Director of the Scottish Countryside Alliance.
Scotland
Joined July 2012
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Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
In the countryside, driving is a necessity.
Rural residents and businesses cannot always rely on public transport. Rising fuel costs hit household budgets, jobs and local businesses.
This Budget, it’s time for a rural reset. Write to the Prime Minister asking for a rural reset - ruralreset.org
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
A new Chancellor with a chance for a rural reset.
We have written to @JohnHealey_MP with 10 Budget asks, from the family farm tax to VAT on heating oil. @AndyBurnhamGM, good growth in every postcode starts here.
Our 10 asks ➡️ countryside-alliance.org/new…
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
A working pickup is a tool of the trade.
Farmers, gamekeepers, builders and rural contractors depend on double-cab pickups. Reclassifying them as cars rather than commercial vans for tax purposes fails to recognise their role in rural work.
This Budget, it’s time for a rural reset. Write to the Prime Minister asking for a rural reset: ruralreset.org
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
New analysis from the Countryside Alliance shows that rural people pay almost £500 more a year on petrol than people living in towns and cities.
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
Gherkins are great but pubs need help in tomorrow’s Budget too.
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
The family farm tax was a catastrophic mistake. It should be consigned to history in this week’s Budget. Doing so would be the first step in the government repairing its relationship with rural Britain.
#backbritishfarmers #budget2026
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
Today's Express. The government must rule out this ridiculous proposal that would harm rural people.
Reintroducing our Wildlife and Land Management Committee members. First up is our hunting representative, Paul Armstrong-Wilson. With over 45 years of experience in hunting, we look forward to working together over the coming months.
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Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
We must protect rural communities. For the past two years, the rural way of life has been under attack.
The countryside is ready for a reset. This Budget will reveal whether the government is ready too.
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
Scrap the awful family farm tax. Ditch harmful policies impacting the countryside. Rural reset now!
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
Scrapping the Family Farm Tax is just one step we are asking the government to take this Budget. It's time for a rural reset.
ALT Front page of the Daily Express with headlines focused on political and agricultural themes. Main headline reads: "Axe the Family Farm Tax Now, Prime Minister." Includes a photo of Andy Burnham.
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
The family farm tax continues to put too many farmers through unnecessary stress and anxiety. Scrapping it in its entirety would be the right thing to do. It will signal that this government wants to begin repairing the relationship between Westminster and rural people. The countryside is ready for a rural reset. The Budget will tell us whether the government is ready too.
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Reintroducing Jamie Culpan as our Shooting Representative for our Wildlife and Land Management Committee. We look forward to working with Jamie over the coming months.
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Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
The countryside is ready for a rural reset. The Budget will tell us whether the government is ready too. Unlock the countryside’s potential.
🔴Revisit the hated family farm tax
🔴Review SFI
🔴Alleviate pressure on rural businesses
🔴Extend 20% business rate bill cuts to rural restaurants and hotels
🔴Reduce VAT for hospitality sector
🔴No holiday lets tax
🔴Maintain fuel duty
🔴Reduce VAT on domestic heating oil
🔴Reform horseracing betting levy
🔴Reconsider decision to reclassify double cab pickup trucks- the country’s favourite work horse
This week, we reintroduce our Gamekeeping Representative on the Wildlife and Land Management Committee. Garry Dickson has nearly 40 years in gamekeeping, both in the field and laterally as a lecturer at Borders College.
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📣 Celebrating 20 years of the Countryside Alliance Awards! The countryside has changed in many ways, but what has remained constant is the importance of the people at the heart of rural communities.
Nominations now open: research.net/r/CAAWeb27
#RuralOscars
📢 This year, the Countryside Alliance Awards celebrates its 20th anniversary, marking two decades of recognising the people, businesses and communities that make rural Britain such a special place to live, work and visit.
Nominate now ⤵️
#RuralOscars
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Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
Ministers and advisors should spend more time talking to farmers and rural experts.
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
Great discussion with Jeremy Clarkson and Charlie Ireland on stage at #cpc26.
Ministers and those who advise them should prioritise spending more time listening to experts like Charlie.
His knowledge is second to none.
Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance retweeted
This is the right call. It is vital that critical decisions about the future of rural communities are taken by elected Ministers, not bureaucrats. Returning the important functions of these quangos to direct government control could go a long way to ending the accountability gap and cutting red tape for the custodians of our countryside.
