This man is not a farmer. He has said in interviews that he only bought a farm so that he wouldn't have to pay tax when shooting.

He's gonna fake a heart attack, slip on a banana peel and then land under a falling piano?

Typical Celto-Germanic

everything in the english-speaking world is vibes based, so being associated with a farm makes you a farmer

The tax is an inheritance tax for any farmer with net assets over £1m. This might sound like a lot to you and me, but the value comes from mostly inflated land values, and doesn't take into account farmer income which is typically not amazing.

So a lot of farmers who are doing even moderately okay will essentially not be able to pass their land on to their children without their kids forking out near £60k

The government thinks it will affect only 500 farms, so I interpret this that it was meant to be a tax on the hyper wealthy farmers, but it seems completely out of whack with the number of middle-class to working-class farmers it will actually affect.

TLDR: Farmers are spectrum of classes, but even the poorest hold assets with measurable value.

What tenant farmers? Most are migrants or kulaks.

I am not sure what you mean became, he always was one, I cannot find an episode where he was not an insufferable bellend

:yea:

Most farmers (who aren't farm hands/workers) in the imperial core are essentially petty bourgeoisie. They have the same class interests as the ruling class.

They think Jezza is cool and the man. My brain melted when I saw he had a an article published in a newspaper in Britain, and it started pouring out of my ears when I realised he was a regular columnist. He had an actual column in an actual newspaper and it wasn't about cars and farts, but politics.

I thought the same at the beginning, but after working for few years in agriculture, he is actually presenting real problems every farmer has, not only British bourgeoisie.

He put more spotlight on farming issues than all non profit organisations together.

Of course they support him. Yeah he is a bit crazy and looks disrespectful on the first look, but give it a chance he is actually highlighting even ecological issues around farming.

but he was on TV! Could there be anything more important?

nope

I don't think so. I gather there are three kinds of farmers in the us

• massive aggrobusinesses

• petit boug who own enough land to turn a profit and have enough revenue to hire significant amounts of labor.

• poor farmers who have capital but are at best servicing their debts and cannot afford to either improve their profitabilty or sell their effectively worthless capital and get out.

I think that pattern holds in much of the west and probably outside the west, with the poor farmers constantly getting fucked by the machinations of empire while the agribusinesses reap most of the benefits and the petit boug landholders cost by on a combination of profits and subsidies.

Every few years, western farmers gather in a lab somewhere to attempt to create the most cringe protest scientifically possible.

Farm(own)ers and farm workers are two different positions. The former will always suck

This protest is petty-bourgeoise farmers being squeezed by the bourgeoisie via inheritance tax. The tax is likely to cause many of them to sell their farms, which will be bought by much bigger farming corporations.

Some of these farmers protests are legit

I've never seen one of these farmers protests for any legit reasons, can you give me an example of one?

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