Sad little village people holding onto their petty powers to give their life purpose. Used to live in a place like this, same old shyte.

The Councils are full of egos and people who doñ't want change. I live in one of those communities. Its a daily fight to try and stay in the 21st century and help small business prosper.

Imagine debting yourself up to make your way through Law School just to end up practicing this kind of "law". I'd disown this little prick

Useful idiots trying to assert authority theyve never had.

Can those councils be sued for harassing and malicious treatment of local farmers?

I do not know who is on the local council but whoever they are they seem very small minded people who have maliscious intent towards Jeremy and the Diddly Squat Farm.

its the neighbors that are raising constant complaints against Jeremy, the council is not just the only culprit.

Ahhh the days of mandatory mask wearing and getting fired if you didn’t get your Covid shots Who are the idiots that enforced this totalitarian rule!!

This council is a joke they are useless citizens, happy to have power.

Jeremy do you supply any farm shops in London?

Damned bureaucrats ruin everything. They are like mold in the wall.

It’s like the HOA’s in America but worse

Jackass!! Rural beauty my ass! People need to feed their families. Just because he is getting fed doesn't mean everyone else is. What a shitload of idiots these councilmen!

This is why real people with real things to do need to run for council. If you had real farmers there they wouldn't go round and round pushing papers trying to justify their existence. Participatory democracy only works if you participate

Control, there are people who just love to be in control, to prevent you from being happy.

Clarkson said heres a great solution these twaters said no its a mile drive but there will be signs telling us its there otherwise why go there in the 1st place

Its ok all this to feed their little egos and their imaginery importance in the big wheel

But an apartment built to house migrants is approved immediately.

There needs to be some kind of government investigation into the behaviour of that council...I suspect theres other local government organisations like them that have also become a law unto themselves too.

2:22 😂😂

Just remember - all the people who fail catastrophically in all other forms of business naturally gravitate towards councils. This is why they are so consistently inept.

I hope you sucssed Jeramy, farmers are adapting to the thides of the world ore are faiding away and wild nature are claiming bakc that`s belonge to it.

You refer to barristers as counsel, not council

Wait, the building is already there?? Why tf are we even talking about this? 😂 bureaucracy knows no bounds

STOP PAYING COUNCIL TAX

we are an "EQUAL NUMBER OF VOTERS" don't you mean "even" bro?

Brilliant to video it. They'll get famous 😂😂😂

Here is the US, this would have been approved without any worry. This is on the level of a Homeowners Association. Why can’t you just tell them to F off, sue them in court, and remind them who has more money, more powerful connections, and that they’re hurting local farmers?

Local councils can be a cancer in the UK, especially in rural areas

1:29 - 1:54. Not wanting to jump on a bandwagon of bullying or harassing the barrister, but his case falls down on a business and contextual level. When the lambing shed was built, Clarkson had only just taken over from the previous farmer and demonstrated a more idillic attitude to it. Thinking he could sell lambs for pure profit, not knowing the cost of vets, shearers, shepherds, sheep dogs, etc. It was only after a few months that he realised he'd have been better off mowing his un-farmed fields in his tractor. As intelligent a wordsmith as he can be, JC has proven at times that he can be impetuous; often acting first and thinking afterwards. Nobody could have predicted Covid was going to happen or lock the country down, causing the profit margins in lambing to narrow as much as it did. With all the planning permission, cost and work involved in building a lambing shed to begin with, only for the worst global event in the 21st Century (so far) to hamper the chance of raking in the profits, it would make more business and economic sense to avoid sheep farming altogether and build a cattle/restaurant enterprise from the beginning. So, to say the plan was to turn it into a restaurant from the outset, given all the time and financial expense to go the proverbial long-way-round, is pretty ludicrous. Especially as it depends on JC being able to predict the damage Covid was going to cause. It's like if Weatherspoons did a crash course in banking, built a bank from the ground up and deliberately ran it through a financial crash for the sake of turning it into another pub. It's easier, cheaper and less wasteful to buy and convert a disused building previously used as a bank in the first place. By re-using the existing building for a more profitable purpose, it would have reduced overhead startup costs and carbon footprint on a whole new construction site. More power to JC for managing to open a restaurant in the end. But shame on the council for backing themselves and Diddly Squat into the corners they ended up in.

What a disgraceful display of arrogance, ignorance and sheer personal bias. Farmers are having an ever worsening hard time of things from many different quarters, but this from a local council is short sighted and totally unnecessary. I sincerely hope that the ballot box reflects this

Pathetic council and people

Who is laughing now.. local councils are a complete waste..

The idiot council, send some bees to them

"Actually I do go out for dark skies" - Yeah, for a spot of dogging in the town hall car park!

Look I am 22 years old living in the balkans. Primary problem with our farmers comest from overubandce of imports and little to no goverments subsdidies. Now explain me this do these people do not know what kind of brand Diddly Squat and the restourant represent. People will not come because of Diddly Squat itself if they did they would surely be less of them they come because Jeremy is the owner Jeremy is the brand name you may or may not like him but he himself is a brand he will bring customers he will provide jobs imagine telling friends family colleagues I have been to/working at ,provided supplies for the place that Jeremy owns Are these people insane

SPOILERS!!!! In the new season Clarkson wins the appeal and gets permission for most stuff. EDIT: they can't use the barn for the restaurant unfortunately

Make as many stupid rules as you want, Council. We'll always find loopholes and ways to give you the middle finger. ;)

What a bunch of wankers

charlie is destroying the farm

These people remind me of those creepy villagers in that film Hot Fuzz

What a bunch of idiots

What a bunch losers.

When load migrants start camping there 😂😂

As someone who has worked on a farm in the past I can tell you this. Local councils are just little Hitler's that only do the job to go on power trips to overcome their own insecurities

You’re not happy? Well that’s me sacked then.

Local councils, bravo. Idiots.

We all hate woke ness

Hold the L Clarky boyyyyyyyy

So Hot Fuzz was accurate?