The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry
This is powerful stuff. Worth every minute of the time it takes to read and reflect on what it’s telling us.
As RSPB reserves - models of rewilding ideology, lavishly rewarded by Public and philanthropic funding - are consumed by wildfire in Scotland, failing neighbours and wildlife alike:
“ … [the RSPB] has forfeited any right to lecture anyone about how to look after the British uplands.”
Tired of this! Blatant, persistent, often times dangerous undertaking on the motorway.
Can someone tell me exactly what the law is on this? Why so prevalent now?
And before claims of outside lane hogging, very often that’s not the case.
When is the countryside marching again?
A last chance to save what it is.
#CountrysideMarch
MikeSmith_SDP retweeted
I do seriously wonder just how far the goading of the countryside can go. Something has to give, surely? One thing we do lack from a rural perspective is plain speaking leadership. Well, on that: now’s the time!
Now something tears deeper and wider than ever before. A British Government declaring war on its farmers.
The desperate but decent countryside deprived of any voice.
This will not end well.
“Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing … when I see the right and the ability to do everything granted to any power whatever … I say - It is the seed of tyranny.”
Alexis de Tocqueville.
@NoFarmsNoFoods
@TrooperSnooks
@alanvibe
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@SDPhq
@Danjsalt
Removing our right to trial by jury and the right of farmers to protest. This Labour government is wafting out totalitarian dictatorship vibes. They'll cancel elections next, and the King's speech. express.co.uk/news/politics/…
Cancellation is yet the most effective tool in the woke arsenal. The collateral damage it causes to opponents is hyper-charged in its effects due to the simple fact that cowardly management obsessed by process end up impaling themselves on the alter of perceived righteousness - @TalkTV you are perilously close to that precipice.
@Iromg is the best around. Standing firm against the spin and dishonesty that have become the hallmark of our local and national politics. A true and remarkable journalist. A presenter of incredible worth.
MSM has failed monumentally in holding Authority to account. Journalism has diminished itself fundamentally in its near wholesale capture, its institutional sell-out, to an obsequious indulgence of progressive Left-leaning values without any hint of scrutiny or question; rot deepens in Public life because few have the courage to look for answers.
Since the political carnage of Brexit, the stifling damage of Coronavirus lock-down, the tyrannical tendencies of this current Government, few on the airways have worked so tirelessly in demanding answers from those in control of our lives. Precious few journalists have stuck to the legitimate and necessary task of scrutiny and the dogged interrogation of those in elected Office - Mike Graham is one of a precious few - and for many of us functions as the very best of them.
The ideology of the power-obsessed ‘Blob’ dictates that those who can fight against it are humiliated and destroyed; careers ruined, reputations sullied. That such destruction is paraded widely as warning to others who might try to fight back. It takes a rare form of personal and professional courage to meet such a force head on.
In @Iromg we have seen that courage again and again. The worth of the man is beyond question. He needs to return, stronger than ever and with the full support of all of us. Not least his colleagues, not least his station.
If somehow or another Mike Graham is beaten by this nonsense, then the cost is very clear - one way or another a majority of good and hardworking people in the UK lose out because they lose an important voice that stands up squarely for them and in their interest.
Get @Iromg back behind a microphone where he belongs. Doing what he does best - asking questions of those in power and demanding answers from them.
Right with you, Sandy, we’re not going anywhere! 💪🔥
Mike is the life and soul of Talk and we certainly won’t stop until he’s back where he belongs! ♥️😎👑🙌 #BringBackMike
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Replying to @Danjsalt
On a 50% turnout - a record for bye-Election to the Welsh Senedd; local voters were well motivated. I agree with what you say on the result, Dan. But a wider perspective more generally: Elections moving toward active coalitions of Left versus anyone from the Right. It is this that will be a defining feature of the next Election. Arguably, too, the progressive Left are better at organising tactical shifts in voting at local level. The Reform Party will take much from the Caerphilly ‘experience’ yesterday, not least that the Left will unite against it as a defined strategy. Its reaction should be to actively form dynamic coalitions of its own. But will egos and hubris get in the way? The salami-slicing of the Right is yet, to my mind, the most likely pit-fall for any chance of reforming salvation for Britain. A message to Reform, then: make your political friends now. Otherwise, I do think, you’re scuppered.
