Farmer, contractor, glass half full, bit chilled! Easingwold camel racing champion.
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I am sure you will have heard farmer's concerns about the harm your Government is doing to the industry with it's taxes and rhetoric. I hope you will discuss them with @RachelReevesMP and the treasury. Farmers grow food for the country's security making little profit, if any.
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David Blacker retweeted
12 Aug 2025
FAMILY FARM TAX: "The farmers' death tax is shabby, will stoke food price inflation and could seriously undermine this country's ability to feed itself"
"Labour's policies are ill-conceived and rushed, with a strong whiff of class prejudice, aimed at thousands of farming families perceived as wealthy but in reality seriously cash-strapped" @LiamHalligan
Inheritance Tax changes will:
❌ Destroy family farms
❌ Hammer rural communities
❌ Risk national food security
With our farmers #together
@FarmersToAction
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David Blacker retweeted
5 Aug 2025
We have an amazing Hospitality industry in the UK. If you want growth @Keir_Starmer then put us on a level playing field and see what we can achieve then!
5 Aug 2025
It works #CutTourismVat #TaxedOut
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31 Jul 2025
Maybe brush up on maths over the summer break @RachelReevesMP
I’d start here. Think we’re way off laffer curves.
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David Blacker retweeted
22 Jul 2025
The Treasury’s family farm tax legislation, which is accompanied by an impact assessment, suggests there will be “no significant macroeconomic impacts” at all.
But a report says the reforms will cause over 200,000 job losses and cost nearly £2bn by 2030.
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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15 Jul 2025
Great it’s properly raining, that’ll make the wheat grow. 🙄
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David Blacker retweeted
30 Jun 2025
The economy could lose £14.9bn if the government follows through with #inheritancetax proposals, and more than 200,000 jobs could be lost according to CLA-backed survey from @FamilyBizUK & @CBItweets.
But how will your region be affected?
Find out here: cla.org.uk/news/the-true-cos…
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Yorkshire to have £1bn wiped from economy due to inheritance tax changes, report says yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-…
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David Blacker retweeted
4 Jun 2025
Instead of raising £1.8 billion, the tax raid on farmers and family businesses is expected to cost the Treasury £2 billion!
Don’t they consult with business experts or independent economists before they introduce all these new taxes?
Sorry, stupid question.
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David Blacker retweeted
6 Jan 2025
🚜 Newly published research has found that flexible tyres & a rotary harrow can reduce soil compaction & surface runoff. Read more below ⬇️
Dedicated to our dear colleague Dr. Martyn Silgram, co-author & driving force behind this work who passed before he could see it published.
19 Dec 2024
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄 #OpenAccess
Mitigation measures designed to reduce #soil compaction decrease surface runoff, soil erosion & phosphorus losses...
Quinton et al.🇬🇧
@John_Quinton @Enviroken @LancsUniLEC @Geog_UoD @JamesHuttonInst @ADASGroup
doi.org/10.1111/sum.13158
ALT Experimental treatments: VF tyre (left), rotary harrow (middle) and surface profiling roller (right).
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2 Jan 2025
Well that’s dry January buggered. Managed one day more than last year.!!
#hadaglassyesterday #bollockstoit
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David Blacker retweeted
25 Nov 2024
"Rachel Reeves is literally KILLING wildlife!" - I think Reeves, Starmer, and Ed Miliband in particular need to take a good listen to this man at the farmers' protest 👇
@DobbsandPolicy
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David Blacker retweeted
12 Nov 2024
And this: the soil carbon lost from 12,000 years of agriculture only adds up to about 13 years of recent fossil fuel use in terms of emissions.
plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.go…
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9 Nov 2024
You’re so stupid you’d try and drown a fish. Have you got a crystal ball that projects 30 years.
9 Nov 2024
It's sensible financial planning, if you know there's a cost coming in 30 years time, to start saving to pay it now. Similar idea to a mortgage. So £340,000 over £30 years is £11,300/year (without taking into account inflation, which will reduce this cost much further.) 4/7
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David Blacker retweeted
7 Nov 2024
❌ As further details emerge it seems that Labour’s Family Farm Tax is being designed to hit even harder.
🥀 There is still time for Labour to u-turn on it, and they must, unless they want to leave not only broken promises but a broken farming industry.
7 Nov 2024
🔴 NEW: Rachel Reeves has dealt another blow to farmers by preventing them from sharing their £1m tax relief with spouses or civil partners
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7 Sep 2024
As straight as a bull pissing down a dusty track. Shower of rain so harvest dragging into another week. #2024
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31 Aug 2024
Nowt i’d rather be doing on Saturday night. Just love peeling flat spring barley off the floor. 🙄 #sacktheagronomist #throughhimtothelions at least the sun was shining
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