How Clarkson’s Farm Exposed The Farming Industry

[@phatmemer69]

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[@rod_at_adelaide5766]

No thanks, that site is asking for money. It has nothing to do with this video. Bloody hell, you can't trust anyone !

[@VanillaDin0saur]

Dude has never seen clarksons top gear. He always tore up the bbc

[@bobbah676]

Don't forget, the Top gear those 3 guys build, is the most profitable series to exist. Its made the BBC coffins overfloat.

[@danzansandeev6033]

@@bobbah676 coffers, i think you meant coffers XD

[@bobbah676]

@@danzansandeev6033 Nah petty pete, i know what i wrote.

[@user-ws3sl9xi7y]

That just don’t sound right. “He tore up the BBC.”

[@VanillaDin0saur]

@@user-ws3sl9xi7y we call that being a top gear fan.

[@Klockorino]

James May: Traveling the world, making gin and gin related content, owning a pub. Richard Hammond: Running a classic car restoration garage, learning how to race classic cars. Jeremy Clarkson: *The unexpected figurehead of British farming*

[@realcastironstrength]

TONIGHT HAMMOND WRESTLES WITH A SPANNER MAY GETS DRUNK AND PLAYS CHESS AND I START A SOCIAL REVOLUTION

[@christofferothen7537]

There is an expression in Sweden, Farmers live poor but die rich.

[@Thaisistercunny]

I don’t get it

[@christofferothen7537]

@@Thaisistercunny They have a lot of assets in form of land and equipment that is worth a lot of money. But they don´t have a lot of cash since a big chunk of it is always beeing used or saved for intended use on fertilizer, seeds, diesel, etc. So when they are alive, farming "they are poor" since most of their money goes twards their buissness. But when they die and people divide and sell their assets there is a lot of value to be had. So they

[@dongatello6969]

@@ThaisistercunnyI think it’s talking about how farmers operate on such small margins they don’t have a lot of cash to spend because it all goes back into the farm. The dying rich I’m guessing has to do with the farm equipment being sold because it’s no longer needed idk.

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

Half true. I think it is the same as here in the Netherlands. Farmers and greengrowers live on a budget for 40+ years to make ends meet. They cannot afford leaving their company unattended for long too, so they tend to not go on a small holiday unless its organised long beforehand. But once they either quit or pass on, then their property gets taxed to the max. The land, the equipment, the animals, it all is worth something and it will all be taxed in some way. Now about the video, the farmers in question are already taxed when they die before they can give their farm to someone else. But the farm is a company property so it is normally excempt from taxation when you die, the inheritance tax is supposed to now tax the company too.

[@kacperb_618]

@@Thaisistercunnyfarmers are cash poor, asset rich

[@princecortez1418]

so the plot for Clarkson's Farm Season 4 is Diddly Squat Farm overthrowing the UK government lmao

[@Kuria_zhaints]

atp might as well right 😂

[@HowToSpec]

Hopefully so haha. Jeremy for prime minister! We’d get less tax, more V8 and v12 engines, no speed limits or cameras!

[@a_channel2545]

I demand that Jeremy put Gerald in charge of border security!

[@MrBlonde294]

i don't mind

[@spartanalex9006]

@HowToSpec No, let this Yank dream for you. All Hail Emperor Jeremy I of the House of Clarkson.

[@mountainmanjake]

The fact that Clarkson’s Farm has more views than The Rings Of Power makes me unbelievably happy 😂

[@rayh5838]

I find it hard to believe rings of power has viewers...

[@TheMeepster72]

It's also personal for Clarkson. He worked for the BBC for a decades and knows most of the people there.

[@garyrowe58]

He bought a farm to avoid tax, and is still trying to avoid tax

[@Green_Tea_Coffee]

Good for him. Taxation is theft.

[@mercenarygundam1487]

You know, it's sad that ALL THIS TIME, No one SEEMS to get the bloody message. Farmers and the working class are the life blood of a nation. Treat them well and you can ensure prosperity among your nation. It's NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!

[@stuarthynes6136]

It's just revenue to politicians that need to top up their coffers after giving non citizens all the benefits, all the rights. Imagine how many illegal immigrants could camp out on all that farmland.... and vote.

[@masterfish8751]

all the uk farming industry is is people who refuse to sell land to keep generational wealth and to avoid inheritance tax (if we have to pay in order to die so should they). they were also the primary voter base for brexit (they voted for it and now winge that it fucked them over). UK farmers have too much power in politics and need to have some powers taken they ruin roads and never clean them. Farmers need to realise they arnt above others but that'll never happen if they keep receiving special treatment based off the fact that they are land owners

[@duckface81]

@@stuarthynes6136 here we go again with the immigration bs

[@HARTTG]

@duckface81is he wrong though?

[@duckface81]

@@HARTTG yes

[@zacksilverstone7642]

Irish. Potato. Famine. You'd think the British would have learn that by now, but NOOOOO!!! Apparently they're quite eager to get the "guillotine" treatment.

[@mohebbi71]

why would they have learned, someone else paid the price.

