This is at work in our 35 acres of woodland, and an old Oak that will be sliced up for tabletops
It has now finally started to rain and we have had nearly 2 inches, which is making a real difference. Within a few days the fields have started to green, and the rain is just in time as it will give us some much needed autumn grazing. The forage crisis is now very acute as stock farmers are eating into their winter stocks and we are barley out of summer. The real pinch point is going to be next March as farmers run out of food for their stock. There will be no magic wand. Some will sow stubble turnips that will give them forage before winter as they are very fast to grow. We will be planting some very fast growing ryegrass that will give us a crop March-April. It is nothing but a massive lottery, what we don’t need is another dry year in 2026, as it was 50 years ago 1975-76!
So, Rachel from Accounts, has launched her proposed legislation with regard to IHT. The proposal is actually not going to raise that much money, only a flea bite, compared the money that her colleagues are prepared to fork out to put a number of illegal immigrants in posh hotels, not to mention all the other perks they get. This is not about the money. This is all about a desire to destroy a hard working chunk of middle England and not just farmers. Just like VAT on school fees, was not about the money, it was about destroying the system, and the parents choice about how they educate their children.
This is all about, a very unpleasant, vindictive Chancellor, who takes the view, that if you work hard, create jobs, and keep the wheels rolling for the nation, you are to be punished, and any accumulated wealth you have, having paid your taxes, should be taken from you. The word I would use is ‘stolen’ from you, no different from the yob that stole my lawnmower a few months ago, no different from the yob who will steal your mobile phone when you are using it in London. U Turn Kier, has said that those with the ‘broadest shoulders’ should carry the weight, and what he really meant to say, was those that get up and are a work by 7am, do a full days work, get home at 6pm, and then do the office work in the evening, need to be punished for doing so, and their hard earned assets, to be taken from them.
Of course not all Labour MPs support this proposal! There are about 100 MPs who represent some very rural seats up and down the country, and many of them are very marginal seats. If the legislation goes though as proposed these guys are cold turkey, and as we speak, will be checking the sits vacant. There will be no future for them in politics. If you are going to stand for a rural seat, you need to understand that it will be full of rural people and they will serve up retribution, big time. Rachel from accounts would do well to cast an eye at the sits vacant as well.
