Dan Burling

What’s the actual point? When will retailers just start paying people to take fresh food out of supermarkets? Devaluing food; devaluing farmers; devaluing the environment.

"This is something farmers are going to really struggle to forgive." ICYMI 🎙️| NFU President Tom Bradshaw joined @POLITICOEurope's #WestminsterInsider to explain how the family farm tax has changed farmer's relationship with government. Listen here 👉 ow.ly/eu0R50XojRc

We are one of the stupidest countries on earth for managing our food system

“If you care, care now, not ten years in the future when it’s all gone. We need your support now”. Making no apologies for how cutting and clear my commentary is. @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer do the right thing. You are ruining our country.

The EA madness continues! £1 million worth of Kit cutting grass that hasn’t yet grown on a bank they can neither afford to maintain or repair when it breaches. Speechless.

Tax dodging farmers being blamed for NHS waiting lists, high interest rates, mortgage holders and the state of the economy was not in the head space of anyone in the entire country apart from Keir Starmer.

💥 Iceland boss and Labour backer Richard Walker has spoken out against the party's inheritance tax proposals on farmers, after previously supporting the measure farminguk.com/news/labour-ba…

Rachel in accounts said this 👇 in 2023. I think someone needs to tell her by taking away everything a farmer has and taxing us to the hilt, protecting the environment is one of the last things we’ll be doing.

Steve Witherden Labour Party MP for Montgomeryshire & Glyndŵr makes this powerful plea in Parliament to the Labour government to change inheritance tax on family farms & significantly raise the threshold so family farms aren’t affected. All credit to him. Principles before party.

🚨 NEW: Co-op has now joined Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Tesco, and Lidl in calling on the Government to reconsider its proposed inheritance tax changes for farmers [@StephSpyro]

Huge admiration for ⁦@DanNeidle⁩ who was willing to look at the detail of the IHT policy proposal and conclude that it should be amended! New ‘Tractor tax’ blow to Starmer as Labour expert calls for government U-turn | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

So I’ve read the Hansard account of the debate and have a few comments 🧵 Firstly, the 5bn over 2yrs @RachelReevesMP has allocated is not “the biggest budget for food production and nature recovery in UK history”. In real terms it is the smallest hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-1…

Farmers saw this within seconds of the budget announcement. Wider business so busy dealing with other economic disasters like NIC’s etc seemed to miss this and it WILL CRIPPLE this countries economy @RachelReevesMP committed economic suicide in her budget ☹️

You were elected by only 9.7m people out of a possible 48.2m eligible voters. The lowest number to form a government since the war. You got into No10 by deceit, and lying, nothing to crow about. If your manifesto said you were going freeze our pensioners and ruin farming and businesses, you would be unemployed now.

@OOOfarmer Spot on

Received an email this morning, asking me to go into the press supporting the APR reform. This unfortunately misunderstands my feelings on the subject - which I have been thinking about a lot over the weekend. Here's a redacted copy of my reply to them.

Please sign this petition to help save family farms & the British countryside from becoming owned by huge faceless offshore corporations with no interest in growing for or caring for local environment This is so important, it’s British farmers “closure of the mines” moment, the impact on rural communities would be devastating

Oh please, this really is embarrassing. Quoting a budget number for two years so it doesn’t sound like a cut, sharing a previously launched budget for flooding mitigation (which hasn’t reached farmers months after the event), and this nonsense about ‘only the richest farmers’ being targeted for inheritance tax when the average farm will pay hundreds of thousands for simply wanting the next generation to continue producing food. If you haven’t got anything good to say, just say nothing.

and what do @NFUtweets plan to do about this please ?

Rain............ this is getting VERY serious now .............. AGAIN

“The economics of food production are broken, and ever-fewer farmers are left holding ever-greater risk, farming at an ever- greater scale in an attempt to make the sums add up as they subsidise the balance sheets of the rest of the food supply chain.” ~ @JoeWStanley