Kit Kightly – Off Guardian Nov 18, 2024
The British government’s inheritance tax reforms aren’t about class warfare or filling the “black hole” in the country’s budget, they are about taking vital land off small and medium-sized family farms and handing it to mega-corporations.
It’s yet another piece of the Great Reset agenda, specifically the war on food.
A quick course for non-Brits who don’t know how our country works (and, indeed, the substantial number of Brits who have recently demonstrated they don’t know how their own country works):
Since 1984 working farms have been 100% exempt from paying inheritance tax under the “agricultural property relief” (APR) system.
The justification for this was that working farms are needed to produce the food we all eat, and since British farming families are generally asset-rich but cash-poor, charging inheritance tax on farmland might negatively impact farm output.
Keir Starmer’s government has just announced that, as of April 2026, they are scrapping the APR scheme.
This means anyone inheriting a working farm will now have to pay up to 20% of the value of the assets in tax, and since farmers operate on fine margins that will likely mean selling of parcels of land to raise money. Some farmers may be forced to sell all the land at once, since piece-meal buyers may be hard to find.
As you can imagine, the farmers are not happy about this. Nor is anyone who understands the potential implications.
This is being billed in the press as old-fashioned left vs right politics, the narrative is that the country needs revenue and that “greedy hoarding farmers aren’t paying their fair share”.
But, in my view, this is a lie.
Or at best a distortion. A noisy public debate that obfuscates the real intention of the policy.
I don’t think ghis has anything to do with raising taxes. I think this is about the land.
They know this policy will force medium-sized family-run farms to sell – in fact, they are banking on it.
Take a look at Will Hutton’s column in The Guardian…
Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain
Hard to see this as anything but an admission of the real policy here.
And then we have former Blair aide John McTernan landing himself in hot water when he told an interviewer Starmer’s government should “do to farmers what Thatcher did to miners”, claiming “farming is an industry we can do without”. Labour officials were quick to disavow the comments, but you can’t help but think it was a “quiet part loud” moment.
As usual, it is the journalists and twitterati carrying the bag for tyranny, making bitter, snarky social media posts about “millionaire farmers” or rambling on about farmers deserving to lose their business because they voted for Brexit.
Yes, seriously:
“It does beg the question whether farmers are simply reaping what they sowed.”@Matthew_Wright would have more sympathy for farmers complaining about inheritance tax if the majority of them hadn’t made the country “£100 billion a year worse off” by voting for Brexit. pic.twitter.com/9ot55mYT8L
— LBC (@LBC) November 17, 2024
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Just as with Covid and “climate change”, the powers-that-shouldn’t-be are safely relying on the “educated middle class” to not understand anything at all about the way the world really works.
I imagine the self-labelled leftists think the sold-off farmland is going to be snatched up by the state and run for the common good or something equally delusional.
In his article, Hutton even argues this will energise “young farmers”:
Young farmers, now increasingly crowded out of the market, will get a chance to buy land: there is the prospect of a levelling off, even a fall, in farm rents. New life and ideas will be brought to the rural economy as innovative, energetic farmers enter the market – and production even increases.
As if the country is full of aspiring independent farmers with nothing but a hoe, a dream and a few million pounds to spend on land.
It is a fantasy.
Common sense tells you any land farmers are forced to sell will be bought up by corporate giants who can afford to pay over market price (We’ve seen the same thing with the housing market in the US).
Big Farmer conglomerates that want to plant green deserts of monocultures for making vegan protein alternatives because meat and dairy are bad for the environment. And that’s very much the best-case scenario. At least that’s still food production, of a sort.
Alternatively, it will be bought up by energy suppliers who then lease the land at extortionate rates back to local councils to build solar panels and/or wind turbines that don’t work in the name of saving the planet.
Or maybe it will be bought by “climate-friendly” NGOs or billionaire philanthropists who accept massive “grants” from the government to “conserve the environment” by just letting prime farmland lie fallow.
We know all this happens, they’ve been doing it for years.
The British government started paying “lump sums to farmers who wanted to leave the industry” in 2022.
Farmers were served “compulsory purchase orders” to make space to build high-speed rail links.
The “Environmental Land Management” scheme pays farmers to “rewild” fields.
Farmland is being flooded to create salt marshes, earmarked for cultivated forests and solar panels in the name of combatting (entirely imaginary) climate change.
This isn’t just a British issue. It is a global one.
In 2023 the EU “reformed” its Common Agricultural Policy to award subsidies based on sustainability rather than productivity, at the same time they are securing trade deals with South America to import food rather than grow their own (French farmers are protesting this). Denmark is going “rewild” 15% of its farmable land to “lower fertiliser usage”. Like the UK, the US has both federal and state programs that pay farmers not to farm.
It goes on and on. It’s a simple system:
- Make small or medium-sized farms financially non-viable
- Force families to sell their land.
- Have Mega-Corps buy it up
In short, the endgame is total corporate control over the land and the food supply. The inheritance tax changes are just the UK government adding more pressure on farmers to accelerate this process.
Once that goal is achieved they take the narrative anywhere they want it to go. They can engineer food shortages and price increases, then they can say those shortages show “how badly we need food reform” and start instituting climate-friendly rationing and meat bans and forcing people to eat bugs and lab-grown goo.
