Clarksons Farm (Defeating the Council) Approved Barn Restaurant

Clarksons Farm (Defeating the Council) Approved Barn Restaurant

[@henrybernert2253]

His genius is almost frightening

[@juleshorse9056]

This is brilliant. We need to call out the extensive, over-burdening, bureaucratic and business dampening regulations that hamper over 99% of UK registered businesses (99% of registered companies in 2022 were SMEs). The government talks the talk on helping business but does nothing to help them grow (pun intended!).

[@superspiegi7098]

Its also exact the same in every country of the EU!!

[@Toodyslexicforyou]

@@superspiegi7098and around the world

[@dazzaMusic]

Because they want all small businesses to go and want mega corporations to swallow everything up.

[@fpvDRE]

more to do with the locals moaning tbh

[@lsmithhat8541]

@@fpvDRE Not many people like Jeremy Clarkson.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Stubbornness, grey areas and a limited-but-flexible budget. Claxon was born for this.

[@fpvDRE]

👍

[@theseageek]

It’s absolutely disgusting how the local town council pitted against Clarkson, but the Genius himself still triumphed at the end, as he should 👏👏👏 Major kudos to you Jezza for the victory and for shining a light on the struggles of farmers

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Councils are nothing but scum.

[@falmark187]

Sometime you have to aks if these councils are there for the community or if they are out to destroy them, the way they turned down absolutely everything he tried to do was just ridiculous. They even denied him building a farm-road to the restaurant if I remember right.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

I find it utterly disagraceful and hugely unjustifiable that a council can DENY someone planning permission for a small farm track on their OWN land. Imagine if you bought a piece of land for £150k, and wanted to build a tiny little shop in one corner of it and the nazi council said "COMPUTER SAYS NOOOOO". I often find Councillors are good for nothing, usually retired people with a sense of "self want" and the idea that they are "representing" their people simply by saying "that's a good idea that", "I'll have a word with xyz" and 2 years later still nothing has changed. My local councillor is an old woman who's about as much use as a chocolate teapot - very demanding of the local police and other agencies and thinks she's super important - she hasn't actually had anything changed or done in the whole time she's been there... my now 84 year old neighbour achieved more! I live just off a main road, there's a cul de sac that backs onto that main road and from my road school kids on their way to and from school used to cross the busy main road where people regularly speed to walk up the cul-de-sac along the rest of the route to school, many kids were nearly hit by cars travelling at excess speed over a 20 year period, there were a few collisions with pedestrians but to my knowledge no fatal accidents, almost all of those collisions with pedestrians were with young school kids, and the majority of the rest were the elderly. My neighbour complained and complained and eventually after many years of campaigning and petitioning a pedestrian crossing was installed on that exact spot where people used to have to literally dash across the road to avoid being hit.

[@addrock7695]

Conduct a forensic financial investigation into all that make most of these insane bylaws etc. How many conflicts of interests would be uncovered along with the blatant corruption that goes along with the power to make the rules for their communities

[@MrTVintro]

To be fair to the council, anything that pushes that amount of traffic over farm roads are an inherent issue. The shop had traffic jams that were kilometers longs, on rural roads.

[@endmyexistence]

@@MrTVintro Which was solved by building a car park, until the council told them that they couldn't build a carpark

[@MrTVintro]

@@endmyexistence Having a car park doesn't magically solve the bandwith of rural roads.

[@kuntakinte4333]

Buy a white peace pigeon... 52.000.000 £ Get a brand new tank free!

[@neilwatson4461]

Love this, reminds me of a time when i used to go to a rugby club when the owner decided to reduce his investment and pull out which resulted in the club not being able to access the clubhouse on matchday to sell food and drink. The volunteers decided to make and sell it themselves but because we had no licence to sell alcohol i suggested that they put a sign up telling punters that if they donated £3 or so to club funds then they could have a can of beer for doing it, thankfully the local council never found out

[@Alastair_]

What's making this even worse is many of these councils are not inhabited by rich folk moving out to the country who have no idea what countryside life is like.

[@HawaiiJetboat]

If you dig and look hard enough you can find holes in Authoritarian strangleholds on Freedom. Great Job Farmers!

[@Kx0195]

My kind of comment. Fuck the whole system.

[@alansohn855]

Proud of a fellow Alan.

[@Supersurfer12]

Reminds me of an episode of the Drew Carey show where Drew sold maps that included a free bottle of beer.

[@aaronstestlab]

Amazing how much government permission one needs to operate a business in "free" countries.

[@dontalkt2meboutheros]

Brilliant!

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

3:30 I expect them to pull some “ship of Theseus” bullshit here. “Oh well you repaired it, so it’s not technically the same 100 year old structure”

[@simonl2072]

The council was focussed on an elderly conservative view which is you don't need it because we don't. But as they say decisions are made by those who show up.

[@jacob2808]

And unfortunately the only people with time to go to council meetings, are old people...

[@brentsrx7]

I love Jeremy Clarkson. This is hilarious.

[@tuicr8992]

Your council sucks.

[@tommitchell1826]

same here in Ireland mate runs pub local shop in rural village got bill from local council for 5000 euro rates now he gets nothing for this still has to pay for bins water electricity basically hs giving over money so he can open his doors

[@Veyron722skyhook]

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

[@MerlinOpeth]

If you ate today, thank a farmer.

