Dave Smith

@sarahstuartxx "And is that how it is set out in this Bill?" Yes. "end their own life" "to be self-administered" Though I think a doctor is supposed to be present in the UK for some reason. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

@DaveSmithSkvn And is that how it is set out in this Bill? There are many different models, I know in some US states people do it at home, but in Europe it seems to be a doctor supervising is more common.

The alternative situation would be 13 year old Theo being told mum would die on X date and presumably not being present for the moment when the lethal dose was given, or else being present and having that nightmare to live with.

@VladaOfEngland Smack bang next to Chester. Why wouldn't you?

@faisalislam Fine if you want to move to Ellesmere Port. Would you?

1100 jobs at risk… big challenge for new Government… Stellantis weren’t bluffing… Vauxhall owner to close Luton plant bbc.com/news/articles/…

@shashj What would be the point? Trump/Farage etc don't do numbers. Its all about the vibes / feelz.

@VitkiPepon Its a complete mystery. apnews.com/article/sabota…

Can someone tell me wtf is going on? Glasgow, Euston, American Embassy, and Gatwick are all within 2 days of each other.

@saifalikhan067 Oh No! Perhaps Russia will spray some nerve agent around a provincial cathedral city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning…

@jeremycorbyn The UK will face the consequences

The Prime Minister should make a statement to Parliament, immediately, to confirm whether UK missiles have been fired into Russia. He must tell the British public if this means we are now at war with a nuclear power, what risk this poses to people in Britain, and why this action was taken without any approval from Parliament. I have consistently condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and called for a diplomatic solution to stop the endless bloodshed. As we edge closer and closer to catastrophe, we should be doing everything in our power to bring about de-escalation and peace. Instead, our political leaders have added fuel to the fire and gambled with people’s lives for political gain. Presidents and Prime Ministers must know that in the event of nuclear war, nobody wins. I’m not interested in bombs. I’m interested in peace – and I will continue to campaign for peace in Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, Sudan, the DRC and beyond.

@nmtm1970_2 Makes a change from nerve agent, I suppose. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

@ChristopherJM Time for Russia to blow up the UK.

Video geolocated to Marino, Kursk region purporting to show today’s Ukrainian Storm Shadow missile attack on a Russian military target. This marks the first use of the British weapon on Russian soil. Our report here: on.ft.com/3CLxtKu

@thegutterpoet Wouldn't an "old military base" be where you'd put, I don't know, an HQ for 10,000 North Koreans?

@ChristopherJM Seems a pointless strike for show, hitting an old military base with Soviet stock not related at all to the SMO and doing little damage. A PR stunt. The Pentagon and RF military likely chatting back channels to ensure nothing serious enough to force major response from RF.

@shashj I wonder what they said on the bridge when they noticed the anchor was dragging in open sea? I'm sure the voyage data recorder will be found to be "unservicable". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_da…

@CarnoustieC Yeah. We seemed to have food before 1992 when the loophole was introduced.

@DaveSmithSkvn The land that is used for farming is producing food.... who needs food anyway

Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases

@CarnoustieC Great. Dyson with his 36,000 acres won't be taxed. That's what we all want. Who needs pensions, roads, schools or healthcare anyway?

@DaveSmithSkvn @mermaidatlarge Why can't they have a simple rule of land that is farmed is exempt and land that isn't is taxable? Then farming isn't taxed.

@OnHartley Yep. Like everyone else. If a 40 year old with over two decades of full time farming experience - and the one doing the physical work - can't take over then its not much of a "Family Farm".

@DaveSmithSkvn @jonpp82 Are you an actual tellytubby? You want the person in the family with the most experience and knowledge to step down and lose what little income they do have?

@Oneeyedgirl1 It is an issue. I have a friend who's sister married a farmer. They had to live with their 2 kids in a cramped workers cottage while the no-longer-farming parents "squatted" in the 6 bedroom farm house into their 80s.

@jonpp82 @DaveSmithSkvn @PaulPromptChain So, a farmer who hands the farm down to his son or daughter, has to move out? If the farm is in his name only, his spouse can't live there? Show me this nonsense law.

@mermaidatlarge Mornington Crescent! You have a great, if cold, day. 👋

@DaveSmithSkvn Deflection...

@mermaidatlarge Nah. Very much the same subject.

@DaveSmithSkvn Changing subject...

@mermaidatlarge How will everyone else with a family business pay twice as much?

@DaveSmithSkvn How they will pay it if the value of land is not correlated with the farm profits? How do you know it will be a small number and why would you punish families hit with premature death of family member?

@mermaidatlarge That will be a very small number. They will then pay half the tax everyone else pays, with 10 years to pay interest free. (AFAIK if they are married, the spouse gets it without tax.)

@DaveSmithSkvn and if they die in less than 7 years from that moment, then what?

@jonpp82 So tax policy is to be driven my old farmers refusal to downsize? If they are still actively farming at 65 years old its not much of a "family farm" scenario.

@DaveSmithSkvn @PaulPromptChain Because they are not allowed to live in the farm if it's handed over

@mermaidatlarge Perhaps its a stupid question. They should sign over the farm when they stop actively farming it. Hand over the large farmhouse to the ones with kids. If that happened 95%+ of "family farms" would have nothing to pay. Its all about "family farms" after all.

@DaveSmithSkvn That doesn't answer the question. How one can know they will not die for 7 years?

@mermaidatlarge The most common age of death in UK is 86 (for men). Perhaps there would be some inkling by that age that they were not immortal. Perhaps not actively farming the land for a couple of decades might be an indicator? Perhaps looking at their 50-something off-spring?

@DaveSmithSkvn How do you calculate when it will be 7 years before you die? Can you ask a GP for a date?