To borrow for a moment the reflective sentiment of Niemőller:
First they came for the farms, and I did not speak out — because I wasn’t a farmer.
Then they came for the producers of food, and I did not speak out — because I didn’t produce food.
Then they came for the land, and I did not speak out — because I owned no land.
In the end they came for the whole of the Countryside — and there was no-one left to save it.
This Government has a clear agenda for farming, indeed for rural Britain generally. They’re a bad lot. They work to a plan of ruinous destruction and won’t be dissuaded by anyone.
There has to be political traction to resist this. That has to be led by farmers themselves: No one else will stand up to save you.
Farmer and conservationist @GrahamDenny9 a true wildlife champion in every sense. A future government looking to restore conservation value on farmland would do well to include Mr Denny on a specialist advisory board in order to guide things to best advantage. And might I suggest all meetings taking place in the only boardroom that matters — his farm!
Great article by @Mike__Abram on @GrahamDenny9 in @FarmersWeekly on his decision to exit stewardship after decades of building habitats on his farm. How many others like us have lost confidence in @DefraGovUK to manage these schemes?
fwi.co.uk/arable/suffolk-far…
Politics is a game of spite. The countryside has traditionally, and predictably, voted Conservative. That simple fact is why the last government got sloppy in their complacency about rural votes. It is why this current government is going all out to smash rural constituencies. You were all warned leading up to GE2024 and yet many of you - far too many - stayed abed anyway.
'Colour me shocked' said no one. An unsurprising poll run in @FarmersWeekly
And this is why if you are to promote real, substantive, proven and progressive conservation management you begin right here: whatever the habitat, whatever the species, if it involves land, get yourself a good farmer.
Well said, @sussexfarming
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@SDPhq
It all steps up a gear now. Immense policy talent. This move is vital to the future of the UK, our people, their communities. Significant and welcome.
We are delighted to welcome @WilliamClouston, SDP leader, to our advisory board.
Restore is building a cross-party team to deliver change now, not just in 2029.
William brings great experience and an ability to get things done.
We look forward to working with him and @SDPhq.
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Appreciate the retweets to see if we can motivate our government into the real world of wildlife loss ! @Jes_Squirrell @Farmer_Tom_UK @No1FarmerJake @1GarethWynJones @herdyshepherd1 @vickihird @Wyefarm @ClarksonsFarm1 @BC_Suffolk @agricontract @ProagriLtd @CA_TimB @TrooperSnooks
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A most telling illustration from Welsh farmer and farming commentator
@1GarethWynJones
It is essentially very straightforward, though no less devastating for family farms across the UK. You see, the Government is actively targeting land: the countryside is being asset stripped pure and simple.
It’s an agreement, a carefully orchestrated plan along with hedge fund capital. The Government introduces policies that destabilise farming and then asset managers move in to buy. Large blocks of land are then put under contract to wind farms, solar parks and carbon off-setting; highly lucrative, subsidised profits under-written by Government. Similarly house building — a Klondike-like greenfield development bonanza at which developers are guaranteed the most fabulous win.
With the likes of Blackrock hovering in the wings such planning will have been in place long before the GE2024. It might have taken a little while to join the dots but that’s very much where we are right now.
The whole of the countryside is facing a battle to survive both economically and culturally. At the current rate of attrition there will be little left come 2029.
A British Government setting out purposely to destroy its traditional agricultural production base whatever the collateral damage in human, environmental and national strategic cost. Truly unbelievable and genuinely frightening.




