[@krisc4219]

Ask the French how to set one up

[@TheGraveyarder]

they tend to ignore those "mass casualties events" unless jews are involved

[@adamc7844]

Obsessed.

[@FredrikHennestad]

The famine was do to poor infrastructure making it impossible to get food to places outside of the cities not the Brits starving them on purpose. The food exported from Ireland was animal feed and high quality food (mostly meat) the was sold so they could import cheaper food (grain potatoes) that could not be transported to the areas that needed it do to what i said previously said.

[@onehandgaming-c6r]

Hammond & May: "Would you like to drink my new gin in my pub." "Yes please, that would be wonderful." Clarkson: "VIVA LA REVOLUTION!"

[@gobshitescholarship7043]

Both of them have spoken out against the inheritance tax through interviews/social media.

[@fasterthansound13]

hilarious

[@B0RN2RACE100]

It should be written in French, historically speaking it’s a lot scarier

[@GMDL]

I can almost hear Clarkson shouting this..

[@marmedalmond9958]

And the revolution makes a mess in May's pub. And may Screams CLARKSON!!!

[@gachibassunlimited3930]

the fact Kier Starmer tweeted the blackrock stuff, we are doomed as an island.

[@racingraptor4758]

BlackRock is a death sign to anything

[@drewschumann1]

You've been doomed for quite some time.

[@itxi]

I used to live on a small family farm (200 acres) and we were dirt poor through my whole childhood. We only got money once I graduated, and my father became an electrician, there is no money for small farms and a lot of families are struggling. It's a privilege having that much land but it's not an easy life

[@Permuh]

I'm a city person who never liked farmers while growing up, I would 100% agree on Starmers self-destructive policies on farmers. Now that I've lived and worked in farmer country for years, I've done a complete 180 on these things and I see the reality that they live with. I fear the establishments want farmlands to be sold to big coorporations/governments where people are working exclusively for a wage rather than for their own economical interest. To force people working in farms to work the hours of the day that farmers do, they would have to give them financial incentives that would simply not be viable if we didn't incentivise their salaries to be very good. Government tried to take control of farming a century ago, it doesn't end particularly well.

[@Snozcumbers]

You are talking absolutely rubbish

[@EdgyNumber1]

Nonsense. People like Clarkson and Dyson get into farming for the tax dodge (Dyson famously leaving the UK for the Singapore tax dodge,) meanwhile squeezing out the real farmers that genuinely care about the profession. This pushes up land prices for those that want to do this full time as a career. About big corporate farms, I'm pretty sure EU rules will have prevented this. The French hold big sway on this since there are a multitude of independent farmers and dairies that want to protect their lands from the predatory big corporations. It would've been made very difficult from within the single market.

[@Permuh]

@@EdgyNumber1 talking about Clarkson and Dyson makes you miss the whole discussion about what this is about. You want to tax the rich? Sure. But don't call farmers rich.

[@Snozcumbers]

@@Permuh sat on millions of pounds of assets and turnovers million a year but they are poor. Okay buddy.

[@Permuh]

@Snozcumbers you speak of assets and turnover, but the only thing that matters is profit and spare time off work. Talk about never seen a farmer before

[@chimchim2_]

7:18 Kaleb is far sharper than the show let's on.

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

Uh, the show shows him being extremely sharp and rambling facts like he does here. He is usually a bit more, emotional in his delivery

[@chimchim2_]

@MrDwarfpitcher I'm inky half way thru season 2 so maybe I've yet to witness this. He appears sharp in farming related topics, but the geopolitics it was surprised me.

[@danzansandeev6033]

@@chimchim2_ but it's not geopolitics really, it's still about farming, just in a broader sense.

[@chimchim2_]

@danzansandeev6033 you don't consider Russias invasion of Ukraine and the impact it has on food production and farming around the world geopolitical?

[@danzansandeev6033]

@@chimchim2_ i meant that since it affects farming that's how he knows about it. it's farming adjacent. man didn't know who moses was in a christian country i mean cmon XD

[@NSBadmuts]

As a farmer in the Netherlands I sympathize with this. They're doing the same thing over here. Just purging the countryside to make room for big investors and fucking windmills.

[@JasperKlijndijk]

Windmills in the netherlands famous for windmills? Who would have tought

[@jannovak5481]

It's like Netherlands is near the ocean where is good chance of ideal wind so they rather build windmills instead of building more coal plants. Wierd, who would have thought.

[@ShEsHy]

I'm confused. If fields can have telegraph poles in the middle of them, why not windmills? It's not like the blades reach down so low that they'd interrupt farming. If anything, one would think placing fields around wind farms would be a great utilisation of space.

[@NotTheRealRustyShackleford]

​@@ShEsHy You know those windmills literally spew oil everywhere right? Moving parts need lubrication, and I've seen this happening first hand in the US...

[@Feroce]

@@jannovak5481 Or they could go nuclear and have less of an environmental impact and generate power more reliably and make more productive use of all that land, like for farming.

[@thomasdodd2548]

As a farmer myself, I admire Clarkson for sticking up for the industry, despite the flaws. The government has got the figures totally wrong, family farms are going to be wiped out within a couple generations. It sucks, because alot of farmers I know gave Labour a chance this election, only to see be completely screwed over by a government who members have never worked a day in their lives on a farm. In fact, I'm willing to bet not one of the commenters backing these taxes has farmed anything in their entire lives either!

