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Just the usual self-interest.

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Yeah, the £1m limit would have caught a lot but since they backtracked that up to £2.5m and made that a transferable allowance most farms will be completely exempt. Older farmers just didn't have to ever worry about it when it was an exempt asset.

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Up until last year IHT wasn't charged on agricultural assets at all, that's why people like Clarkson and Dyson bought up farmland, which was exempt. In Dyson's case it would potentially save him over a billion in IHT compared to non-exempt assets.

Need chocolate, loads of typos, but the figures are right. Hopefully clear enough.

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The farmers have enjoyed over £5m extra allowances and still paid less tax than your estate. Carla still thinks that's unfair to the farmers. What do you think?

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So if your estate is £1.2m when the last of you or your spouse dies, IHT would be £80k, leaving £1,120,000. If the last of a farmer or their spouse dies, and the farm total estate is £6.2m, £5.2m of which is the farm, only £40k IHT is payable, leaving £6,160,000.

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Well on top of that £500k each they get an additional, wait for it £2.5m allowance each for agricultural assets, and that's also transferable between spouses, so would cover a farm tax free up to £5m. Above that tax is charged at ½ the rate you or I would pay, 20% instead of 40%.

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A married ouple gets twice that, so £1 million in total, as the allowances are transferable. Above that 40% tax is charged on the excess. Pretty generous. So how is it different for farmers?

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Inheritince Tax is a tax charged after death on someone's estate. Hardly anyone pays it (only about 4%of estates are liable to it) as almost all estates are well below the tax free allowances. Non farmer individuals get £325k allowance + an extra £175k on their main residence, so £500k.

alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 12h

Lockhart is at her work again. She implying farmers get a bad deal on inheritance tax but what she's actually doing is complaining already the already generous special treatment they enjoy isn't generous enough. Let me explain why she couldn't be more wrong.

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The "patriots" are revealing themselves today.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 12h

The fascist playbook is rolled out.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 13h

Audi can get in the sea.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 14h

And Portadown District have published the press statement he obviously wrote with the same typo.

alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 14h

Can you imagine how much coke he's going to blast through over the next few weeks?

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 14h

It's not legal to hang them from street furniture anyway. I know a lot of people are suddenly defenders of law and order when the rest of the time they treat it as optional.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 15h

Ulster Day was a month ago. Flags and banners are seldom removed, instead allowed to rot every year. It's clear those putting them up have no respect for the flags, they're put up simply to territory-mark and intimidate.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 15h

As we all know, that wee lad would be the first person in the queue looking to blame the police and an infinitely long list of everyone else if the march had happened and terrorists shot someone.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 15h

I don't know how anyone can read something like this and still come to the concussion that it's a good idea to send a parade down the road. That's not a vindication of terrorists, it's proof that the police decision not to facilitate the march in the interests of public safety was correct.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 16h

And the DUP and SF simply can't work together. The present structure of Stormont allows their respective SpAds carve up what they can between them behind the scenes. The bits they can't agree on they have an effective veto to block. Hence NI sees must less legislation passed than other Assemblies.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 16h

Precisely. The PC got caught slacking in their deliberation this year on Drumcree, which left an open goal for the legal challenge. The PC then caved when they should have resigned, gifting us all the consequences.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/10/2026

I'm not a Unionist but there's no way Diane Forsythe knows what the majority of Unionists think on anything, or speaks for them. There's a likelihood the majority would rather not have an SF First Minister but that's not the same as whether they think she should resign as FM over Garvaghy Rd.

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The Official Protestant Coalition's punishment for consistently and relentlessly inciting/amplifying racist hate and assisting in coordinating disorder during the annual progroms in NI has finally been dished out by Meta: A single month's suspension. Posting away unbothered.

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Gaston wants the 2016 referendum to be "for eternity" yet the 1975 referendum (which confirmed staying in the EU) was never accepted by the anti-EU crew. Like his belligerent bullying boss a hypocrite from head to toe.

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Talkback - 27/10/2026 - BBC Sounds

Timothy Gaston says that the 2016 EU referendum result should stand for eternity...@ 15 mins in. Yeah, that's not the way it works.

bbc.co.uk

William Crawley debates challenging issues and talks to the people making the headlines.

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Talkback - 27/10/2026 - BBC Sounds

About 23:30 minutes in... Don't build your hopes up for logical conclusions to questions asked (which are apparently just the BBC promoting a pro EU agenda).

bbc.co.uk

William Crawley debates challenging issues and talks to the people making the headlines.

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On being told the UK joining the EU Single Market would eliminate the Irish Sea border he said that he was against that. You can never please them, they'd rather have the problem to gripe about than the problem solved.

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Timothy Gaston is on TalkBack discussing the subject of Brexit. Timothy Gaston is a TUV councillor who was co-opted (not elected) into Jim Allister's old MLA seat. He said the referendum result in 2016 should be permanent.

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A new article on this in the Bel Tel today claiming the attack was in the DUP offices at Westminster on Donaldson's birthday.

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David Graham has an idiotic article in the Bel Tel this morning. He suggests Big Gav should step down in East Belfast so that he can enter the Assembly as an MLA instead, with Emma Little-Pengelly running for his Westminster seat. All this would be to somehow help retain Carla Lockhart.

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Exactly. And yet I've heard him in numerous interviews and no one has ever challenged his logic.

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It's been his go to argument for a couple of years. And he thinks people in NI are driving to hotels in RoI instead (presumably on free fuel) because he says the higher VAT rate here makes hotel stays more expensive. And yet all the Galgorm Group hotels are always busy. Something doesn't add up.

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It's also been estimated that this would lead to £300m less VAT being collected and HMRC therefore knocking £300m a year off NI's block grant. Which services are you going to cut so everyone who can afford it gets the equivalent of £5 off a £100 meal?

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I also think she's daring the party to throw her out, which I don't think they'll do. But not doing so appears weak, so it's jeopardy either way for the party. Being thrown out also makes a move to TUV easier, the narrative would be that the DUP pushed her rather than her being disloyal.

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Hospitality Ulster are on the radio about reducing VAT on hospitality businesses (excl alcohol) to 10% spouting the usual lie that NI hospitality businesses are losing business to RoI where the VAT rate is lower. There are several flaws in this argument, including actual data.

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This seems to be a clear challenge to the party leadership, and therein an implied threat. I'm predicting she'll leave the DUP if the party don't withdraw the Deputy First Minister.

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The statement seems to have changed the issue she's taking a stand on from the Orange march to the illegality of reps protesting but surely that's a matter for the police and the courts. Conclusion: she's no longer following party policy on the Drumcree issue and is aligned with the TUV.

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A statement from Carla Lockhart, clearly at odds with the party leadership, and demanding that those with the power to act do so (i.e. Big Gav).

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