Labour’s Broken Promises and Two-Tier Governance Are Dividing Britain

[James105]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

Gordon Brown is not a member of the Starmer Government.

 

 

 

So what? I never said he was I (correctly) stated he was Labour.   You were the one banging on about how private sector pensions should be improved and I pointed out one of the reasons they are so bad is because of idiotic Labour policies to grab relatively small amounts of money that has devastating consequences.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, James105 said:

 

So what? I never said he was I (correctly) stated he was Labour.   You were the one banging on about how private sector pensions should be improved and I pointed out one of the reasons they are so bad is because of idiotic Labour policies to grab relatively small amounts of money that has devastating consequences.

I regularly check my private industry pensions, they’re in a healthy condition.

I would dearly like to see more working people in the private sector have access to final salary pension schemes.

 

Perhaps that explains why I’m not eaten with envy and keen to see others have their pension rights stripped from them.

 

I sincerely hope you made the right choices too.

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[theblether]

I rarely discuss British politics. I will say that the level of rage I'm seeing is off the scale. The attack on farmers is unbelievable. My mate, who's a ninth generation farmer and unmarried, is in a panic as he reckons he's leaving a crippling inheritance tax bill to his nieces and nephews. These are just working class kids. He thought he would die on the farm, he's now looking to sell and distribute the cash before death. 

 

Who's going to buy? Companies - and they'll turn the British countryside into factory farms. Generations of independent knowledge and care will disappear. It's absurd. 

 

You're not a farmer, you don't care? Right - my Dad has just discovered that his pension scheme is liable to 40% tax. This is a man who started off down the mines, and worked in engineering and quarries his entire life. He lives a frugal life, he remembers poverty, as does my mother. 

 

He now has eighteen months to obliterate his pension savings or lose 40% to the tax man. He's just recovering from an illness, not doing well at the moment, and he gets hit with this just before his 80th birthday. It's cruel. 

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[BruceWayne]

59 minutes ago, theblether said:

I rarely discuss British politics. I will say that the level of rage I'm seeing is off the scale. The attack on farmers is unbelievable. My mate, who's a ninth generation farmer and unmarried, is in a panic as he reckons he's leaving a crippling inheritance tax bill to his nieces and nephews. These are just working class kids. He thought he would die on the farm, he's now looking to sell and distribute the cash before death. 

 

Who's going to buy? Companies - and they'll turn the British countryside into factory farms. Generations of independent knowledge and care will disappear. It's absurd. 

 

You're not a farmer, you don't care? Right - my Dad has just discovered that his pension scheme is liable to 40% tax. This is a man who started off down the mines, and worked in engineering and quarries his entire life. He lives a frugal life, he remembers poverty, as does my mother. 

 

He now has eighteen months to obliterate his pension savings or lose 40% to the tax man. He's just recovering from an illness, not doing well at the moment, and he gets hit with this just before his 80th birthday. It's cruel. 

 

 

Interestingly Starmer met with the largest US' landowner Bill Gates 2 months ago

 

I would say more re the farmers but seems it's not allowed on here

Not sure why or if others actually undersatand what's going on in the UK and the affect on farmers ability to hold onto their farms but I'm off to e*X*ercise my free speech with the grown ups 

 

 

Edited 41 minutes ago by BruceWayne

[theblether]

Yes, I'm aware of that and he couldn't have brought in a better policy to destroy farms. 

 

Naturally the clown brigade is all over Jeremy Clarkson buying a farm to escape IHT. He is far from normal. Normal are families who are emotionally tied to their land and lifestyle for generations. 

 

I have no problem with Clarkson types having to pay IHT for the first generational transfer. Hitting people who have owned land for 200 years with IHT is just ridiculous. They have no control over the value, it's governmental brutality against the custodians of our countryside. Truly appalling.