Bristol Steve

Nothing to see here...move along.

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@GordonIren49602 @SamaHoole Yet they actually believe themselves to be significantly more enlightened, being morally and intellectually superior.

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@SamaHoole @cat_gorm Letting our food security lie in others hands; we'd never do that. That would be the same madness that would allow our essential manufacturing to be outsourced and held out of our control overseas. We'd never allow that...

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@SamaHoole @NewtimberSteph Bit like Defence Spending in general. If you consider DS as an insurance policy that successive govmnts have refused to fund properly because they think we're unlike to need it and we haven't had a real bump for 80yrs. We're barely at 3rd party, fire and theft levels.

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@DrChrisParry @MPS51240162 What a daft response. Dashcam is always a good idea.

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@JChimirie66677 Performative as all hell from the Italians. They don't share a border, and the illegals are hardly getting on aircraft or ferries.

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The BBC has had thirty eight years and £3.8 billion a year to explain British farming to the British public. The job was eventually done by an American shopping website, in eight episodes, fronted by the man the BBC itself dropped over a row about a steak.

Countryfile first went out on 24 July 1988, and its origin is the part nobody brings up. It replaced Farming, a programme that had spent thirty years making news for the people who actually did the work. The new show was deliberately widened to take in everybody who merely liked the countryside as well as those who lived off it. Widened meant softened. In 2009 it moved to Sunday evenings, where five to six million people still watch, and it has been settled ever since into an hour of scenery, a ramble, a calendar competition and the weather.

Then in June 2021 a company best known for selling doorbells put out a series about a man failing to farm a thousand acres, and within a week the British public understood the subsidy system.

Look at what an American retailer put on screen that thirty eight years of Sunday nights had not. A thousand acres, a full year of work, £144 profit. A crop drowning in the field with nobody coming to help. A farmer selling at a price he is not allowed to set. A council able to shut a restaurant standing on a man's own land. The accounts, open, with jokes over the top.

James Rebanks, who keeps sheep for a living rather than for a segment, reckoned Clarkson did more for farmers in one series than Countryfile had managed in thirty years. The NFU said the same thing in nicer words.

Now the funding, which is where it gets genuinely funny.

Countryfile is paid for by £180 a year, rising on 1 April, taken from every household in Britain that watches live television, on pain of prosecution. Twenty three million licences. Three point eight billion pounds. Guaranteed money, a captive audience, a national mandate and a prime Sunday slot.

Clarkson's Farm is paid for by people voluntarily pressing play, and it goes out in more than 240 countries.

The nation's farmers had one broadcaster legally funded by them, obliged to serve them, sitting on the biggest slot in British television. It gave them a weather forecast and a photography competition, and when a bloke with a Lamborghini tractor did the actual job for free, the same building's stars went on a sofa to complain about his opening credits.

The BBC had the money, the mandate, the Sunday night and thirty eight years.

It used them to film the view.

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@TheCriticalDri2 KK told us it wasn't for us anymore. I guess those who she made it for do. She was right it certainly was us.

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@SamCKx Not aware, not sure I care. Imagine a life so boring that you're not wanted in three countries for your shenanigans. 🤣

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@AdmV0rl0n Claude and chatgpt are literally dumber than a rock. They ain't building anything we need to fear. 🤣

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@Selene_Mariposa I played decent, but not elite level rugby for over a decade in my twenties, and early thirties. Absolutely would not have wanted to play on turf.

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@MattWallace888 Ignore this clickbait BS, block and move on.

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@Selene_Mariposa Turf not surf obvs,🫣

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@Selene_Mariposa In the field of elite sports playing surfaces, I'm not sure turf is considered 'progress' by anyone other than the companies selling surf tech, and the stadium owners who don't want to pay for skilled grounds staff.

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@Selene_Mariposa The athletes seem to prefer grass over turf. Yes they are bigger, faster and stronger than ever before. Grass gives a little when you turn and cut. Grass gives when your knee, shoulders, elbow hits it. Protect the players. Technology needs to grow grass better, not improve turf.

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@MickMurphy13575 @Shunyaa00 It's literally on video. You are an example of why the left is desperate to doom us all in the name of your performative goodness.

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@London_W4 And when we wish to send their own wrong'uns back they say no. And we accept it. And we give them money instead. Someone make it make sense.

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@TBrit90 @thinkdefence Maybe realising we should never have decided on the Bs in the first place.

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@JohnSimpsonNews Just imagine what it's like to have politicians with some national pride and a sense of humour willing to wind up the opposition. Our lot would rather propose we start 1 goal down and apologise for fielding a full 11.

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@JChimirie66677 To understand the level of what the country is dealing with. People would literally superglue themselves to the tyres of the aircraft we tried to deport in if we even tried. They'll sacrifice everything in their performative 'goodness' to show how righteous and forgiving they are