The kulaks are revolting - does Urban back big farmer?

[Bahnhof Strasse]

To be a farmer there, you have to be deemed fit to farm by the local administration. I doubt whether many landowners simply buying up farmland would pass that test.” He suggested a similar policy could be put in place in the UK, with true farmers given tax benefits.

In the UK the local administration will nearly always be filled with the landed gentry, so would probably result in fewer actual farms being farmed.

this fucking country.

 

[Chz]

The clue was in the " any land left unused for two years or more" bit, which allows a year fallow and an extra year to decide what you want to plant there.

Most "fallow" fields do in fact have something planted in them. Just not a cash crop. Just leaving them to nature doesn't work as well, so I think the limit is fine so long as planting clover or whatnot doesn't count as "unused".

 

[Elpenor]

Was known as set aside under CAP wasn’t it?

 

[Lotte]

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you:

Farmer protest organiser was behind racist and homophobic posts online

Clive Bailye, one of the five farmers who organised the march in the capital, wrote: "only a disabled, unemployed, black, LGBT, transgender, non tax paying, homeless, vegan immigrant in immediate need of NHS help" would vote Labour

www.mirror.co.uk

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Which is a bit rich considering how many Tories are tax dodgers. And farmers complaining about tax.

 

[brogdale]

Not the first time, I find myself part of a small minority...

 

[Elpenor]

A brief and totally both sided mention in tonight's episode of the Archers

 

[PTK]

A brief and totally both sided mention in tonight's episode of the Archers

I thought that it was on last night's episode that it was shoe-horned in.

 

[Elpenor]

I thought that it was on last night's episode that it was shoe-horned in.

Oh yes, only listened to it tonight

 

[PTK]

Oh yes, only listened to it tonight

Tha't a relief. I am not going sealion.
I thought that the mention of the farmers' protest was a little clumsy.