But there NEVER WAS A FARMER INHERITANCE TAX EXEMPTION. It was the LANDOWNER not the FARMER. (View Post)

I inherited a farm,. well, a small field, about 15 years back (ultimately from an ancestor, as it happens). It was tiny but still had to be valued by a specialist from a major Lothian surveying firm.… (View Post)

It ill behoves the Tories to whine about farmers (as opposed to landowners, which is what IHT actually applies to) given how little they've done to promote fiid security and stop the supermarket… (View Post)

It's more a general incredulity that we seem to be inhabiting the same infoverse as Topping. Unless he is insisting that the train includes a horse box for his convenience, or rather his mount&#… (View Post)

Gombeen man = shady businessman wanting to be bribed by Heath, who has a whacking headache after drinking the koolaid poitin of talks with the Nationalists (and by implication the IRA), at Sunningdal… (View Post)