Truss Liz to get things so wrong!
NEW: Queen Elizabeth II thought Boris Johnson âbetter suited to the stageâ than politics and two days before her death, after he resigned, she told a senior courtier in jest: "At least that idiot wonât be organising my funeral.
Can the Queen sack a PM?â: how Boris Johnson prorogued parliament
The inside story of how he rammed through Brexit can finally be told â how aides feared police would raid No 10 and royal anger brought out Elizabethâs unvarnished views
I somehow doubt that was said in total jest tbh Barry.
Those were heady days, peak BRexit turmoil at the time. And the Royals abhorred Boris whom they knew was a chancer and liar. Him attempting to prorogue parliament for five weeks ffs and then threatening not to send the letter from parliament requesting the EU delay BRexit was pretty well out there. There was never any real oven ready BRexit deal. Tâwas a back of a â â â packet job in the end.
At the time Cummings was well off fhe leash and Boris, like the odious Rees-Mogg were basically misleading his AG, the HoC and the Queen who herself was very dubious it should be done for so long anyway. It was a complete mess. An asylum. Thankfully and in the end the Supreme Court ruled the proroguing unlawful.
The rest of the world were right to think the U.K were off their collective heads.
Probably still do 
11 November, the day that our Head of State brought down a Government, as the alternative to letting the electorate decide.
Not an everyday scene in London, has to be said.
Jezza and his new farming mates up in arms over the new Inheritance tax on farms.
The revolt of the nobility, all those poor Dukes might have to sell off a farm or two.
Always ways around it. Hopefully they give the big middle finger to the government. Inheritance tax is a disgrace
This is a tightening, trusts like those of the Duke of Grosvenor were able to avoid inheritance taxes.
It kicks in at 1 million pounds, thatâs actually quite low for a value of a farm. A lot of small family owned farms would be affected adversely.
Yes, those unfortunate people who inherit something valued at more than ÂŁ1M. Feel really sorry for them.
Feel sorry for Clarkson in particular who bought a farm for reasons such as shooing pheasants (statement today) or avoiding inheritance tax (statement in 2021).
Those poor, poor (not really poor) people
Fun spelling error in that post - if only it werenât, that would be some mildly perturbed pheasants but alive.
I assumed he meant âshooting peasantsâ.
Then there are the pheasant pluckers.
The problem is that they need to pay the tax on transfer from parent to child, the problem is that it is not paying tax on something you have sold and received a larger sum for.
And with something like a farm it most likely is also what they will be working in so not an asset to sell.
This is spot on.
If you force farmers to sell, the farms will inevitably end up in the hands of big multi nationalsâŚwho somehow never seem to pay any tax.
Governments across the world would be better off targeting big business rather than attacking the livelihoods of their citizens.
Bwahahahaha, what a ludicrous idea!
As I understand it, there are a lot of tenant farmers in the UK, renting from the nobility who have inherited the land. Thatâs certainly the case in the Duchy of Cornwall.,
When the EU introduced hill farm subsidies to assist small farmers, I overheard some very rich freeholders calculating how much they would make from stocking animals on their hillsides.
The French smallholders are currently out on their tractors protesting against subsidy cuts and potential competition from Mercosur . The agricultural baron landholders are keeping quiet
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