[@diegolove173]

Bullshit ! You are sitting on Millions young people don't want to farm anymore , Farmers now are not using their land and wait for Barratts home, Taylor Wimpy .... to put a bid on their land and the highest bidders give that farmers millions so please stop with your nonsense ! We've seen Farmers greed thanks to HS2 and Harry's garage yes that millionaire farmer on youtube who goes to dubai , monaco to drive his exotic cars 3 or 4 times a year ! Farm workers like Kaleb Cooper are the real victim but not you !

[@ThexMJT]

The land the farms sit on is where the money is, even if the farm itself is not highly profitable. The issue is a farm can be valued at £5m but only makes a profit of say £60k a year (or alot less) the farms value is then passed onto the next generation who do not want to farm, and sell the land to a developer for the value of the land, that is what is trying to be targeted, to stop very wealthly land owners passing their valulable land for someone in future to cash in on. The tax isn't a cash grab on farmers, as only meant to raise £500m, it is to stop rich people avoiding tax. The value of farms isn't determined by their income, instead by land. Farmers ruined themselves voting for Brexit, and then prior government took all the funding away from the Farmers also, Clarkson's comments in the sun are inflamintory and baiting (thought better than that) but it is the sun. How much food do we produce compared to how much we need?

[@TheGreyManID]

@@ThexMJT We got a socialist lefty in the comments here, let me clear up some confusion. Brexit was a deliberate screw up by our MPs who were sour the people democratically voted to be independant. The Tory party may have created a "22bn black hole" but Labour are spending DOUBLE that on idiotic woke policies that do nothing for the economy, national debt OR WORKING PEOPLE. You say the tax isnt a tax grab but thats exactly what TAX is, couple it with a socialist communist party like labour or any mainstream party for that matter and you end up with greedy, cruel policies made by the same people who are the cause of this whole problem. Dont blame Farmers, blame the MP's who created this whole problem all whilst lining their own pockets.

[@thomasdodd2548]

@ThexMJT Respectfully, we don't "sit" on the land, we work it. Ploughing, drilling, rolling, spreading fertiliser and muck. Some people have it in their heads that all farmers do is smoke cigars and sit in a tractor cab every one in a while. It's a massive amount of work, he'll July through to mid October we don't have a real day off! And if the weather is bad, you cattle get TB, you get badly hurt in one of the most dangerous industry's in the country, you're combine catches fire? You can be ruined. It's alot of work and stress and expense, less to do with Brexit and more so COVID sending machinery prices soaring and fertiliser costs going up due to war in Ukraine, and Labour deciding to increase the tax on it. Many farmers don't want to sell up, but under all that and a big fat offer from a developer it's no surprise that some do sadly. Also we produce 64% of our own food, including 80% of our wheat so aye, think you should back the farmers on this one.

[@goodmorning-pf2se]

​@@ThexMJTfarmers need their land to ensure the wellbeing of their livestock. The large farms generating the most income are the ones that have thriving animals with the best efficiency in production. They contribute the most to our food supply and ensure the best quality and safety of our food. Sheep and cattle don't just live in tiny sheds. They need fields. Multiple fields. A lot of farms also harvest their own silage for animals. The lands are not pointless and do not equal money. They are essential for their farming livestyle and the public's food supply.

[@4138channel]

10:45 those comments have given me brain cancer.

[@yaraelpoof7242]

Has a nafo profile picture the universal sign your about to here a stupid opinion

[@Cloud_Seeker]

Yeah. It just goes to show that a lot of people have no idea what they are talking about.

[@_.blake._]

clarkson ripped the bbc apart for 15 years while working there on top gear and continued tearing them up during the GT and now clarksons farm days

[@Feroce]

That's blue checkmarks for ya. They almost always have the worst opinions.

[@midimanify]

Our farmers are heroes!

[@noone-qg1od]

Bit strong

[@thomasmcd81]

Heroes still need to pay their taxes

[@CoalChrome]

​@@thomasmcd81inheritance tax shouldn't be one of them

[@apollopham3256]

@@thomasmcd81even taxes that literally destroy livelihoods?

[@MCD10000]

and all I ask is Tractor's not put tractor onto A roads

[@Dropped2436]

there's a lot of talk about him buying a farm to avoid tax. Now if he originally bought a farm to do this is up to debate but he's spent a ridiculous amount of money on his farm and, if he was trying to avoid tax, I don't think he would have done that

[@Defender200tdi]

He spent the money to make a TV program not to become a serious farmer

[@Dropped2436]

​@@Defender200tdi good point but he said he decided to start farming (on a fairly small scale) and then realised that he could make a show out of it (and then decided to go all out on spending insane amounts of money on the farm). It is Clarkson though so I shouldn't take everything that he says as what actually happened, so there's a chance (a fairly small one but still) that he planned to make the show all along

[@FL_2000O]

​@Dropped2436 Clarkson has stated several times the reason he bought the farm. The old farmer couldn't afford it anymore, he purchased the farm and paid the old farmer to keep farming. He bought the farm because it is a beautiful area and he wanted a legal place to shoot and to be able to own guns, something not easy in the UK, but is marginally easier if you own a farm. He started the show because the old farmer retired and he was interested in giving it a shot and was anticipating the end of The Grand Tour, something the trio had talked about for years.