They’ve got the land, they’ve got the food, so they can say – and do – whatever they want.
All the while food prices will go up, family farms and organic products will begin to disappear, and idiotic self-styled “communists” on Twitter will smile smugly and think they won one for the little guy.
The farmers are planning a large protest for November 19th. I would urge anybody who requires food to live give them some moral support.
Their rallying cry is “No Farmers, No Food!”. Unfortunately for them, that is very much the point.
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This is crap. The farmers should not own the land to begin with. They’re all millionaires many, many times over. They’re not on your side. They’re jews like all the rest. Why? I bet not one of you has ever been anywhere near a farm. They’re all full of £500,000 tractors, £150,000 range rovers, brand new buildings, houses nestled under trees for their numerous children, new “keep out” signs, new barb wire fences, new roads, new everything. They won’t let you set foot on any of it either. It’s “theirs”. Think what that means. 99% of the land in the jew-k is illegal for you to step foot on. “We grow all the food.” Yeah, like the foreign owned power companies make all the power and the foreign owned water companies “own” all the water. All the farmland – all of it – should be owned and controlled by and for the people. Everyone should have access to it. Only a greed culture of fascism produces people that think not being able to set foot on 99% of the country and not being able to grow a single potato for yourself would support the “farmers”. And no, I don’t want gates of hell to own it either. I want YOU to own it, and so would you if you had a brain.
The Jews who rule us through their clever democracy trick have a long history of taking an unhealthy interest in farming. Whenever I see good agricultural land being transformed into solar farms or wooded in a country which cannot feed itself (as I did recently whilst walking in the Hampshire countryside) I have the flesh creeping recollection of that tribe’s history of making artificial famines e.g. the Holodomor in Ukraine or what the Jew Lenin said about famine being an indispensible aid to revolution. Even in the French Revolution these kikes hiked prices artificially to create discontent with the intention of creating a revolutionary environment.
I fear that what the Jews are doing today is every bit as revolutionary as what they succeeded in doing in Russia or France in 1789 or England in 1649 and tried to do to Spain in 1936 and sadly we have Jewish democracy rather than a Franco to protect us from these predators.
I am also sure that their interest in farming is prompted by their revolutionary ambitions.
Depopulation means less people, less food. Farmers look with a very small flashlight.
The family farm is the best food security a country can have. Large company land holders owe their allegiance to no one. Governments will sell out small farmers for their own political advantage.
Britain is under attack from its Zionist Occupied Governments.
The way to avoid inheritance taxes is simple. Old farmers should divorce their wives and marry one of the grandchildren of the same sex.
Then watch the government squirm, or whine about incest even though marriage has been deconstructed to not be about having children any longer.
I would suggest that the Farmers and the vast majority of Pensioner’s suffer from having the ‘wrong’ skin colour, and that subject to ‘Positive Discrimination’ & proper encouragement those with the correct skin colour according to the mores of ‘Coundenhove Kalergi’ – would have no problems.
Also the idea that land can be used for building homes for the invading army is obviously false. Why would governments that never bothered to provide enough homes for the indigenous in the first place seek to build homes for the invaders? If as ‘Jack Straw, Home Secretary said roundabout the turn of the millenium: – ” The English as a race are not worth saving,” then as the English are outbred and dwindle away, it becomes a far easier economic solution for governent to use their now unoccupied homes for all those with the correct skin colour.
Furthermore, if the people want their country back: – they might start with the millions of acres of Common Law land stolen from them during the Nineteenth century!
What’s new? Its all there in the Communist Manifesto. Notice author of article doesn’t even mention Communism.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
–The Communist Manifesto; Marx/Engels
So much for all these morons terming the current UK political system ‘fascist’.
rich jews will buy all the land (like Bill Gates),
doing nothing with it according to WEF reset .
“farmers are scum”–your Commie talk leads to mass starvation, whether in the Soviet Bloc or Southern Africk
Agent of treason and treachery, and festering imbecile, John McTernan vomited out this doozy, “farming is an industry we can do without”. No, you epic dumb-f*ck, we literally cannot do without it. That guy should be beaten to a pulp and get a dozen whole apples forcibly stuffed up his ass.
“In short, the endgame is total corporate control over the land and the food supply.” … A dystopian nightmare of exponential abuse and misery waiting to happen. And most lazy, cowardly, and coed dumb-f*cks will just roll over and let it happen. You’d better start fighting as if your life depends upon it…because it does.
@lewis jones
Farmer are we? Why would all the land belonging to the people result in one less cabbage? Starvation my arse.
Farmers are scum. I’ve met hundreds of them, always at the wrong end of a gun over their arm or on motorised tricycles, always shouting “get off my land”, I don’t give a shit what you think because you obviously want the vast majority of the land in the hands of the few, which makes you a “commie”. I bet you also like the idea of all the “houses” (boxes) belonging to the few to make everyone else a rent slave.
Farmer that owns rent slaves are we?
If you liked “Covid”…
you;re gonna love Starvation!!!
fas–I am not a farmer and you are in a dream world. Farmers have guns and tricycles? Oh what a scandal! And I never heard anyone say “Get off my land!” Maybe they see you and know you are hostile. They are not a few, they have small farms, and it is Starmer who will put the land into the hands of fewer people