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The Norton Cat said:
It's no surprise that they're unpopular in my opinion. You have to assume that their intentions are good but it all seems ill thought out and their policies have potentially damaging side-effects. It appears that their taxation changes could affect some small heritage assets. These are often run by people who have inherited them and run them as a labour of love when they're really financial albatrosses round their necks. They tend to be the kind of things that are run as small visitor attractions and sometimes wedding venues but only really make enough money to ensure the survival of the asset itself, in a form as close to original as possible. No one is making big money off them. They are also the kind of thing that, if they are sold, end up in the hands of developers who turn them into hotels or luxury apartments, removing their historical significance and preventing the general public from seeing them. They become the preserve of the wealthy, which you'd think a left-wing government would want to avoid.
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That’s interesting.

Are you talking about sites like St. Paul’s Monastery in Jarrow where the Venerable Bede lived? Would that fall under this category?

It seems like the chancellor is becoming a big problem for Labour with her murky past and lies becoming front and centre, at the moment.

It all seems a bit of a mess and ill thought out with a blanket approach that is badly affecting the wrong people. I still don’t understand why farmers with a history going back more than a couple decades of farming on their land can’t be exempt from these new changes. They want to go after tax avoiders, fair enough, but they’ve not done that specifically here.
 
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It looks like the Euro is tanking and almost 1/1 with the US dollar. The dollar will be worth more once Trump takes office in January.

Anyone travelling to Europe next year should hold off another couple month before exchanging their money. I imagine you’ll get a very good deal then.
 
Saf said:
That’s interesting.

Are you talking about sites like St. Paul’s Monastery in Jarrow where the Venerable Bede lived? Would that fall under this category?

It seems like the chancellor is becoming a big problem for Labour with her murky past and lies becoming front and centre, at the moment.

It all seems a bit of a mess and ill thought out with a blanket approach that is badly affecting the wrong people. I still don’t understand why farmers with a history going back more than a couple decades of farming on their land can’t be exempt from these new changes. They want to go after tax avoiders, fair enough, but they’ve not done that specifically here.
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No, St Paul's Monastery comes under English Heritage, I think. I won't give specific examples on a public forum but I can think of a few that fall into the category. They're in private ownership but not necessarily owned by wealthy individuals and people try to keep them running because they love the building or feel a duty to keep hold of it. Obviously, every building/heritage site is different and circumstances will vary slightly at each one.

I agree with your last para. I think they could easily change all this slightly to target the people they want to target and keep in place the protections for the people that they are there to protect.
 
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The Norton Cat said:
No, St Paul's Monastery comes under English Heritage, I think. I won't give specific examples on a public forum but I can think of a few that fall into the category. They're in private ownership but not necessarily owned by wealthy individuals and people try to keep them running because they love the building or feel a duty to keep hold of it. Obviously, every building/heritage site is different and circumstances will vary slightly at each one.

I agree with your last para. I think they could easily change all this slightly to target the people they want to target and keep in place the protections for the people that they are there to protect.
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Thanks for that.

I seen someone on here replying that the local small farmers should just ‘liquidate some assets like the rest of us’ and a fair few posters seemed to like his comment and I could see which way it was going so I left it at that. What are they supposed to liquidate? Land, machinery, cattle? Everything you need to actually farm…
 
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Saf said:
Thanks for that.

I seen someone on here replying that the local small farmers should just ‘liquidate some assets like the rest of us’ and a fair few posters seemed to like his comment and I could see which way it was going so I left it at that. What are they supposed to liquidate? Land, machinery, cattle? Everything you need to actually farm…
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Yeah, that doesn't really seem to be a solution to me.
 
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