[@Defender200tdi]

@@FL_2000O if you want to shoot you buy land in Scotland. Land owners there have a legal obligation to manage the deer population so you have just cause for firearms. Sounds like Clarkson is trying to disown his own statement now he realises what a turkey he is for broadcasting the Tax benefits. Maybe if he'd not highlighted the point?

[@FL_2000O]

@Defender200tdi he never once advertised or stated anything about "tax benefits", in fact he bemoaned the taxes and fees and stupid regulations instituted quite frequently on his show. You do not know at all what you are talking about

[@Liger8877]

sorry you guys have to deal with black rock now:( here in the us one of the things they do is buy up all of these houses then rent them out making nearly impossible to become a homeowner

[@MillhouseSpeaks]

We need a video on Gregg Wallace

[@mattstormtornado]

probably will once more info comes out.

[@napoleonbonerfarte6739]

Remember when he coated his bollocks in fondant on MasterChef kids

[@InfusedMaltesers]

Wallace ftw

[@tomtom21194]

Who gives a fuck tho?

[@Colin-px6il]

Strange request? Why would you like to see a video like that? Are you into that sort of thing?

[@evana1112]

It’s nice to see that he is trying to use his platform to helping benefit his fellow citizens, his community and his country. A country that can’t feed its self is a country that will die and be taken over as all they would have to do is stop sending you food…

[@AcridCrowd]

Most countries don't sustain themselves with their own farming, we haven't for decades

[@-Cancer-]

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[@freedompodcast4518]

Ty

[@tomgibbs4552]

Come on people, surely you all know better than this. If we lose our farms then you'll all be crying when we have no food!

[@mattgraham1983]

Actually what will happen is the cost of food will significantly increase, there will always be food weather you can afford the food is another question

[@Mikalent]

But think of the UK's ESG scores, and if a few tens of millions of peasants die during the glorious communist revolution (what I assume is their goal since the labour party took down the portrait of England's first economic minister and replaced it with a portrait of the Co-founder of the British communist party) then so be it.

[@sznikers]

I wont... cause i will take one of those small boats and swim the other way the very week it happens 😂

[@jagolago-bob]

It wouldn't be an end to farms. If anything, there might be more farmers in the future, because the massive farms will be broken up and not interesting to investors. Smaller farms will probably do better than now, as long as they value them fairly, or maybe use acreage for the inheritance tax limit.

[@Mikalent]

@jagolago-bob the issue it that it is not just the land, it's also the equipment needed to work the land. And since your income is directly tied to how much usable land you have, you reach a point where the costs are so high in machinery, permits, taxes, maintenance, all costs that don't go down with less land, that it becomes impossible to keep your head above water unless you are working a regular 9-5, and if you are working a regular 9-5 then farm chores aren't going to get done, meaning smaller (if any) harvests. That or you go back to scythe and sickle, which isn't exactly viable in the age of drones and tractors, but at least then you don't have to pay for machinery, you just exist as a subsistence farmer (maybe) but you still have to pay permits and land tax.

[@MrKrill614]

The problem is how the Government uses the tax dollars, not to improve infrastructure or the quality of life of the citzens but to send it overseas to another country

[@Defender200tdi]

sounds like your overseas

[@Lukey-jy4ez]

Gentleman famers have pumped millions and millions into their farms to avoid tax. This has ruined it for the legacy farming families.

[@spencerduerst3771]

I'm an American farm kid. To me this is crazy for trying to make things more expensive for the farmers.

[@panzerwafflez7228]

The issue is that there are two types of "farmers": Theres actual farmers who grow the food that is needed to run the country, and there are "farmers" or rich AF people like CEOs, celebrities, bankers, etc who just buy land to avoid paying tax. Britain has an official term for these assholes, called: "Gentlemen farmers." Sure maybe this policy that the British government wants to add is being implemented wrong and will hurt ACTUAL farmers but I get the sentiment on where this legislation is coming from.

[@cstephen98]

The UK is pushing the family farms out in the flavour of institutional farming with farmers converted from owners to employees. If I was a UK farmer, I'd be looking to get into a 'niche' or form a collective to start a new industry where the farm's products can be converted into value-added products rather than raw materials for others, always leaving them at a disadvantage. Basically, farmers need to either band together to become a collective company that they control or be pushed out and controlled by outside investors. Ideally, with government help to transition but I'm afraid it'll be supporting the companies instead (easier to work with and get bribes from them)

[@poonchild]

How will James Dyson cope, eh?

[@Bodcut]

No it isn't,for to long landowner farmers have gotten away with not paying fwiy for years,they wanted to leave Europe as well a d has been a disaster for the uk

[@valkyrie941]

We need to push out the government they clearly don't care about British people only the migrant hordes and big business.

