Victoria Derbyshire gerät mit Jeremy Clarkson aneinander, während Bauern gegen das Budget protestieren
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/victoria-derbyshire-clashes-with-jeremy-clarkson-as-farmers-protest-over-budget_uk_673c87b8e4b00a7e77459b84
Von Half_A_
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She doesn’t use that tax scheme then but I think Kay Burley may do, although she’s always favourable to anyone suggesting tax cuts
Had him absolutely squirming there and he had to start deflecting and insulting.
He’s openly spoken about using it to avoid inheritance tax, now he’s trying to play the concerned farmer role.
It’s a tax avoidance loophole that’s just been closed and the super rich are pissed off
“Former Top Gear host and ‘Diddly Squat’ TV farmer Jeremy Clarkson is leading the charge on the front page of The Sun today, after pledging to join the farmer protests in the capital.
The Government couldn’t have handpicked a better opponent themselves. In a 2021 interview with The Times, the Conservative-voting controversialist said avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in his decision to buy his (then) £4m+ farm, so no surprise he’s a bit sore now.”
[https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/jeremy-clarkson-james-dyson-and-junk-stats-is-this-the-best-the-anti-inheritance-tax-farming-lobby-has-to-offer/](https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/jeremy-clarkson-james-dyson-and-junk-stats-is-this-the-best-the-anti-inheritance-tax-farming-lobby-has-to-offer/)
[https://taxjustice.uk/blog/super-rich-attacking-plans-close-agricultural-tax-breaks/](https://taxjustice.uk/blog/super-rich-attacking-plans-close-agricultural-tax-breaks/)
[https://www.ft.com/content/e013bfdf-848a-4891-8d4f-1e4aff04985a](https://www.ft.com/content/e013bfdf-848a-4891-8d4f-1e4aff04985a)
Clarkson is a coward and a bully, and he always has been. He is too spineless to own his own words and has to try to deflect being questioned back to the crowd, with a little “typical BBC” dogwhistle thrown in.
Sounds like he is trying to protect his investment and raise his profile.
It’s funny how he says he can pass it on to his kids if he lives for 7 years but also mentions a heart attack, probably not the most reliable option.
He handled that absolutely terribly, and he knew it
He is a complete dickhead. I don’t think he realises how much he, personally, is undermining the already weak case that the farmers have. I never really liked him much because on Top Gear he always came across as generally self-important, smug and boorish. Then there was the assault on a member of the TV crew and the disgusting comment about Meghan Markle. He is just a deeply unpleasant person whose mask has started to slip. He is a multimillionaire complaining about his family having to pay HALF the normal rate of inheritance tax on the farm that he bought for tax avoidance! His presence really isn’t doing farmers any good.
Shame this has become such an us vs them situation and as we saw with the WFA one of Keirs key strategies is zero flexibility.
Hope I am wrong but from the things I have seen it seems there are some issues with this tax situation. Not like farming was in a positive state in the first place.
The cynic in me says Keirs eagerness to rebuild relations with China and to restart relations and trade deals with India, the EU and the US is to offset any loss the food production this will cause.
Oh shit..
Millionaire gets poor working class people together to help him avoid tax.
Personally I’d like to see this guy with Diddly Squat left. Just another grifter.
Lol, this is just hilarious. In the past, he straight up admitted he bought the farm to avoid inheritance tax, people like him are why the rules are being changed
Cunts like him are exactly the reason this law will come into place.
For all the people who constantly complain about rich people not paying tax and wonder why the government doesn’t just close the loopholes, this is why. Look at how easily a lot of the British public is manipulated when the wealthy don’t want something to happen.
I enjoyed Clarkson’s Farm, and feel like it did shine a bit of a light on things in the UK a lot of people were totally oblivious to. That said, Clarkson is precisely the sort of person these rules were introduced to tackle. The idea that he is somehow speaking up for them while in reality it’s him and others like Dyson who triggered this change in the law in the first place is fairly ironic.
I think for the genuine farmers and not the tax-dodging Clarksons, Dysons and Dacres of this world, this is a terrible policy and I side with the farmers. These are people providing the food we eat, thanks to the supermarkets they don’t make much money, the government should be supporting them not taxing them to point generational businesses are threatened. We are an insular little island nation that has recently demonstrated through Brexit that we don’t play well with others. If that is the case then we need to be 100% food and energy self-dependent, invest more in our military and maintain the nuclear deterrent. Sad but true.
I can only wish that he is right and 96% of farmers in the UK have estates large enough to require paying this tax.
Oh look Clarkson being a cunt, didn’t think this was news, we’d be reporting it every day.
“Go to any of these offices and if you don’t understand what someone is doing, fire them” that is an amazing strategy Jeremy,
Farmers really undermine their own position by letting him attend, he’s just a representation of the loophole abuse.
