Making the news today....

[Johnsond]

43 minutes ago, Steven P said:

However I can see the thrill in the D household on a Monday, just after you have finished knocking one out when your 2 favourite topic appear on the same news story

 

"Hey, D, can you take the kids to School"

"In a minute Mavis, I just have to post this on the Arborist forum, the guys will be as excited as me to know that Kier is going to do some effective border controls.... Yeah I know most will be setting up on site for a days work just now, it will keep them buzzing till lunch! So excited today Mavis with this news, I could squeal with excitement"

 

 

However I do think you are posting this on the wrong thread, try the Employment thread - always posts asking for groundies - 30,000 'military age' - so lets assume you know more than me that they are also fit and healthy  - would cut the shortage in workers here in a blink of an eye. That would be good wouldn't it?

You are embarrassing yourself again. Try posting something about arb or milling yourself SP. 

[5thelement]

1 minute ago, Johnsond said:

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A first class non political post by Christopher Stoner about this failed budget that does not serve...

Pretty much everyone I talk to feels the same. I’m good pals with a local farmer part owned part rented land. He’s 46 and has worked the land since childhood. It was a written that he’d inherit the farm, talking to him on Saturday and he’s literally on the verge of quitting as there zero chance he will be able to afford the IHT, they have just invested a fortune on new potato sheds and machinery. Absolutely up to eyeballs in debt. 
Labour government have not thought this out.

How much is this farm worth exactly? 
From what I understand, a farm has to be worth more than a million to qualify, a married couple would be 2 million/up to 3 million to pay IHT that everyone else in the country has to pay, which is a tiny amount of family farms in the UK. 

Farmers will be taxed at 20% rather than the 40% we would have to pay. 
Sounds like they are still getting a sweet deal compared with the rest of us. 

The way I see it, It’s not the government that is screwing the farmers, it’s the supermarkets with their record profits. 
 

[Steven P]

6 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

He repeats it because it is repetitive.

It is happening every single day.

 

And it needs to stop.

 

This is true, however telling an arborist forum the daily tally isn't going to change a single thing though is it? Winds up a few folk in the morning to improve their day... but nothing we read here will change anything really will it? For that you need to be putting pressure on the politicians, perhaps giving them suggestions for solutions, looking at the issue in depth rather than what the Daily Mail and Farages sound bites allow you to know.

 

I'd be very surprised if there is anyone who reads this thread isn't aware of the issues surrounding migration. So perhaps change the tune, highlight 'making the news today' with something we might not know about - whether it is serious or funny stuff.. but the same story again... and again... and tomorrow as well... Something where I can say to my colleagues "Did you see this" rather than "did you see this" and they push me out the van "Yes, you read that out from the forum yesterday as well, and every day last week, find something interesting to tell us"

[Johnsond]

3 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

How much is this farm worth exactly? 
From what I understand, a farm has to be worth more than a million to qualify, a married couple would be 2 million/up to 3 million to pay IHT that everyone else in the country has to pay, which is a tiny amount of family farms in the UK. 

Farmers will be taxed at 20% rather than the 40% we would have to pay. 
Sounds like they are still getting a sweet deal compared with the rest of us. 

The way I see it, It’s not the government that is screwing the farmers, it’s the supermarkets with their record profits. 
 

Sweet deal 😳 you think so 

380acres 

£10k an acre up here for good agricultural land plus buildings and assets etc 

 

 

[Johnsond]

13 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

So why don’t you do us all a favour and simply ignore all his posts, everyone else does. 👍

🤔 I’ve just replied to your reply 

[Steven P]

13 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Fool

Serious question, you keep quoting military age young males.. as if there is a hidden military force out there... so where is it hiding?

[Johnsond]

57 minutes ago, Steven P said:

However I can see the thrill in the D household on a Monday, just after you have finished knocking one out when your 2 favourite topic appear on the same news story

 

"Hey, D, can you take the kids to School"

"In a minute Mavis, I just have to post this on the Arborist forum, the guys will be as excited as me to know that Kier is going to do some effective border controls.... Yeah I know most will be setting up on site for a days work just now, it will keep them buzzing till lunch! So excited today Mavis with this news, I could squeal with excitement"

 

 

However I do think you are posting this on the wrong thread, try the Employment thread - always posts asking for groundies - 30,000 'military age' - so lets assume you know more than me that they are also fit and healthy  - would cut the shortage in workers here in a blink of an eye. That would be good wouldn't it?

The statistics for age and sex are on the government site if you want to know. 

[Johnsond]

1 minute ago, Steven P said:

Serious question, you keep quoting military age young males.. as if there is a hidden military force out there... so where is it hiding?

Who mentioned a hidden military force or the moors 🤷‍♂️you not me. 
Thereare enough examples of these unvetted illegal economic migrants murdering or committing crimes to know we have an issue 

Seems a few oddballs like you want to welcome all and sundry here with open arms.

 

 

[Johnsond]

15 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

This is true, however telling an arborist forum the daily tally isn't going to change a single thing though is it? Winds up a few folk in the morning to improve their day... but nothing we read here will change anything really will it? For that you need to be putting pressure on the politicians, perhaps giving them suggestions for solutions, looking at the issue in depth rather than what the Daily Mail and Farages sound bites allow you to know.

 

I'd be very surprised if there is anyone who reads this thread isn't aware of the issues surrounding migration. So perhaps change the tune, highlight 'making the news today' with something we might not know about - whether it is serious or funny stuff.. but the same story again... and again... and tomorrow as well... Something where I can say to my colleagues "Did you see this" rather than "did you see this" and they push me out the van "Yes, you read that out from the forum yesterday as well, and every day last week, find something interesting to tell us"

“ making the news today “ thread 

🤷‍♂️Not the news what you want I take it ??. You should read that post back to yourself and maybe you will realise the utter stupidity and arrogance of what you just wrote.

What’s happening in the channel should be headline news every night until it’s stopped “ by any means necessary, to hell with the ECHR “Unfortunately it’s become the norm with a hugely profitable tax payer funded industry growing up around it. 

Edited November 4, 2024 by Johnsond

[5thelement]

9 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Sweet deal 😳 you think so 

380acres 

£10k an acre up here for good agricultural land plus buildings and assets etc 

 

 

20% rather than 40%,  wouldn’t you take it? So it’s a sweet deal. 
I would expect all the farm debt to be involved in the valuing, so highly likely it would bring the farm under the IHT threshold for a married couple. 
Farms have been struggling for decades and currently are now, this has nothing to do with IHT that may or may not be applied at some point in the future.

Supermarket record profits and cheap imports, (30% of UK food is grown in Spain) is what is keeping farmers poor right now.