[@mathewbrown5047]

​​@@Bodcut??? It's an inheritance tax if it's an industrial farm this will not affect them as that's a company not a family run industry also even large farms operate on a very small profit margin so no if anything this is just gonna make it easier for industrial farms and realtors to buy the land when the farmers family goes bankrupt. If you want to target large land owners ranking in cash make it a tax tied to how much actual cash the person owns not the value of the property or just send inspections and do an inquiry to see if the land is actually being used for large scale farming and not that the property owner just has some sheep and a few cows.

[@FL_2000O]

​@@Bodcutdo you not understand how farming works, or are you just evil?

[@944steph]

J Clarkson is only the face of the protest to the media, desperately looking for the drama storyline rather than the actual facts. The organisers planned the protest after several meetings with the Met Police and other parties. Who had a say on which street to close and for how long? I know that is true because one of the prominent faces of the protest does a daily agriculture KZbin blog of his day, The NFU organised the Meet Your MP event at Parliament, and the farm protest was separate. Farmers brought their kids, some speakers, and the 6 or 7 tons of food given to the food bank that was asked to attend. BPR and APR won't bring in the money they think it will, but it will do the damage they brush aside. No one minds paying taxes on windfalls or profits, but it's not there in farming. The value of land is set mainly by people, not in agriculture. It is one of the only businesses where you don't know how much it will cost to produce the product, but the buyer then tells the producer how much they will pay for that product. Conservatives have lied, cheated, and scammed their way through government for years. The Labour Party comes telling us they are different, then picks up the same lying, cheating, and scammy ways of the previous years. I would never vote for something like Ukip, so I have to put on my vote slit "none of the above" as I feel now.

[@youkosm]

So what are the real numbers ? As in I understand increasing taxes where you have not had to pay one before, but I also don't think the system currently is fair. Anything new with hours or similar assets that get inherited for the same value as a farm have to pay, and have to pay in one go. No options to pay across 5 years. Also if the farm can the signed over to your children and after 7 years you pay no CGT.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@youkosm The issue is inheritance tax really. No-one likes it for obvious reasons.

[@PaintAndPlayWithJay]

A few things have been a little frustrating about this conversation... Firstly, if Farmer's deserve punishment because 50-60% of them voted for Brexit (insane in itself with EU grants and food standards) - then doesn't everyone deserve to be punished as well? Sadly, majority of this entire country voted for Brexit. So why should just farmers be punished for having a similar voting pattern to literally everyone else? Secondly, farmers are asset rich and cash poor. Their margins are increasingly getting tighter for their produce as supermarkets are forcing them to sell cheap whilst making huge margins on their end, then any money they do make tends to get reinvested back into their farm. People talk about them being millionaires because of their assets but the problem with that is that it's millions of pounds of expensive and specific farm equipment. If they sold it they'd have a lot of money, but we'd have no means to produce in this country.

[@SabertoothDeathmouse]

@1:06 you can see former Top Gear presenter and current farmer Jeremy Clarkson overseeing former Prime Minister David Cameron performing his husbandly duties to his girlfriend from university.

[@AKK5I]

😂

[@sirguy6678]

Excellent video! Wait- aren’t the royal family the largest land owners in England? Just tax the royal family- or just take the land. It’s a lot easier to take land from one family than taking the land of many.

[@jab2505]

It's interesting how many things in Great Britain are mirrored in America.

[@moohooman]

Thats the thing, a lot of people who criticise him are looking at the show too shallowly. Yes he is a multimillionaire, but its pretty bad if a multimillionaire starts a farm and can barely break even on his yield. What does that say about the situation the average british farmer is facing.

[@Jason-jb3xt]

If the UK government wanted to fill that hole in the budget they would cut the civil servants the hire. There's over 500000 civil servants that make an average of 34k a year cut half of them and that £8 500 000 000 in one cut. Then cut nhs spending on health tourist, if you're not paying into the system you don't benefit from it.

[@kaasappel123]

And then the economy dies and so do allot of people who can't effort Healthcare and the economy dies even more

[@alexeikotov7769]

King Charles III didn't pay the inheritance tax because it was deemed inappropriate for him to do so. Stay classy UK👍.

[@jab2505]

Over here, Monsanto copyrights seeds. The class war is starting to go public.

[@matthewdaub]

The fact they have to pay a carbon emissions take on fertilizer is insane.

[@1998goodboy]

My bro Dan hodges outright using that tripped bracket on himself 😂 10:26

[@freedompodcast4518]

Inheritance tax should not be a thing at all! I don't care how rich or poor you are that money should go to your family not to the government.

[@sirdetmist3204]

Tax in general shouldn't exist for the majority of people. People spend most of their money, that all goes back into the economy. Tax is a nonsense. Just look at things like VAT.

[@piotrzareba7876]

i would delete all tax and left only one PIT and nothing more VAT and inheritance tax would be first to fly out of the windows

[@sirdetmist3204]

@@piotrzareba7876 VAT is a joke. I earn money and you tax me. I spend it and then you tax me again.

[@bhavjotkang8004]

The problem is without it it creates a class system

[@sirdetmist3204]

@@bhavjotkang8004 And with it it keeps everyone who isnt rich down.

