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I watched about 10 mins. Maybe it was just the ****************offery of TV sensationalism that pissed me off but genuinely couldn’t stand that he was so inept and clueless. There was a feature in the Oxford Mail last week. A county council trying to impose vegan meals at council meetings was met with a “very British protest” of farmers - including Clarkson apparently - handing out free meat snacks. So, yes, I’d agree, he is no doubt on the side of the farmer - he’s recently become one (wonder if I might try and look up his subsidy levels,) The appropriate question might perhaps not be whether Clarkson is on side though.... It’s the consumer public that needs to be on side.... Without that, it really is hopeless.

The thread has (not may have) touched upon aggression and the perceived reasons for it. Bit confused by next bit - do you mean the cattle in the incident which is the subject of the thread. I did go back and re-read the original HSE article to check detail. It is sketchy but you make reasonable assumptions - assumptions are a degree or two short of facts / proof though.

Countryfile has been a misnomer for yonks.... Kind of agree though. What’s even worse is that complete tosser Clarkson throwing ££££s at land and kit (whilst milking subsidy) and pissing around like a fool in a tractor.

Ah, like the joke you have explain.... I perhaps shouldn’t have linked that article to that part of your previous post - it was only intended as an amplification of the perception of a gulf between ag and gen pop. I probably didn’t think or present the point very well - it’s just that it literally popped up on BBC news at 6 as I was reading your post. Wasn’t intended as any sort of criticism. The thread has touched upon several potential contributory factors in what might be perceived as an increase in herd aggression. I think it would be fair to consider external financial pressures leading to less sensitive farming practices might have a part to play... I think so. (Heaven forbid anyone suggest a link between bTB and intensive dairy practice - that really would kick start the detail!)

Jeeeeeez! BBC news at 6 + Panarama program (presumably on later) featuring dairy cruelty... Doesn’t make for easy watching. They’ve just said “milk is far too cheap” and it absolutely is. I love my cheese / cream / milk etc, but I abhor modern diary practice. Panorama 14 February 2022: A Cow's Life: The True Cost of Milk? TVEVERYDAY.COM Most of us drink cow’s milk, but are we paying enough for it? Panorama investigates the dairy industry to find...

The abject lack of awareness, coupled with an overt willingness to publicly state an intent (and or history) of unlawful activity in relation to potential firearms offences is absolutely staggering. If ever there were a call for tighter firearms regulations, posts like that which claim to have repeatedly / routinely misused firearms is the golden ticket. Yes, of course irresponsible dog ownership is a significant problem which needs to be addressed - but such ignorance is frankly staggering. How the thread has even morphed from the prosecution (yes prosecution - it has already been subject to judgement despite the obvious disagreement from some posters here) for H&S failings to somebody claiming to, and advocating, the shooting of dogs - for me - just about typifies the ever growing delta between the agricultural sector and society. If he really has shot that many dogs he’s lucky to have avoided a nap in the slurry pit courtesy of one of those dogs owners.

You know the difference between a buffalo and a bison right....?

An interesting read. Not sure ‘objectivity’ is a prime driver - hell, it’s pretty obvious it isn’t 😂 Haters gonna hate to use modern vernacular. The hate severely detracts from any constructive criticism that might exist and made it very difficult to read (take seriously.) At least in the context of this discussion it is the comparison between projects like Poundbury and ‘standard’ development sites which we are discussing in response to J’s stance that all UK housing / development is shite. Whilst HRH talks a good game on sustainability, environment, society, history etc etc, what about the 🐘 nobody wants to talk about.... What actually needs to be addressed is why do we need ever more houses rather than making better use of what we have and avoiding the constant demand for more. The Western world seems obsessed with a perpetual ‘growth’ model which - of itself - is a fundamentally flawed concept. Doesn’t matter how ‘environmentally friendly’ a development claims to be - it cannot be as ‘environmentally friendly’ as NOT doing it in the first place....

I wasn’t aware of this one:

Poundbury - Poundbury - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Farmer sentenced after walker killed by cattle | HSE Media Centre PRESS.HSE.GOV.UK Simple, easily avoided, unnecessarily careless?

