By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 01:43:55 | Updated at 2024-11-23 19:35:18
6 days ago
Sir Keir Starmer defends Budget as furious farmers protest outside Welsh Labour conference
The Standard ^ | November 16, 2024 | Helen Corbett
Posted on 11/16/2024 5:28:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Sir Keir Starmer told the Welsh Labour conference he would defend Labour’s Budget “all day long” as farmers protested against inheritance tax changes outside the venue.
Hailing a “new era” of Labour Wales and Labour Britain “pulling in the same direction”, the Prime Minister said the Welsh branch had “carried the torch” for the party during 14 years of Conservative rule in Westminster.
In his first address as Prime Minister to the conference, Sir Keir praised the election of 27 MPs in July, making Wales a “Tory-free zone” .
As he spoke, farmers unhappy with the changes to inheritance tax unveiled in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget gathered with tractors outside the conference venue in protest
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To: MinorityRepublican
Plank #3 of the Communist Manifesto: “Abolition of all rights of inheritance.”
We haven’t gone all the way on that one, but heavy estate taxes are a step in that direction. Estate taxes are purely punitive because they are taxes levied on assets on which multiple taxes have already been paid many times.
https://mises.org/mises-daily/marxism-lives
2 posted on 11/16/2024 5:33:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: MinorityRepublican
5 years to go. Hope two tier doesn’t totally destroy they country in the meantime.
To: sinsofsolarempirefan
5 years to go. Hope two tier doesn’t totally destroy they country in the meantime.
It's going to be a long 5 years for our cousins on the other side of the pond.
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