Or maybe he’s just a fucking liar.

My, what a lot of conclusions you just drew on zero evidence. Almost impressive.

Clarkson went into farming as a tax dodge.

Farmers usually have a lot of money invested in capital equipment but their lifestyles are anything but lavish.

They often hide it, but the farmers I know are far from poor. Like a lot of us, they’re rich in illiquid assets but not in terms of cashflow. That’s my situation too, though I’m not a farmer, and I don’t whinge about it.

Inheritance tax is a tax on unearned wealth. There’s no reason to distinguish one asset from all others. Those inheriting almost invariably did nothing to earn it; it’s almost always an accident of birth that puts them in line for an inheritance. That, and the whims of some elderly person. A steeply progressive inheritance tax, with no exceptions besides spouses, would be ideal. And if you’re concerned about corporations grabbing all the arable land, regulate them to prevent any firm directly or indirectly owning more than, say, 10 hectares of land. A similar rule should apply to housing.

but clearly most Brits are dead against that.

With the likes of Palantir sniffing about in the lobbies, there’s good reason to be against it.

He hasn’t rescinded it.

I think he’s practical and level headed

He seems to me frightened of the rightwing media and of Reform and twitchily reactive.

You don’t defeat the enemy by becoming them.

Huh? He banned weapons exports to Israel, publicly condemned Israel for war crimes, sanctioned a bunch of members of their parliament, ramped up aid for Palestine, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever steps foot on British soil, resisted joining the US and Israel with their attacks in Iran, and has recognised Palestine.

And still has contracts for the Israeli military to train British troops, and still criminalises the expression of support for Palestinian rights. At best, we’re seeing some mixed messaging here.

They’ve been a centre-left party for half a century now.

Sure, because there’s no difference between Labour under Michael Foot or Corbyn and Labour under Blair or Starmer. /s

the guy did give off the impression that he was genuinely trying to improve things and was giving it his all despite his party being a unruly shitshow

Funny, all I saw was a smug time-server who didn’t give a toss about British people who aren’t rich.

His attacks on trans people are also scummy.

There probably wasn’t time to conduct a poll before Truss fucked off.

X never had a “professional edge.” It’s always been a low-effort plaform for triival increments of content.