mjg002.bsky.social
100pct Europhile Brit. Believe Brexit to be the biggest act of self harm any country has ever committed to itself. Well, until the US re-elected Trump that is!
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And he’s absolutely, 100pct right.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself. Irony meter off the charts!
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It’s literally the only chance they have of delivering the economic growth the country so desperately needs. I hope to God they finally do see sense - though I fear they will continue to keep their heads in the sand like stupid bloody ostriches!
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You’ll be getting a “cease and desist” letter shortly! The age of parody is dead!!
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Thank you for your service to your country and to all of us in the West on whose behalf you are also fighting.
Stay safe and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
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You’d get better advice from that lettuce that outlived her premiership. She’s beyond useless!
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I worked in numerous countries around the world on largely fixed term employment contracts. I was an expat. And I know many, many nationalities who do or have done the same. It’s nothing to do with immigration or citizenship - it’s more about temporary or permanent moves and intention to return.
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Poor chap!
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HMRC has comprehensive tests to establish UK residency for tax purposes. So it cannot be beyond the wit of man to establish similar tests for whether you are a genuine family farmer - or simply a wealthy landowner.
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Spot on.
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And as far as agricultural land, caused in large part by the previous Agricultural Property Relief being used by the very wealthy to avoid IHT.
The irony is that the new IHT rules will still allow a significant reduction in IHT for such people - but clobber genuine family farms at the same time.
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Agreed. And I'm also a farmer's grandson.
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Not only that, but she is a tenant farmer so the whole issue of IHT on arable land owners is irrelevant to her.
(Though I do take my hat off to people who chose to farm for no other reason than to make a living - that is impressive!).
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Lets just hope it lasts!
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Yes please! And welcome.
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Would you expect anything else from Kuenssberg?!
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Let’s hope it continues that way and all the crap stays on the other site!
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I second that!!
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I am also finding these "Starter Packs" extremely useful. Thank you to all who are contributing to and/or producing them. Definitely eased and vastly speeding up my transition from the other place!
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Twitter really is dying. Good. It’s not philosophical or even the user experience for me - I just don’t want Musk anywhere near or to benefit in anyway from me.
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100pct agree.
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Thanks Brendan. You have made my move here so much easier. Thanks!!
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And even then, almost 6 months after the change of government! better late than never I suppose...
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Moreover it's an expensive and difficult process and hence is usually a one way street. FoM made movement easy and was therefore often temporary in nature. Hence net immigration was a third of what it now is post the loss of FoM with Europe.
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Yes, the stupidity of Labour's approach to this knows no bounds. They are a vast improvement over the Tories but will not achieve their objective of meaningful economic growth - or a second term - unless they address the Brexit elephant in the room.
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A great start would simply to have reciprocity on this alone. I get it's not the "norm" for a "third country" - but this would be so much fairer than what we currently have and would be aligned with how the USA treats visitors.
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Very useful - thank you.
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That was super useful! Thank you Andrew. The faster we can rebuild our networks here, the faster we can all largely dump X.