Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Farmers head to Westminster to protest over inheritance tax row | LBC" video.

Don't you understand the concept of asset rich, but cash poor? I suspect that you would be up in arms were there to be a serious increase in the price of food, despite your contempt for the people who produce much of that food. By the way 'brake?' Perhaps you mean 'break?' 'Make the working poor pay more tax.' Too late. Rachel has already done that.
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@tryingmybest9819 It is, it seems, a last resort after Rachel from Accounts has consistently refused to discuss the issue with anyone who actually understands it.
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@martynblackburn9632 I assume you don't occasionally go on holiday, or perhaps even own a car?
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@martynblackburn9632 'The channcelor does not have to have a background in banking to do the job.' You seriously don't think that the Chancellor (that, by the way, is the correct spelling) should have some practical knowledge of economics? As the late Eric Morecambe would have said 'There's no answer to that!' If you ever need an operation, wouldn't you want the person undertaking it to have some practical knowledge of surgery?
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@stuc3195 You miss the point. Mr. Ferguson seems to equate voting for Brexit with a shameful, greedy, deed. indeed, he even uses this phrase of farmers and fisherman :- 'voted in the highest national percentages to ruin Britain.' I doubt a rational response to him would serve any purpose, as it seems his idea of democracy is simply that it gives the right to agree with his opinion.
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Just like the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel allowance, do you mean?
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richardboland1935 But a questionable one. Farmers are dependent upon what the major supermarket chains are willing to pay for their produce. The alternative, which won't happen anytime soon, is significant increase in food prices, which the chains will not countenance. Nor, I suspect, would Dazzle.
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@tryingmybest9819 Perhaps you don't understand the term 'The Last Resort?' I haven't, by the way, said that I agree with the action, only that I can understand the desperation the farmers feel which has apparently driven them to take it. So stop trying to change the issue with facile questions.
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@tryingmybest9819 Of course it is my opinion. Isn't that what comments are for? I respectfully submit that, if farmers did not share the last resort belief, they would not be acting as they are. Perhaps you might consider that as a possibility?
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@tryingmybest9819 'understanding is irrelevant.' I have never suggested that. Why are continuing to ask increasingly irrelevant questions?
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@martynblackburn9632 You don't actually seem able to answer any rational question. However, exactly how is the Winter Fuel Allowance (introduced by Labour but maintained for fourteen years for Tories) socialism? Moreover, what is you evidence that pensioners dislike socialism?
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@Dazzle229 But what should happen and what does happen are generally different. The farmers are desperately worried about the situation as it is, rather than as it perhaps ought to be.
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@Dazzle229 Perhaps you might explain this to Farmers and their representatives? Your idea of 'problem solved would not, I suggest, accord with their views.
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Of course it does. You clearly have access to the books from the farm and, unlike Rachel from Accounts, can actually understand them.
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@tryingmybest9819 'It's only likely to affect 500 farmers a year according to the treasury?' The last four words effectively answer that bit of your comment. As to the price rise. Ever heard of supply & demand? Should there be less food the price of what there is will, inevitably, rise. Just like Rachel from Accounts, I suspect that you are not an economist.
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@plagiarisedwords You don't seem to understand the difference between 'poor' and 'cash poor.' Perhaps, like Rachel from Accounts, you have no practical understanding of economics, or perhaps you are simply one of the 'My Party, right or wrong' group.
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@tryingmybest9819 The NFU and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) have estimated up to 70,000 farms could be affected. Both are specialists in the economics of farming. Which is, I suspect, rather more than the Treasury or Rachel from Accounts are. When individuals as diverse as Davey, Farage, Clarkson, & Lloyd-Webber are supporting the farmers, cannot you even grasp that something might be amiss?
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@jujutrini8412 There is something of a difference between paying taxes and paying inheritance tax, even if you cannot grasp it. Farmers are self-employed, for the most part, and pay tax at the same rate as any other self-employed does.
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@brianferguson7840 Almost all farmers are self-employed, and pay taxes like any other business. The issue here is inheritance tax. I thought that you had grasped that?
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