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The Labour Party’s inheritance tax proposal targeting British farmers is actually a calculated strategy to acquire farmland for immigrant housing developments, according to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

The government’s proposed 20 percent tax on inherited farming assets exceeding £1 million has created anxiety among family-owned farms regarding their ability to preserve their agricultural heritage.

'They are attacking anybody that has land or savings!'

Reform UK, Leader, @Nigel_Farage, slams Labour for their inheritance tax raid on family farms. pic.twitter.com/Nto4TjYGs1

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Due to escalating land values, numerous small farming enterprises, many already struggling financially, might be forced to cease operations instead of passing their agricultural legacy to future generations.

Beyond viewing it as a simple revenue-generating measure by the newly-established left-wing administration, Clacton MP Farage suggests a deeper motive: acquiring rural land to construct housing for Britain’s growing immigrant population.

“I now have no doubt about it, mass immigration means we have to build one new home every two minutes in this country. Where better to get it than farm and farming families who will have to sell up when someone dies if they haven’t gifted it seven years before,” Mr Farage remarked.

“The whole thing is the most disgusting attack. Remember this: our landscape is one of the most beautiful in the world, and the reason is the farming practices we’ve used over centuries. All of that is directly under threat,” he warned.

Reform UK acknowledges that while wealthy individuals may have artificially inflated farmland prices through agricultural tax break exploitation, Labour’s tax initiative would predominantly impact struggling farmers.

The party argues that despite farmland’s multi-million-pound valuation, farmers typically earn modest annual incomes of £30,000 to £50,000 through intense labor, and Labour’s policy would inevitably lead to farm sales and family business fragmentation.

Farage interprets the policy as class warfare, viewing it as retaliation for Margaret Thatcher’s actions against coal mining unions. While past British Union protests were largely left-wing, recent European farming demonstrations have shown right-wing leanings, opposing globalist trade agreements and environmental regulations.

Farage referenced former Blair advisor John McTernan’s recent controversial statement: “I’m personally in favour of doing to farmers who want to go on the streets; we can do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners… there’s an industry we could do without.”

Reform MP Rupert Lowe responded: “The farming sector employs nearly half a million people. Doing anything other than supporting it is wrong. It is an industry we absolutely cannot do without.”

'Our Business Secretary from what I can make out has never even had a job!'

Nigel Farage attacks Labour's lack of business experience and acumen, as the markets jitter in response to Rachel Reeves' Budget combination of higher taxes and higher borrowing. pic.twitter.com/xpRBGvFKrk

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“To say John McTernan’s comments are disgusting would be an understatement. He is advocating for shutting down family farms, leaving hundreds of thousands unemployed, and bringing further poverty to our country. People like this should be nowhere near power.”

Lowe emphasized Reform UK’s dedication to British farming communities, stating: “An attack on farming is an attack on Great Britain. Our farmers are the backbone of this nation, yet Labour’s disregard for their livelihoods is nothing short of disgraceful.”