[@B0RN2RACE100]

Truckers in the USA are the equivalent of farmers in the UK, they need us, but we get abuse from all ends.

[@FL_2000O]

Farmers in the USA get it too, just we aren't as urban as the UK, so it's not as bad

[@B0RN2RACE100]

@ I know. I work with a lot of farmers

[@TheKillerStove]

As a guy who works maintenance at a meat packing plant, just want to say I appreciate the work you guys do. You guys face long hours under tight deadlines so we can get what we need where we need it.

[@Tropicoboy]

Same thing is happening to land in Canada our neighbor is having to cut down the forest of her land and sell the acreage to afford to keep it annually. Her 100 acres is a burden

[@sidineybottega1837]

The biggest problem is that people never listen to those who understand things. These are sectors of society that are unable to reach an agreement that benefits everyone due to pure and simple stubbornness and egocentrism. Both sides, without exception. It’s the never-ending cycle of “I won’t let go of the bone even if I die” and “I know how, because yes”.

[@markk3453]

the 2 guys behind Clarkson SHOULD BE the faces of farming since they KNOW 100% whats going on.

[@Neopolmilk]

These comments make me sad. I wish y’all were farmers and saw what I/Clarkson see. Give it a try, most y’all won’t last a few months

[@kieranmorgan4114]

I support you so much I know I wouldn't last and that you guys do this every day is incredible thank you

[@strangeflavouredquark7393]

Working farms should definitely be exempt from inheritance tax. Its an important to have a distinction between them and the toffs who are just buying up land to avoid tax.

[@TMcCarrick]

Whilst it is in ROI, I would pay to see it. My Uncle owns and runs a dairy farm. It is in no way lucrative at all. Farmers feed us for minimal benefit and this is how they are treated.

[@poonchild]

Thanks for your efforts, Mr Dyson.

[@jasoncampbell293]

didn't he state he was using it to avoid tax? surely closing these loops holes will actually benefit proper farmers as rich city folk will stop trying to buy up land

[@anthonosrobertos]

Clarksons interview with Victoria Derbyshire can just go down as another one of his infamous gaffs where he did nothing but spout hyperbole and try and incite the crowd by asking them to raise their hands if they feel affected by this budget. Kaleb made it clear he also has a limited understanding of anything outside a farm yard, you see that if you watch the show. The only one speaking some sense and actually quoting facts and figures was Charlie.

[@matthewdaub]

Top gear had so many anti BBC jokes since the begging of the show. Clarkson getting fired didn't spur him to be anti BBC. He always has been.

[@neggo4290]

Change the title to: how Clarkson's farm exposed how the EU ruling destroyed the small farming businesses and helped unhealthy food production

[@kaasappel123]

EU ruling? England ain't in the EU

[@neggo4290]

@kaasappel123 as specified in an episode, while the UK has got out of the EU they still apply to their general rules in the farming sector (I suppose in other sectors too) Wich even Clarkson said to be bullshit and I totally agree.

[@kaasappel123]

@neggo4290 that is because the EU wants a high standard which you should agree with because otherwise you'll get allot of poison in your food...

[@jarek0737]

You will keep being taxed and taxed again on the tax. Until you say no.

[@Rory20uk]

It's astounding how the "asset rich and cash poor" expect sympathy from "asset poor and cash poor". There is no right for the few to own the countryside.

[@tsugoaokigiri3754]

The thing those comments didnt understand is that yes theyre simple quests and such,but not important, just trying to use the simple questions to deflect, get your prefered answer etc etc, we all do it in our life weather we realise it or not for instance at work

[@CalebGough2010]

Please support us No farmers No food

[@davidkovacs5432]

The EU has some of the strongest protections for farmers… I guess the new and better independent UK, that was promised hasn’t quite materialized

[@alastairatcheson1407]

You forget about the protests in EU countries by farmers?

[@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo]

you EUphiles are clowns. Europe has shit itself with the Ukraine issue, Multiple other nations having farming protests. EU countries slowly drifting to Alt right parties.. But yeah the EU you love is just rainbows and cuddles isn't it.

[@escape2nirvana]

@@alastairatcheson1407didn’t say they were perfect but overall still better than England

[@spencersanderson1894]

Land prices in France compared to England is mental, it’s so much cheaper there, if land prices were the same over here then everyone would be killing it with profits. Perhaps we need to get rid of the 1% of people in the country who own 50% of the land. That might be a good place to start.

[@CharlesYeo-qs6nb]

@@spencersanderson1894French farmers own 50% of the land and make up 1% of the population.

[@boricualink]

Every season of clarksons farm ends with them adding up the prophets and costs and ending on a dour note. Except they always, every single time brush aside the subdisidies. They mention them but never provide a figure for how much they recieve. Probably because it wouldnt make you sympathize as much.

[@XanderDDS]

Clarkson's right.

[@lachlanchester8142]

No he is not

[@-chrisburke]

@@lachlanchester8142 wokey!

[@Jesus_H._Tap-DancingChrist]

Was he lying about wanting to shoot pheasants or is he lying about using a loophole to avoid inheritance tax?

