I'm not sure Jeremy Clarkson is the most sympathetic champion for poor farmers, many of whose concerns about the loss of #Brexit subsidies and poor trade deals are legitimate. Here is what he told Top Gear magazine when he bought his farm 👇🏽 and what he claims today 👇🏽. 🧐~AA - ThreadSky

bestforbritain.bsky.social • 101 days ago

I'm not sure Jeremy Clarkson is the most sympathetic champion for poor farmers, many of whose concerns about the loss of #Brexit subsidies and poor trade deals are legitimate.

Here is what he told Top Gear magazine when he bought his farm 👇🏽 and what he claims today 👇🏽. 🧐~AA

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mattsleight.bsky.social•101 days ago

"I did it as a tax dodge" is exactly why the rule has been brought in. To catch tax dodgers like him.

wemdmj.bsky.social•100 days ago

Farming is tough. Poorly paid and hammered by Brexit losses. Cash poor / asset rich. But this campaign is on the wrong side of the IHT argument.

evopolo.bsky.social•101 days ago

JEREMY Clarkson, the Top Gear, presenter has apologised for saying striking public sector workers should be executed in front of their families.

Measure of the man

lazytitan258.bsky.social•100 days ago

His defence of “actually I’m a massive liar and wanted to do something generally held to be distasteful by most people outside of the wealthy, & it just happened to come with a massive tax break” is … ambitious!

pspike.bsky.social•101 days ago

Typical hypocritical wealthy tax avoiding twat. I remember when Andrew Lloyd Webber flew in from America to vote in favour of the bedroom tax for the poorer people. Don't expect any sympathy from me.

charlieofyorkshire.bsky.social•100 days ago

The DWP chase cares for fifty quid overpayment or seventy quid UC; then a million quid land owners want us to cry for them after most of them voted #Brexit
I'm a sympathetic Lefty, not a sucker.
#UKPolitics
#BrexitBenefits

aozora-aonami.bsky.social•101 days ago

Barmy agri-zealots blocking traffic should get 5 years.

johndoe123123.bsky.social•100 days ago

He is the Government's secret weapon .... Let him carry on ..

petesalopian.bsky.social•101 days ago

Ms Derbyshire should have phrased the question "If not from tax dodging bastards then who?" I know, I know, she's far too classy to do that but that's what it takes to drive home to people what this is really all about!

mandynugent.bsky.social•101 days ago

Clarkson is an awful person. He doesn’t give a shit about farmers. He just doesn’t want to pay tax. He also likes the attention he’s getting atm.

robporter.bsky.social•101 days ago

Besides the point but that Mail article is horrifically written. Typos everywhere.

wenisbenis.bsky.social•101 days ago

remember when he said public sector workers should be shot in front of their families for striking back in 2011

bggyoneandonly.bsky.social•101 days ago

I believe that Clarkson and other wealthy landowners think WE should pay for everything while they make land grabs to avoid inheritance tax

nofixedagenda.bsky.social•101 days ago

I highly doubt he uses the nhs…

bggyoneandonly.bsky.social•101 days ago

Infrastructure, defence, law and order, farm subsidies....

He doesn't want to pay taxes he can leave the country 👋

nofixedagenda.bsky.social•101 days ago

He works for the biggest tax dodger of them all! Hopefully he won’t see Christmas if he keep on like this!

inshado.bsky.social•101 days ago

He really is the definitive privileged boor isn't he.

jplanner.bsky.social•101 days ago

Pretty sure Mr Clarkson was all for Vote leave... those nasty EU folk were taking all his profits.... that worked out well for farmers too.... maybe he's Not the Messiah....

jglowe.bsky.social•101 days ago

Hardly "Man of the People" material, is he ? 👽

stephenswan.bsky.social•101 days ago

…should be paying inheritance tax at 40% like many on modest means do. These people just want to hoard land & wealth at the expense of the rest of us. If they cause disruption & delay I hope the police & courts come down hard on them as they did the peaceful M25 protesters 2/

stephenswan.bsky.social•101 days ago

I am afraid that this is the case with the very wealthy or super wealthy (not, of course, all of them). They don’t want to pay tax to fund high quality public services; they just want the ‘little’ & ‘poor’ people to pay tax for declining public services. This is not a tractor tax; they should 1/

billbates01.bsky.social•101 days ago

Taking away the landowners' tax exonerations will make agriculteral land less attractive to tax avoiders and hence cheaper for farmers to buy.
Does this not mean that many tenant farmers will at last have the possibility of owning the land they work?

Is this not a good thing for farmers?

chris-de-burger.bsky.social•101 days ago

Clarkson seems to be going the way of Lozza Fox and that Scot’s bloke, he’s having yet another throw crap at Markle / punch my producer moment. Chances are the Tory’s will want him to lead them into the next GE 😂

seamorphus.bsky.social•101 days ago

You raise an important point! It's crucial to consider who is advocating for farmers and whether they're genuine in their support. Thanks for highlighting the differences in Jeremy Clarkson's statements. Farmers deserve consistent and sincere champions for their cause!

paullofty.bsky.social•101 days ago

Can’t seem to remember them making a fuss about Brexit or the deals like the Australia one that affected them 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

chris-de-burger.bsky.social•101 days ago

They voted for it - wait till the public find out who pays there subsidies now the EU doesn’t

malemet.bsky.social•101 days ago

I thought farmers generally voted for Brexit?

aozora-aonami.bsky.social•101 days ago

Depends on the geographical area but yes a lot of them did and the costs of Brexit to them and the rest of us were dismissed as irrelevant

malemet.bsky.social•101 days ago

I wasn't sure tbh but I read an article saying farmers in the South West of the country did which seemed odd because again, I thought they benefitted from being in the EU.

charnwoodmoto.bsky.social•101 days ago

He’s an entitled, witless, ar@ehole whose welcome ran out many years ago.

Ignore.

frankmani.bsky.social•101 days ago

They shouldn't have voted for #brexit then, ahi?

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