What we will see in the next 18 months is a rushed sell-off of farmland, likely to overseas developers. Those who remain in the industry will halt all investment. The countryside economy will slow, splutter and die. By April 2026, British farming will be a forgotten phrase.
You can read more about the inheritance tax just introduced by Labour in Britain where, from April 2026, farms worth more than £1million will be forced to pay a levy of 20 per cent when they pass on their assets.
There are suspicions about what the real driver is here, since the amounts of money that would be raised by the tax are a pimple on the backside of government spending:
Smaller family farms expect to go out of business leaving the way clear for the vultures of green energy and megafarms to pick at what is left. According to Shropshire dairy farmer Kelly Seaton, whose husband is a fourth-generation farmer: ‘This is on the back of Labour approving 7,000 acres of solar panels. This has increased land values and people fighting for land, while 56 per cent of non-farmers bought land in 2023, so that has increased land values.’
That sounds about right, and given the fact that such family farms are struggling to produce incomes that justify such land prices – Jeremy Clarkson’s 1,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds called Diddly Squat, made just £144 profit in its first year…
CLA found a typical 200-acre farm owned by one person with an expected profit of £27,300 would face a £435,000 inheritance tax bill…
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‘Most farmers are scraping by each year barely turning a profit, working 18 hours a day, seven days a week just to keep their heads above water….In a lot of areas, farmers can’t afford to buy farmland because they’re competing with big corporations buying farmland to offset their carbon footprint,’
Same here in NZ.
And let’s understand that this is not just a Labour Party thing: the Conservative government passed a compulsory purchase order agreement that means councils can buy land they want for ‘green energy’ cheaply.
The future likely is “megafarms”, as in the USA, combined with increasing reliance on foreign farming and those supply chains we discovered during the Great Chinese Lung Rot lockdowns.
Oh well, as one Labour asshole said:
Former political adviser to the Labour Party and Tony Blair, John McTernan. He suggested that farmers are superfluous and should face the same fate as mine workers. ‘We should do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners,’ he told GB News. ‘It’s an industry we can do without. If people are so upset that they want to go on to the streets and spray slurry, we don’t need small farmers.’
No Minister 
As the Groundswell slogan says -no farms, no food
We are steadily watching farmers been pushed off the land through unworkable regulations, and taxes amongst other ways. this is happening in the UK, Holland, and here as well.
The average city person thinks farmers are wealthy, and have too much money, so tend to go along with the Government narrative.
In truth, the value is only in the land itself.
If you looked at a farm purely as a bussiness proposition, you wouldn’t bother, because the return you get for the amount of capital you put into it is stuff all.
We are meant to believe that forests (carbon credits), solar panels etc, are the way of the future, but
in the end it’s all about control.
‘You will own nothing and be happy’ -or else according to the unelected whacko’s at the WEF.
To all the morons promoting wealth taxes here, on capital often accumulated using Tax paid money take note, the most caught in the draconian anti investment moves in UK based on an illusionary targeting of “inherited wealth” have no concept of how years of government created inflation have brought basic hard working savers into the net.