Thing is people like him enough that they’ll believe the waffle he just spat out after getting ruffled.
I will never forgive the NFU and farmers for voting for Brexit.
A lot of people on here commenting without watching, or rather listening to, the whole exchange. The point he’s making is that he will still avoid inheritance tax (by using a trust) and that it’s smallholders who’ll suffer (because they can’t afford to pay a lawyer several hundred pounds an hour to set one up and maintain it).
Do people here honestly not understand that people frequently advocate on behalf of the interests of others with whom they sympathise or emphasise? I’m guessing the fact that the average Redditor’s roots in the area they live are usually pretty weak, as well as largely being introverted, makes them disconnected from their wider community and its interests (I count myself as both, before people take on offence)
“where have you got that figure from?”
Out his arse.
I have some sympathy for the farmers… Imagine Clarkson being the spokesman.
I could be in an echo chamber but it seems that the farmers and media got the public support element quite wrong on this one.
As more and more info has come out, it really seems to have shifted public opinion.
He immediately resorts to ad hominem attacks (“Ohh, typical BBC question” etc).
“If you don’t understand their job fire them” lmao as if he understands what anyone does in a real job
Clarkson is the joke that used to be funny but now is just a bit sad.
He literally said that buying a farm was a tax avoidance scheme and his own words are coming back to bite him.
People want loopholes used by rich closed.
Government close a loophole.
People complain the loopholes they don’t benefit from have been closed.
“CLASHED” more like she asked decent truthful questions like a reporter should and then he had nothing to say but laugh and deflect the fact that he bought a farm to skip on tax, which is a fact, then said it wont effect him because he will just do something else to avoid paying it for his daughter and other farmers won’t/can’t.
These people REFUSE to play their share and I’m glad the current government is actually doing something even though its only 20% and not the 40% we all got to pay normally.
I don’t think he handled the interview particularly well, but I do think he’s right on several fronts.
Firstly everyone is saying that this is targeting rich people buying up farmland to avoid tax, but he’s right that those same people will just avoid it a different way, with a trust or god know what.
And secondly I think a lot of people are vastly underestimating how many farmers it will affect. Possibly some of them are technically able to avoid all of it but won’t know the particular combination of gifting and whatever to do it and as such will get lumped with a huge bill. And it won’t be the mega rich farmers either they will know how to avoid it, it’ll be the middle of the road farmers.
>“But people like me will simply put it in a trust, and so long as I live for seven years, that’s fine. And as my daughter said, you will live for seven years. You might be in a deep freeze at the end of it, but you will live for seven years.
So his daughter is so greedy that she would have her father suffer so she could get a few extra million from the tens of millions he will already leave her. What an odious family.
When the person opposite you has to plead with the audience to help win an argument, you’ve completely killed him.
Also, the irony of Clarkson a privately educated wanker complaining about Reeves being in debate class, isn’t lost on me. He was pals with David Cameron.
The last people who would vote for Brexit were the farmers. They were getting grants, easy markets cheap labour, and didn’t have to put up with finding school places etc. look to market towns, small towns and inner cities for true Brexit believers who had to deal all the problems and non of the benefits!!!
What people are failing to understand is that *actual* farmers are affected. Yes, there are people who will use farms to “hide” money from the government (hi, Dyson), but regular farmers are going to get shafted when the time comes to pay inheritance tax, because unlike the millionaires abusing the system, they don’t have the cash just stashed under a mattress somewhere. It’s all tied up in assets on the farm: livestock, equipment, the land, etc, all of which needs to be passed down to the next generation to keep on farming to keep food on ***YOUR*** table. When the government comes to take it’s cut, that ability greatly diminishes, and in some cases, may spell the end of a lot of farms.
See his squirm and change the subject. Clarkson called out as the bullshit artist he is. Or, to put it another way:
“The way I see it, Jeremy Clarkson is either an idiot or a genius: he’s either an idiot, who actually beileves all the badly researchjed, lying, offensive shit he says, or he’s a genius who has worked out the most accurate way to annoy me.” – Stewart Lee
A farmer on the Radio just said they’d need to pay 200-300k in inheritance tax. They could pay it off over 10 years… so they would be paying 200% of their yearly income for 10 years. Are they saying they make about £10k-20k a year?
Maybe they should change careers.
They also claimed Farmers where committing suicide over this decision.
This feels like a bad dream, we constantly go through these problems and hear everyone’s insane opinion.
“typical the BBC”
you spent nearly 3 decades working there, were the face of BBC2 and made the majority of your wealth there. You are the BBC.
A shame no one during that period walked into the top gear office, tried to figure out what his job was and fired him sooner.