[@pedrolg]

But, but.. I thought Brexit was about getting rid of all these silly regulations affecting local businesses !

[@judge81]

It was, and that's why we're voting out the Government this year, as they done nothing about it, given the freedom to

[@pedrolg]

@@judge81 local governments as well? Every single one of them? I'm afraid not.

[@judge81]

@@pedrolg Local Governments with too much power that should be removed from them, Clarkson's Farm showed it

[@rainbowappleslice]

could you not take the council to court if they're clearly acting in a biased and discriminatory way? Because that local council is clearly denying Clarksons planning permission for the barn and other various things based solely on the fact it's Jeremy and they don't like him, so wouldn't that be grounds for them discriminating on him?

[@gthjzby887]

How are you meant to take the people who manage the courts to court. They're not going to find themselves guilty.

[@rainbowappleslice]

@@gthjzby887 ever heard of the independent judiciary?

[@nickhinx22]

Didn’t the restaurant get forced to shut down a few months later?

[@bedeckt]

I guess the loopholes got loopholed :(

[@hippityhoppityw]

The UK is such a a fucking mess lol

[@eaeis9879]

Germany is the same. Bureaucracy is just killing economy and public servants don’t give af

[@bobosaurus331]

Everywhere is a mess lol

[@adamali2886]

charlie is destroying the farm

[@bigal3055]

That's because Charlie don't surf!

[@davidchodur7773]

And yet they shut him down.

[@simperous4308]

He should buy all the shops in the nearby town, then triple the prices. Fck the local Karens…

[@Atkirby]

Good on you Jeremy!

[@dnsvls]

And good on Alan for pitching such an idea!

[@mplewp]

This feels like nascar racing cheating :D

[@DanielDos2]

This is exactly why more government is NEVER the answer

[@arron9573]

Mr Clarkson is a cunning stunt.

[@markkao9954]

I need the action figures

[@ArnoldSmithFergusson]

I'd love all the member are had creative idea for helping Jeremy. Like everybody really eager to use this loophole of non-sense over complicated bureaucratic 😅

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

The farm is outside town proper the council shouldn’t have any say what he does on his private property

[@1911olympic]

80 pounds. For a few groceries. And now it is even worse.

[@oogabooga2337]

its a loophole to sell non-local items so they charge the price of the other item on a bit of fruit or whatever

[@TelmoAmaro]

The amount to stupid crap entrepreneurs have to go through because of sleezy, good for nothing, public bureaucrats. It's mind-boggling.

[@aker1993]

Not just bureaucrats but also nimbys and property realtors.

[@davebrooksbank7802]

No one paying cash

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Just imagine, one day you’re gonna have to hand a lady at the gentleman’s club your card, and make sure to ask for it back from the leg strap!

[@atangapaul1141]

Cow juice 😅😅😅

[@Jac76906]

His genius, it generate GRAVITY

[@nickb220]

did i see a 15 pound apple at 1:25

[@ryandeane427]

Ye but a free hat comes with it. Its essentially a loophole which allows them to sell non-locally produced items

[@jujitsujew23]

except the restaurant is dead. Jeremy eventually did pay to go to court and he lost. The court ruled he could have the car park but not a restaurant

[@frankvandorp9732]

That only proves the point though. Bureaucracy and overregulation really is catastrophic for entrepreneurs, you're just not allowed to do anything anymore because the government wants to control your every fart.

[@jimmyc974]

What exactly is wrong with you people of the ignoramus breed that infects social media . "Court" or The Planning Inspectorate.

[@vladvld3433]

dude. the video is from a year ago. a lot of it happened.it's like seeing a Kennedy video giving a speech and you come and say: "he's dead"..duh

[@jujitsujew23]

@@vladvld3433 the video is from 11 months ago, when was it that Kennedy died again? what terrible an atrocious analogy. Plus the judgement from the Secretary of State was much less than a year ago. Congrats on being both absurd and wrong

[@borris3768]

​@@jujitsujew23 you're stupid

[@HRHooChicken]

I can see the councils objection on this one. That new lamb shed was intentionally built by the farm shop so it could be 'repurposed' after series 1 into a restaurant. You can't have people doing that everywhere. There'll be pop up buildings all over the countryside and when the business fails it'll be converted to a house. As a one off i do support Jeremy but in the grand scheme of things i support any measure that blocks building on green fields.

[@Ants-iq9oh]

Also it absolutely did mess up the traffic flow and I guarantee that 95% of people going to the restaurant were leaving right after and not going anywhere else and feeding into the local economy

[@HRHooChicken]

@@Ants-iq9oh we need to support farmers by making farming profitable either through subsidies or import tariffs or whatever. Forcing them to diversify is silly. They’re farmers not restaurateurs.

[@hevyjameshulleza461]

This is why America won...😅😅😅

[@valkyrie941]

What?

[@AzguardMike]

won what? Every war they start, they loose. They only join in when the battle is over, or by dragging the English into a war they started and cant finish.

[@FishyAltFishy]

​​@@AzguardMikeAmerica is just better for business. Goofy UK leadership and decisions is even what led to their war for independence.

[@Elcicikos]

@@AzguardMike Did the US drag the UK into World War 2?