Mark J Lawson

Experienced buying agent and country lover, specialising in the purchase of large country houses, farms and residential estates throughout the whole of the UK.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson made £144 farming a thousand acres in his first year.

In year six he lost five thousand.

His own words to his land agent: dispiriting enough to clear a hundred and forty-four quid at the start, and here we are six years on, down five grand. The harvest had been projected at thirty-seven thousand profit. Weather and prices took it.

Now look at what that thousand acres has behind it that yours does not.

One of the best land agents in the country. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. A farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, bestselling books, more than a quarter of a million in subsidy across three years, and a television production paying for the entire thing to be filmed.

It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and the farming still loses money.

That figure should end every conversation about British agriculture, and it is the one number that never makes it onto a campaign graphic. Not the glyphosate. Not the pig housing. The margin.

Because everything people object to on a farm grows straight out of it. The field pushed to the very edge. The hedge that came out because the government paid to have it removed. The shed instead of the yard. The supermarket contract signed below cost because the alternative was no contract. Nobody intensified out of malice. They were priced into it over sixty years by a policy that decided cheap groceries mattered more than a countryside, and by a retail sector that kept the difference.

Britain now grows around sixty per cent of its own food. More than a third of British farmers are past sixty-five.

The man with the Amazon cheque cannot make a thousand acres pay.

The seventy-year-old with three hundred and no film crew is doing it anyway, and being told by people who have never sold a tonne of anything that he is the problem.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I’m starting to worry he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. And has no time to learn. The price of water and electricity is already controlled by the state.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.

I have now received an apology from the editor.

My interview is below: 👇🏻

[Harry Brown @HazBrown1]

It's fucking tragic 🤦🏻‍♂️

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Never forget in 2003 Keir Starmer won the case that gave illegal migrants access to UK benefits. Twenty three years later, we're living in the chaos he created.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries.

Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences.

We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea.

Insane.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

When Labour came to power July 2024 it inherited a recent OBR forecast of a £77bn deficit for 2025/26. Part of a sensible, steady downward trend in borrowing after the binge borrowing during the pandemic and the energy crisis caused by the Ukraine war.
Reeves blew up that downward trend and went on yet another borrowing binge, which is why the deficit ended up £132bn in 25/26, despite a massive increase in taxes. I see no grounds for ‘warm words’ whatsoever. Her reckless fiscal policies are why we have the highest borrowing costs in the G7.

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

Norway collected £50bn from North Sea oil and gas last year.

We collected £4.4bn, having taxed our own producers into closure in pursuit of a #netzero fantasy.

I cannot think of a cleaner example of a government failing its people @Keir_Starmer and @Ed_Miliband

https://t.co/qNr40cl0xZ

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Starmer and Reeves would rather pay people to do nothing than pay to defend the nation - leaving us more vulnerable than at any time in our history

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🖋️ "No prime minister who genuinely wants to prioritise the nation’s interests can avoid addressing the potentially lethal shortfall in military capability Britain now faces," writes Tom Harris.

🔗: https://t.co/B6oWQ6JuuT

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

✍️ 'The most resilient people in Britain – those of us who get up every morning and work for a living, put money aside for a rainy day, and invest in our families’ futures, often against huge adversity – are being screwed by this Government at every turn' | Writes @CamillaTominey

🔗: https://t.co/gMwIJezb13

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Another big independent schools closes due to Labour’s vindictive attack with VAT and rates

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Walker T Smith, 54, had 17 years unblemished experience with @waitrose, & working in Clapham Junction. He stopped to shoplifter from stealing Easter eggs.

Instead of being thanked he was sacked.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Lifting the two child cap is yet more welfare, paid for by working people.

A third of the beneficiaries are recent arrivals to the UK.

Reform will defuse the benefits bomb bankrupting Britain.

We’re for workers, not welfare.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

Letter to CEO of Waitrose calling for their employee Walker Smith to be reinstated and given a bonus - after he was disgracefully sacked for tackling a shoplifter

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Labour are throwing bucket loads of cash at their voters. Many of whom have never paid into the system in their lives.

Come here, do piss all and get rewarded

Meanwhile our elderly, our nurses and our own in need are left to struggle alone.

This is batshit bonkers britain

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Keir Starmer claims Nigel Farage is to blame for the boat people because Brexit took us out of the Dublin Convention (in 2020), which allowed us to return asylum seekers to the EU countries from whence they came.
The PM is either ignorant of the facts — or knowingly lying. Neither is a good look.
The Dublin Convention was a two-way street for asylum seekers. Yes, we could try to return them. But others could also be returned to us.
As a result the Dublin Agreement actually made us a net recipient of asylum seekers.
Take 2018. We made 5,500 requests for asylum seekers to be returned. Only 209 transfers were agreed. In the same year, under the same convention we accepted 1,215 asylum seekers. So we were net recipients by over 1,000. The Dublin Convention did nothing to make it easier to return asylum seekers.
Nearly all politicians are cavalier with the truth when it suits them. But Starmer is taking this to a new level.

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

I would ensure Afghan rapist Ahmad Mulakhil never steps foot in Britain ever again.

https://t.co/NcMC6SfNJR

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Ed Miliband’s Net Zero fantasy is now hitting reality.

We’re on the brink of importing salt, a resource Britain has produced for generations.

This isn’t climate leadership. It’s industrial self sabotage.

And it’s our children who’ll inherit the cost.