Martyn Durran

Lucky in life, lucky in love, sense of humour failure over woke, virtue signalling types and politicians, hope to regain it, before meeting my maker.

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@JamesMelville Industrial suicide. Net zero idiocy. UK the laughing stock of the world. History will judge these morons very harshly.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

BP has announced it is putting its entire UK North Sea business up for sale, officially ending six decades of oil and gas production. This is a devastating blow for communities connected to the oil and gas industry. And shame on the governments who have enabled this to happen.

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@SpeechUnion Friggin’ ridiculous

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop was ruled by West Oxfordshire District Council to be incompatible with its countryside location. The countryside location is a farm.

Those are close to their own words. The nature, scale and siting of the operation was found to be unsustainable and incompatible with its countryside location within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The building at the centre of it was a lambing shed. Built for lambs. In a field. Next to other fields, which contain sheep, which is what the shed was for.

The council's other findings, over three years of this:

- A farm shop may not sell food grown more than sixteen miles away.
- A lambing shed may not become a restaurant.
- A car park for the people who come anyway was refused.
- Six weeks was judged ample to put the barn back the way it was.

Sixteen miles. Meanwhile the supermarket eleven miles down the road sells Peruvian asparagus, Kenyan beans and Brazilian beef, and no council has ever drawn a circle round it.

And consider what the Cotswolds actually are. Stone walls, stone barns, cropped green hills. It looks the way it looks because for a thousand years men kept animals on that ground and built things out of the rock underneath it. The beauty under protection here was manufactured, slowly, by farming. Every wall in the view was put there by somebody doing precisely what the council has now determined is out of keeping.

They are not protecting the countryside from industry. They are protecting a picture of the countryside from the countryside.

The shed offended nobody while it held sheep.

It became an eyesore the day somebody put a till in it.

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@andyburnham A piss poor actor

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨NEWS: Three women found dead on a small migrant boat are believed to have been raped and murdered during the Channel crossing.

Their killers are now in the UK.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: Marine Le Pen ERUPTS "Freedom of movement is only for Europeans!"

If migrants enter Spain, they should not then be allowed to travel into France and the rest of Europe.

This is common sense

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@TalkTV @jkyleofficial We should be building dozens of mental health asylum’s for these people, they shouldn’t be among us, never mind given media attention.

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

No. They didn’t. Stop lying.

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@JamesMelville Traitor

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@jomickane Utter cretin

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

This is the moment

The Spanish will rise

It will spread

War(s) began with this moment

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@NotFarLeftAtAll Sausage

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@vonderleyen Not sure who are the greater barbarians, the EU or those streaming over the borders.

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@sanchezcastejon You utter moron

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@seangbuckley @Iromg Another lying cunt then!

[Sean Buckley 🇬🇧 @seangbuckley]

Saint Andy spanked for lying @Iromg😂😂😂

[Martyn Durran @MartynJPD]

@TalkTV Alex Phillips, you are utterly fantastic, fabulous & feisty.
You are a national treasure who definitely speaks for the silent majority in this nation. Long may you have a platform, it’s so important that your voice is heard loud and clear.
@ThatAlexWoman

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

Insane scenes with thousands of North African men storming the Spanish borders

An invasion

Italy saying it's a crisis. Threatening to shut borders and leave Schengen

A continental crisis is happening

UK leaders? Silent

Only Nigel Farage speaking at this point

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Two hundred of the thousand acres at Diddly Squat grew nothing at all this year. That was a decision taken in advance, on a spreadsheet. Wheat or barley on that ground was a guaranteed loss before the drill left the shed, so Jeremy Clarkson left it bare and explained why in his Sun column this week.

One line from it went everywhere. Farmers have reached the point where it is quite simply impossible to make money from growing food. Every paper carried that sentence, and every paper stopped there.

The list underneath it did not get printed anywhere.

Because he went on to set out what two hundred acres of good English ground could do instead of feeding anyone, and there were four items on it.

- Rent it to a global agri-company growing crops for anaerobic digesters.
- Cover it in solar panels.
- Put a data centre on it.
- Sell the farm to a Chinese company for a multistorey high-intensity piggery.

Every one of those pays. The only use of that land which reliably loses money is the one that puts food on a British plate. He added that he was not being ridiculous, and that anybody in 1926 would have laughed you out of the room for suggesting the factories would be gone by 2026.

Now the bit with a date on it.

From 1 January 2027 the UK's carbon border tax applies to imported fertiliser. The Treasury's own costings put the take at £140 million in 2027-28, rising to £180 million the year after. Estimates of the hit run from around £33 a tonne to £75, which is a fifth to a quarter added to the largest input bill an arable farm carries. The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers has warned that a typical 500 acre cereals farm could be down as much as £70,000 once fertiliser and fuel costs land.

So the fertiliser that grows the wheat gets taxed on a known date, in writing, by a government that says out loud it wants food security.

Nobody in Whitehall has ever signed a policy to stop Britain growing food. They have signed a great many that make every alternative pay better, which arrives at the same field.

And understand whose field this is. Diddly Squat has a television crew, a farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, a lager brand, a bestselling book every autumn and one of the best land agents in the country. It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and two hundred of them were left bare this year because putting seed in them was the losing move.

Every arable farmer in England is doing that same sum this autumn. Almost none of them have a production company to cover the difference.

Those two hundred acres have not gone out of production. They are waiting to hear which industry wants them more than you do.