@JohnBen5489183 @JamesMelville I don't have her number

@pete_ar_fryn less farmer-proximate than most of the EU, and I'm not sure whether doing what they're doing will have the same effect on public opinion. I also don't think it's being greeted as negatively as Budget supporters are pretending

@CraigDu42342770 @cat_frampton @agricontract @FarmersWeekly Except that didn't happen

@HelenGothel @CockertonMark Yes, me.

@Claret_Badger @Frank_Mortimer @CockertonMark Farmers make up 0.16% of the population. Check your mathematical understanding

@johnlew40540571 @CockertonMark And you think Simon is a sane commentator John?!

@englishfil @CockertonMark The CAAV (who's members value farms for IHT) estimate that some 75% of farmers will be impacted, and that's before land price inflation and threshold stagnation

@gpchatbot @CockertonMark Enjoy your cheap food

@WezTheWezWez @CockertonMark Almost as if the economics of land value and food spend have changed beyond all recognition as the UK and other advanced economies (most of whom, worldwide, operate a form of APR) entered their post-industrial phase.

@Silverbullet130 @CockertonMark How many yellow tractors in the picture? And the engines look to be mainly Euro 5, so the emissions profile of a domestic cat

@lynnedixon14 @CockertonMark They didn't manage, that's why APR was brought in. APR equivalents exist across the EU, and in most advanced economies worldwide

@CockertonMark @kennymcl01 @flynn_gorman @franchiefmate Except non-farming purchasers made up over half the farmland purchases last year, the vast majority corporate entities.

@IgnisAFB @jcplinth @CockertonMark Not there, because it's photoshopped.

@CroftantiquesUK @CockertonMark According to polling, farmers voted for Brexit in no greater proportion than the rest of the public

@SergeCostabanc @CockertonMark You inspected them all personally?

@CockertonMark @lltbr123 @MariaSale8 How many yellow tractors are there in the picture?!

@ChrisHo30314026 @robertagayna @CockertonMark The CAAV (who's members value farms for IHT) estimate it will be a minimum of 75% of farmers impacted, and that's before land price inflation and threshold stagnation

@Tryfan_73 @robertagayna @CockertonMark The largest cohort of non-farming land purchasers by far are legal entities that aren't subject to IHT. The new policy retains the incentive for wealthy individuals to buy farmland, whilst crippling productive multigenerational family farms.

@RoaminNL @robertagayna @CockertonMark Except the Farm Business Surveys of all UK nations, and DEFRA's own data & analysis would suggest that your assertion is bullshit