Brutkey

Greg Harvey 🌍
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Ffs, just dropped and cracked my phone screen. 😭 Will have to see if it's repairable, it's only 8 months old.

Greg Harvey 🌍
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Clever this, maybe the same idea will help with electric trucks?

https://www.electrive.com/2025/08/13/an-electric-caravan-lightyear-begins-production-of-the-ae-1-cosmos/

#ev

Greg Harvey 🌍
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Interesting idea. James May gets ChatGPT to script a short and follows the instructions blindly. 😂

https://youtu.be/2IDy2F4cs7E

Greg Harvey 🌍
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social He must have about 100 acres, doing the rough maths on estimated valuation and price per acre. He doesn't seem aware of any thresholds that will save him. At the moment his dad owns the lot, although he lives in the farmhouse, his mum and dad live in one of the cottages and workers live in the other two. So on paper he owns nothing, but will inherit it, at which point he's expecting - perhaps wrongly? - a tax bill around the £500k mark.

Greg Harvey 🌍
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social He's usually pretty informed about this stuff though, he's an active member of the local NFU branch...

Greg Harvey 🌍
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social I'll find out what his acreage is, but a friend of mine I was talking to just last week is farming his dad's old farm. His dad is in his 90s, still around, still on form, but for how much longer? 🤷 It will be valued at around £2m (probably half of which is farmhouse and three cottages) and that will definitely put him out of business, the tax will not be survivable for his operation.

Greg Harvey 🌍
@greg_harvey@tooting.ch

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social He must have about 100 acres, doing the rough maths on estimated valuation and price per acre. He doesn't seem aware of any thresholds that will save him. At the moment his dad owns the lot, although he lives in the farmhouse, his mum and dad live in one of the cottages and workers live in the other two. So on paper he owns nothing, but will inherit it, at which point he's expecting - perhaps wrongly? - a tax bill around the £500k mark.

Greg Harvey 🌍
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social Broadly agree. But...

There is an important issue around CGT at the moment, and that's inheritance tax for farms and farmland. Unfortunately, a number of rich people (see Clarkson) have been buying farms to avoid inheritance tax. The government has closed this loophole by applying inheritance tax to farms, however it's a sledgehammer to nut scenario because in one fell swoop they've pretty much ended family run smallholdings. /1

Greg Harvey 🌍
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social These people (and I know several) barely make a living, certainly rarely make a profit, and when they do they tuck it away for the years when they know they will make a loss. If the government slaps them with a 6-figure tax bill when their parents die it's game over. There is a generation of passionate, young(ish) people working in the agriculture sector who will just have to sell the farm to a Clarkson when they can't pay their CGT.

Greg Harvey 🌍
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Somebody's going to get court martialed. 😬

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/asia/south-china-sea-china-warship-collision-intl-hnk

Greg Harvey 🌍
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Right. Today can die in a fire. I declare it beer o'clock.

Greg Harvey 🌍
@greg_harvey@tooting.ch

If the Italian coast guard were patrolling tonight they'd have a ball. No end of small craft limping home without the proper lights, after dinner on the island, drivers probably drunk. 😬 Fine-tastic!

Greg Harvey 🌍
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Fair.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkz2jv51kmo

Also, repeat after me, there's no fucking cream in carbonara.