The well of sympathy was bone dry for the castle-owner whining to the Daily Telegraph about incoming tax changes
If you’ve been struggling to feel sorry for the owners of farms worth upwards of £3 million, wait until you see what the Daily Telegraph has served up as a sob story.
Jason Lindsay‘s Grade I listed castle, complete with a Norman keep built around 1140, comes with 140 acres of land in the Essex countryside and the Grade II listed Georgian mansion where he and his wife live. We know! The destitution is off the scale.
The estate is a wedding venue for around 80 (presumably) happy couples each year, so his particular concern is with a proposed cut in Business Property Relief, but there wasn’t a whole lot of sympathy going around. There was, however, plenty of sarcasm.