[@longfang98]

@@lachlanchester8142 Yes he is

[@thomasmcd81]

@@longfang98wrong again

[@JackSparrowTheCAPTAIN]

13:20 Kier Starmer + BlackRock and Bill Gates is a dead giweaway to be fair.

[@sdgfsdfagsdfgdsfhsdfghd]

You can't even be bloody racist at Greggs nowadays without the wokerati throwing a tantrum

[@alexs-zq6ni]

Jezza ain't perfect, the producer in question had it coming. Clarkson drove through the BBC office in a Peel P50

[@MrWhateverfits]

Well seeing as Rachael here did even outlast a head of lettuce thats saying a lot.

[@Jarrosnshajahwh]

Clarksons a legend ❤

[@HockeyMasterBroHMB]

Avoiding taxes shouldn't be ground upon given how miss used tax payer money is. Owning land and especially if out to use like gaming should be protected

[@jeniko2841]

Sell your land and farm equipment and come make a farm here in the US. We would be glad to have more farmers. 😊

[@Frckoff]

So the crux of this whole video. The UK government got bought out by BlackRock and gates.

[@DmanDmax]

The more assblasted people about Clarkson in the comments, the more right he is lol.

[@amyhart903]

We shouldn't blame natural fertilizer we should blame artificial

[@krazykorean2525]

everyone bitching about family farms but overlook that britain like all countries is under the toe of the industrial farm and the actual like mega farms. buying farmland is also a tax dodge. like i see what they are trying to do and frankly i think that farmers should be fighting teh corps and the millionaires buying up land they don't do much with it and let it just be a vanity/tax dodge.

[@trstmeimadctr]

Everyone wants to classify Clarkson as either a bull or champion, but both groups need to realize that speaking for what you believe in and doing uncouth things spur-of-the-moment are just normal human things, which is exactly what he is

[@jagolago-bob]

He's anything but normal.

[@kodakomp]

Good luck on Airstrip 1!

[@bomain1888]

Love clarksons farm but he’s got no points and just gets angry at reporters for asking sensible questions.

[@geronimo5537]

I sit here in America and I honestly feel glad at times to not deal with the UK's laws or government. Their government actively cripple all forms of domestic production of good. Just look it up. The UK's worth is almost that of Poland. By 2030 Poland will be surpassing the UK in wealth and production. That is pretty sad how just 30 years ago a broke combloc country could overtake them; and start sponging the talented people to move from the UK into Poland for better living. We have similar issues in the US. We are still paying dearly for all the manufacturing and production closures in the 50s through 70s. Steel and oil production being one of our biggest losses. Don't lose your ability to produce Britian. Or you will become another nothing burger in the say of the world like the other smaller countries.

[@Defender200tdi]

Too late, the right wing politicians messed up the UK in the 70's and 80's by privatising anything state owned and allowing industry to collapse.

[@jagolago-bob]

It's too late for us. Margaret Thatcher basically started destroying our industry at the start of the 80s and turned us into a banking and finance country- A few wealthy bankers paying little tax, and now most of our industry has gone. Hopefully it will change, but it will take a very long time to rebuild what we once had. It's very sad.

[@QuietRiverBear]

Once they start a tax, even if it starts at the top, “the top” gets redefined downward as time moves on. The only logically fallacy in the “slip slope” is arguing that it’s a fallacy.

[@VannrithSourisVa]

wherever you are, grow your own food as much as you can, don't rely on import completely.

[@_erondel4563]

I could say I was shocked that Blackrock and Gates would appear, but...no, i'm really not.

[@billpetersen298]

The family farm, is an integral part of national security.

[@realdanielhorvath]

Why I am not surprised Clarkson has a Lamborghini Tractor?

[@jackcowling5969]

Funny how when the BBC Clarkson kicked off but when asked the same by other journalists he didn’t kick off

[@stuarthynes6136]

Would be interesting to tax politicians based on their net worth increase after entering politics... 50% annually sound ok??

[@Dimension137]

heritance tax should be scrapped why should the government take your inheritance when they're not even related to you and have no right to it

[@freedompodcast4518]

14:03 How in the devil will that help out British farmers if you wasting your money on foreign farmers Keir Stalin?

[@kal7160]

This whole comment section reminds me every time a politician in the US introduces a tax plan that'd only affect folks making 500k a year and 90% of the folks who complain about it would never be affected by it.

[@sqwalnoc]

Except in this case, farmers going out of business would effect everyone. We all need food

[@sznikers]

So you have a farm passed down for generations, it's small farm in shit hole village, after all the costs you make maybe 30-40k a year while working physically demanding and dangerous job, often for 50-60h a week. It's also your family home for generations so you shouldn't be expected to abandon it. Suddenly few rich snobs decide to build their villas in your village, this goes on for a decade or two. Now government decides that your land is worth god know how many millions even though it only netts you mediocre 30k-40k a year. Then they decide to put inheritance tax on you cause you're rich privileged brat 😂 I have better idea, throw all the actually rich twats out of villages back to their cities so that agricultural land is again valued at level that matches £ you can earn from farming it. Oh wait! Where all those BBC talking heads and MPs have their first/second homes? Yeah that's not gonna happen...

