minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Nov 19, 2024 17:21:31 GMT
out of curiosity, wonder if the agricultural licencing exclusions for >3.5t equipment on the road are only applicable for, you know, agricultural work and not for taking a unimog to farage's farmer cosplay
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Post by Dougs on Nov 19, 2024 17:26:51 GMT
See also using red diesel
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Tuffty
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 19, 2024 17:56:00 GMT
He wasn't expecting to be hit with that one, look at him turning to the crowd for support.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 19, 2024 18:01:26 GMT
The BBC should clone Victoria Derbyshire, they need more journalists like her.
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Aunty Treats
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Post by Aunty Treats on Nov 19, 2024 18:19:44 GMT
He wasn't expecting to be hit with that one, look at him turning to the crowd for support. He's gone full Alan Partridge there |
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Post by peekconfusion on Nov 19, 2024 18:26:22 GMT
"96% will be affected"
"Where did you get that figure from?"
"I plucked it out of my arse"
Jog on, Jeremy.
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Post by simple on Nov 19, 2024 19:15:34 GMT
The BBC should clone Victoria Derbyshire, they need more journalists like her. Wasn’t it her who broke the Huw Edwards grooming story too? |
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X201
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Post by X201 on Nov 19, 2024 19:22:25 GMT
The BBC should clone Victoria Derbyshire, they need more journalists like her. Wasn’t it her who broke the Huw Edwards grooming story too? Sort of. She’d started investigating him, but The Sun splashed the story before they were ready to broadcast anything. |
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Tomo
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Post by Tomo on Nov 20, 2024 0:42:09 GMT
I scrolled to the comments section on the YT video of Clarkson-Derbyshire. Absolute binfire, sigh.
Usual press parroting that Clarkson pwned Derbyshire, and yet if you actually watch the video it's him just trumpeting hollow comebacks and dog-whistling about civil servants and the BBC whilst the mob around him are slavishly lapping up every comment he makes. Urgh.
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Post by simple on Nov 20, 2024 0:51:17 GMT
I mean, what did the BBC ever do for Clarkson?
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Vortex
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Post by Vortex on Nov 20, 2024 9:52:13 GMT
His 'typical BBC' comment did raise a massive guffaw from me!
What a total arse.
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Post by Vandelay on Nov 20, 2024 10:16:33 GMT
It is impressive the broad range of support that the farmers seem to have received yesterday. You had Ed Davey alongside Nigel Farage next to Just Stop Oil high fiving Jeremy Clarkson.
Yet, I can't imagine there being much support from the general public. Funnily enough, a glance on YouGov website doesn't seem to give me any polling on this (closest was whether you would support them striking, with results across all 5 responses being fairly even). You would think it would be a good thing to gauge public opinion on, with the amount of time it is taking up in the media.
If I were to guess, there might be some general anti-inheritance tax people who just oppose anything related to it. There will also be a group that just oppose it because it is Labour and they will oppose "free kittens for everyone" if it was a Labour policy. I would have thought most people are indifferent to the policy and that the fact that the media have latched onto this one suggests that there wasn't much they could really rip into out of the budget. I would have thought the NI change would have been more relatable to people, but guess that wasn't getting the traction.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Nov 20, 2024 10:22:21 GMT
There does seem to be the green shoots of people starting to see through clearly bent motives recently.
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Post by Reviewer on Nov 20, 2024 10:37:38 GMT
Unfortunately just as many that are buying into it even more.
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Post by simple on Nov 20, 2024 11:10:16 GMT
The coalition of protest here is fascinating.
Of course Clarkson and Farage are in favour of never being taxed for anything.
I assume Ed Davey is just being a bit of an opportunist trying to support a headline worthy cause and steal any Tory thunder in those rural Lib/Con marginals you have in the south.
I’m not sure what dog Just Stop Oil have in the fight. I’d have assumed they were anti industrial agriculture and generally in favour of anything looks like class war. Although I suppose a lot of their activists are very posh so maybe they’re in line for some inheritance themselves.
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Post by rhaegyr on Nov 20, 2024 11:11:35 GMT
His 'typical BBC' comment did raise a massive guffaw from me! What a total arse. Partridge couldn't have delivered it better. |
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askew
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Post by askew on Nov 20, 2024 11:49:39 GMT
Farms are green and good for the environment
/me slurps slurry
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Post by Vandelay on Nov 20, 2024 12:15:40 GMT
My word, this Alex Burghart really is very shouty and angry. Only listening to it, but sounds like he is constantly thumping the dispatch box too.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Nov 20, 2024 14:19:21 GMT
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apollo
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Post by apollo on Nov 20, 2024 14:53:17 GMT
they would protest at the opening of crisp packet
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they are being funded by Russia or china to stir up shit
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Post by simple on Nov 20, 2024 14:55:31 GMT
Sounds like they think Starmer is about to start the mass arrest of crofters and allotment holders |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Nov 20, 2024 15:01:51 GMT
ChatGPT reckons it boils down to: Which of course has nothing to do with inheritance taxes on higher value farms. So I'm still not sure why they're there.
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Post by Vandelay on Nov 20, 2024 15:25:44 GMT
Yeah, it is kind of baffling them trying to tag along with it (same with Greenpeace). Most of the farming that is going to be hit by this (although certainly not all) will be the type of farming that they would very much object to.
I suppose there potentially could be an argument that owners of medium amounts of land might end up having to sell to large organisations and that would possibly be worse for the climate. But, you then just come back to the real target needing to be addressing why moderate amounts of farmland isn't returning enough profit to pay half the amount of inheritance tax that other businesses have to pay.
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Post by simple on Nov 20, 2024 15:49:27 GMT
Sounds like we should just nationalise all farms. Its the only way to be sure.
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zephro
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Post by zephro on Nov 20, 2024 17:55:35 GMT
Single issue protestors often make very strange decisions and alliances.
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Post by Reviewer on Nov 20, 2024 17:59:08 GMT
I assume Just Stop Oil protesters laid down in front of the polluting tractors and abused the cow farmers for destroying the planet.
Either that or threw paint over some painting for unknown reasons.
The cause may be good but they’re a bunch of dumb cunts.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 20, 2024 18:22:47 GMT
Single issue protestors often make very strange decisions and alliances. They really, really, really do. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 20, 2024 18:31:48 GMT
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Lizard
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Post by Lizard on Nov 20, 2024 18:31:57 GMT
I assumed it was a simple 'importing food uses fossil fuels unnecessarily, we support domestic farmers'. But no.
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zephro
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Post by zephro on Nov 20, 2024 19:03:32 GMT
Single issue protestors often make very strange decisions and alliances. They really, really, really do. Yeah our Corbyn supported councillor candidate was congratulating Trump the other week, something to do with Harris personally being a war criminal with regards to Gaza... Just insane. |
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