty vessels” who lie to our faces. Farmers, small business, processors… the list goes on. London 19th of sept is a start but this shit isn’t going away. The knife is in.