Very good ideas in theory but rather odd in practice. Have you been there? I have; it was all quite disconcerting. Not bad, just disconcerting. The blurred lines between pedestrian spaces and traffic spaces, between commercial and domestic areas, between municipal and private spaces. Maybe it's still just too new, needs time to weather in. Yeah, been there, ages ago. Really liked it - as a casual visitor. Interesting that you find the shared space disconcerting. That was one factor that I was exceptionally drawn to - people taking responsibility for the consequences of their actions, not being channelled into predetermined lanes just because that is how it is marked up. No markings equals no presumed ‘rights’ of way - everyone just finds their own path....

I like a lot of what Poundbury stands for, some concepts / covenants are a bit strange but overall, I likey.

Yome coming at it wrong way round yoof. What is shite, illogical and indefensible is that a ‘system’ has been allowed to establish where someone is required to pay out to do a pointless qual to defend an employer for liability for individual carelessness, clumsiness and/or stupidity. Is there anyone (employer or employee) that doesn’t hold CSCS in utter contempt?

Eeeeeeek! ”...the best of modern architecture....” Maybe - if you’re happy to live in a house inspired by an airport departure lounge. There are great historic skills and knowledge inextricably linked to social and historical influences which run through a large portion of the established UK housing market. Houses built in a certain place for a certain purpose - not necessarily architect designed, but built by skilled and knowledgeable master tradesmen that had a living connection with the location, prevailing climate and social requirement. Yes - late ‘development’ houses are shite of design and construction but it would be shortsighted to focus only on that aspect and apply it across the entire subject.

It seems to me there are many strong lobby voices - retail, construction, transport, farming.... The only one conspicuous by its absence - and surprising since it is undeniably the largest - consumers! People are too relaxed about accepting the patently unacceptable....

You can have a planning condition imposed to specify hours of operation on site if it’s a development - doesn’t apply to smaller scale, random one off scenarios like felling a single / group of trees of hedge cutting etc.

That’s a good point.

I’m not sure you’ll find ‘definitive’ answers. More, likely what is reasonable. Not particularly unreasonable to do hedge cutting on a weekend - it happens throughout suburbia all summer long. Only time I’ve ever had an ‘intervention’ was a site clearance which we did on a weekend to suit a couple of lads child care arrangements. Neighbours were looking for any excuse to oppose the development so called noise abatement. I think it ended up being 08:00-17:00 Mon-Fri 08:00-13:00 Sat and none on a Sunday / Bank Holiday. Developer complied since he didn’t want to upset planning but it cost him because he still had to pay for work that couldn’t be completed within contract days. Extract from “Noise” page of my LA attached - I think you’d be rare to have a complaint - unless you were doing same tree / hedge every weekend (but that’s unlikely.) Sorry, no direct answer to the question. I’d just say to anyone that complains - you show me the reference. If you can’t find they won’t be able to either....

Not just a “thing” in Scotland apparently. Watched a news article last night which described a recent “memo” from US Dept of Homeland security where upon - it was reported that - guidance existed that criticism of federal government could be grounds for classification as domestic terrorism. It was also stated that the memo is “time sensitive” and might expire in June. Point being, would that be an indicator of a specific activity?? A Trump activity perhaps? A truckers protest expansion from Canada? All quite sinister if “as reported” There will be no criticism of the Dear Leader....

Check yr weblink Tom - didn’t work when I looked. Sounds like a great opportunity for someone. I’d have been on that in my yoof 😂

Then let them see 2 major o&g companies file combined North of £20billion profit whilst doubling voters domestic bills - that’s only ever gonna end 1 way.

It’s coming......

What, why no 🤮 emoji.....

I toyed with going commercial for the tariff - espesh when the domestic tariff was so delayed after the PV and commercial RHI tariffs were self evidently poorly considered, over generous and open to such flagrant abuse (NI and “we’ll fit your panels for the FiT” as case in point.) I toyed with running an underground pipe to an outbuilding with a radiator to keep the frost (rare in Kernow) off the dogs, call it a business unit and claim business small unit rate relief. Too much faff at a busy time so I waited for domestic tariff. Disappointed that it was ultimately down rated from system lifespan to 7 years and the index linked element was removed - but I can’t really complain about the commercial tariff being over generous and then complain that domestic was reduced and delayed after lessons learned. It’s still paid back £27k on the 7 years which WAY outstrips install costs and with only a ton of pellets bought per year (£200-250ish) it’s been a nice touch.