[@AshGodfrost]

I mean, the BBC tried to make it about Clarkson instead of avoit the issue.

[@orvisthompson6641]

I’m an American and upset yall are giving my government too many ideas. Bleeding farmers never ends well

[@wartank9941]

I feel they could get more budget if they decrease funds one something useless like maybe their rubbish politicians

[@sqwalnoc]

And stop sending so much money overseas. And sack like 40% of the civil service

[@henwood122]

I wonder how many farmers forced to rent there farms are now secretly really happy about this tax on land owners 😂

[@jmsBungz]

Farmers who have river access should let people fish from their land and earn extra money within reason with the Angler's.

[@zeppelinshy]

a large amount of the western Europe is trying to delete farming because its cheaper to import and given how all of us have declined, the UK really has. Like in its how industry since Margaret. Look at how we was so good at engineering in the past but now we are stuffed if another country collapses. While its not (mega) bad right now who knows for the future, what if 'x' country collapses and the cheaper labour ceases operation then we are stuffed. We need some domestic (gdp out side of London) production to keep going but many governments think people dont need to eat as there is cheaper labour out there. This can result in so many issues like accidental modern day slavery. But good havens our people should be better. ay I am too high to explain it right now but we really are trying to erase farmers in most modern Europe food for cheap labour in other parts of the world or cheaper struggling European countries instead from another country so another country suffers in the long run instead of fixing our issues locally in the early stages. I think in my life time that long off dystopian future movies may semi come into reality but I am glad I'll uninstall life before it comes too bad given how it is going or total country collapse will make me wait to see how it turns out

[@xvadmins5689]

“where did you get 96% from? “ did she forget she said 4% of the uk population pay inheritance tax?

[@historicalaccounts3550]

How tf did Protonmail sponsor this video?

[@thatmitsubishikid2498]

Wrote a small paper on him for a college essay, got a 100

[@donjoncherrywon]

Best series streaming

[@T4G95]

Asset rich cash poor = farmers dodging taxes by purchasing more farming equipment/land/stock with most of the money they earn to grow their business without that pesky tax. If they were starving they would sell some of their stuff. They don’t… they leave themself enough cash to survive and cry poor and spend the rest on growing the business for tax free gains.

[@Nicholas-d8x]

A few acre is a small family farm, a hundred acres is a large family farm a thousand acres is a rich man's assets....spin it anyway you like, but they are using a tax loophole and don't like the fact it's will go away

[@shadowbab457]

How much inheritance tax does the royal family pay when they transfer power?

[@onehandgaming-c6r]

Did Caleb and Charlie knew what they are gonna be doing this when starting the show?

[@papascrumpeeh]

Thought I clicked on a sunnyV2 video for a second lol

[@valkyrie941]

Rise up common English men and women, rise up farmers take back the land that we fought so hard to keep in the past.

[@jayteetwo]

It it too late to undo brexit?

[@dickdickling9389]

It was too late the moment it began.

[@0xlamon]

considering the state EU is - this might not be an option period.

[@andrewkuebler4335]

So I never understood why farmers push back on environmentalists bringing up fertilizer run-off killing waterways. Do they not realize that their crops need that now poisoned water? That they are killing the fish, and I assume fishermen don't want their livelihoods destroyed any more than farmers do? That not just the fish suffer, but every creature linked to that ecosystem. Creatures like, you know, HUMANS!! We need drinking water too! I feel like farmers and environmentalist should be natural allies. Much of the corporate greed that is the leading cause of climate change is negatively impacting farmers too. I guess I just assumed that farmers more than anyone would appreciate and want to preserve the natural world? Why do they expect sympathy on changes that make farming more difficult, when they don't show sympathy for the harm they themselves cause? Where does that disconnect come from?

[@AverageBritishNerd1138]

You kind of answered your own questions there regarding corporate greed. In order to be profitable, a farm needs to create a high amount of produce to sell to wholesalers, who then package it for various supermarkets, mark up the price, and sell it to them. The supermarket marks up the price and sells it to you, the end customer. As food is comparatively cheap in supermarkets, you can imagine how much the farmer is getting for the raw produce. In order to make sure they have enough money to live off, as well as perform necessary repairs, renovations, plant new crops (no old-style 4-field crop rotation here - population density is too high) and so on, they have to use fertilisers to keep the fields active and thus ensure enough output to get the necessary money. This is also true of land that's only suitable for animal grazing, as the field's grazing/fodder crop needs to be rich enough in nutrients to provide animals of high enough quality for market. The loss of a season's output can be enough to ruin a family farm and force them to sell up to an industrial farm.

[@stilgar2007]

The government wants the land for big business. Don't ever listen to "policies", the consequences of their actions are intended.

[@nooneshome8746]

Let's promote food printing

[@wagie95]

I’m right wing… voted reform, but this budget was great! The only shitty thing was this really… this was pretty shocking

[@AKK5I]

The idea of it was good but the inheritance tax -free cap is far too low. £1-3 million in farming assets is not as much as you'd imagine it would be worth five/ten years ago.