It’s also a bit irrelevant anyway because there won’t be another election until 2029 and by that point all the farmers will have seen that this whole thing was a nothing burger anyway. The ultra rich farmers ended up getting taxed, as they should always have, and everyone else ended up basically not been.
Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes
Submitted 3 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Streetlights@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Interesting take. Government policy should only favour loyal voters? Minority interest groups be damned?
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Hardly a new take.
It’s why labour did not care about the left post Corbyn.
Why the Tories ignore the poor. And both are happy to lump blame on immigrants or shaft the disabled.
FPTP makes it worse, as community size is more powerful. But PR would only improve it a little.
Larger, more loyal voting blocks will always have more power than smaller or overtly anti the current leadership.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Merely ignoring the poor would only be so bad (we’re used to doing without) but politicians around the world win votes by exploiting irrational hatred of the poor and actively making things worse.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Isn’t that reality? If then minority interest groups then they can be safely ignored.
It sucks but it’s true.
Also I like the idea that multi millionaires are a minority group, I mean they are a minority group, sadly, but they’re not really the kind of people you think about, when using the phrase minority group.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
That would be a decline in political culture, we don’t want that.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I might be wrong and would love to be corrected, but I’m under the impression that this tax change only affects the mega rich farmers
Are they pulling the wool over our eyes for their own gain?
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
As per usual most of this is Labour’s fault for being utterly awful at communication.
The problem is twofold, foam is only end up paying tax once their property is worth over 1 million pounds, estate agents always overestimate the value of land. So they’re being told the land is worth over 1 million pounds even though it obviously isn’t.
What is somewhat unclear is how exactly the government would determine that their assets are worth over 1 million pounds. In order to know how much the land was actually worth they would actually have to sell it which obviously poses some difficulties.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This.
I’m so tired of people on social media dismissing me (who has lived in the countryside my entire life) as a clueless citydweller whenever I speak about:
This farmland IHT debate
Foxhunting
Using pesticides that don’t mass-kill bees and other critical insects
People having a right to roam/being against landowners illegally blocking off public footpaths
The amount of land multimillionaires purposely keep barren just so they can go grouse-shooting
There’s this myth pushed predominantly by right wingers that everybody who doesn’t live in a highly urbanised area agrees with farmers on everything.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
They like to pretend that all farmers are gentlemen who wander around in tweed jackets and essentially live in the 1930s. Except I don’t think that was true even in the 1930s.