• FarceOfWill
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    4 days ago

    Pissing off farmers is more likely to gain support in rural communities than lose it.

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      3 days ago

      This.

      I’m so tired of people on social media dismissing me (who has lived in extremely rural parts of Northumberland my entire life) as a clueless citydweller whenever I speak about:

      • This farmland IHT debate

      • Foxhunting

      • Using pesticides that don’t mass-kill bees and other critical insects

      • People having a right to roam/being against landowners illegally blocking off public footpaths

      • The amount of land multimillionaires purposely keep barren and ecologically dead just so they can go grouse-shooting

      There’s this myth pushed predominantly by right wingers that everybody who doesn’t live in a highly urbanised area agrees with farmers on everything.

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        3 days ago

        They like to pretend that all farmers are gentlemen who wander around in tweed jackets and essentially live in the 1930s. Except I don’t think that was true even in the 1930s.