Jeremy Clarkson Vs The idiot council

Jeremy Clarkson Vs The Idiotic council.
He deserves a break as he's trying to solve a government issue caused by the council's.
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[@GBLyrics]

If people are wondering why the UK struggles with growth and investment, this is it

[@RetroEcoChicken]

not just the us, unfortunately the same shit happens in norway. 50 years ago you could build what ever the fck you wanted and now they are watching your propperty from sattelite view to find reasons to tax and cause bullshit. if you own the land you own the land, that should be the end of it.

[@B-I-G-N-A-S-T-Y]

Democracy can be a bitch

[@charlesxll7925]

@@RetroEcoChickenI agree, all these tyrannical municipalities can fuck right off.

[@ThomasBusby]

💯

[@christopheradderley6902]

This is it… distilled!

[@realmealdeal1999]

This is what it’s like in most villages in the UK. Village councils are a cancer to normal people trying to live a normal life.

[@blenderboy1900]

A lot of village councils are opposed to any form of change unfortunately

[@Alphoric]

No no no All councils are like this in England It’s bureaucracy and over complicated so that nothing gets done and when things do get done they’re 5x as expensive as they should be. Council contracts and planning permissions are a joke in this country

[@solaireastora5394]

​@@AlphoricI work for the council and I approve this message

[@TheGrenadier97]

Hard to know which is worse, a distant overwhelming tiranny or a local petty one. Makes me want a swiss direct democracy even more.

[@christopheradderley6902]

The people with too much time disrupt the lives of people with too little time already.

[@OutlyingOkapi]

"Wade through the spelling mistakes" was such a great line to slip in there 😂😂

[@ExplodingPiggy]

yeah, best to keep people on side and not reinforce the idea that you're a bit of a twat 😂

[@jomar5009]

Whispers: “You should learn to spell.” 😂😂😂

[@T0FFII]

Its called being professional. ​@ExplodingPiggy

[@MR5pAMFixER]

Turns out the lawyer in question was dyslexic and the some spellings had slipped through his spell checker if I remember correctly from some articles that came out shortly after

[@scerpalman]

@@MR5pAMFixER then you have a colleague/secretary/friend look through it, or get a better spell checker

[@RossMoore777]

Government: Farmers need to diversify Council: Rejects any attempt to diversify

[@timeprotector4320]

NO the defensive is in the right. It was a trojan horse and he ONLY gets his way because he is famous and cannot be touched.

[@RossMoore777]

@timeprotector4320 How was it a trojan horse? From what I know the lambing shed was built before he took over the farm

[@timeprotector4320]

@@RossMoore777 It was promised to be a lambing shed for years not just so they can do one run. Now they can play the card oh well oops since its already built let us modify it. Doesnt that sound fishy to you ? But regardless he gets his way because fame and influence. If this was your common farmer they would be denied and would need to keep it for its designed proposal or destroyed

[@RossMoore777]

@timeprotector4320 utterly ridiculous comment. How can you say that he always gets his way? He was denied the application. He was also denied a car park and even a farm track. Even Charlie said that he had never heard of a farm track being denied

[@timeprotector4320]

@@RossMoore777 hmmm okay ? In the meeting - He was denied. What they did was unethical and should never be allowed. You cant build something and swap its function. The episode went out he used his fame and influence to rally the population. The decision was overruled and he was allowed to build it. You tell me how that wasnt unethical because anyone else would have to jump hoops to get what they want.

[@leradze7125]

"You should learn to spell" brilliant. kind of ironic, the people who are supposed to lead a council or a country can't even spell properly....

[@Djnffnoeosmfasjjd]

He’s a barrister not a councillor

[@leradze7125]

@@Djnffnoeosmfasjjd it seems i made a mistake

[@TheElDoctoro24]

Overqualified to be a councillor

[@AH-be6bu]

There's a story Clarkson told in an old newspaper column where, as a young journalist, he misspelt a quote from a lawyer representing the national coal board concerning a death in the workplace, resulting in a deeply callous comment being wrongly attributed to the lawyer in question when the story was printed. Clarkson got an absolute bollocking from all sides for this and it probably would have cost him his career without the connections he had. And many years later he's reprimanding a lawyer for poor spelling!

[@Dominic-jr3on]

love when people kicked off at Clarkson cause the guy was dyslexic but the fact it wasnt proof read is ridiculous and not professional

[@kalebbruwer]

That chairman has that insufferable "look at me, this chair and suit makes me important!" look on his face

[@absoluteunit2424]

you could easily hold onto is moustache and dangle from it

[@funnycreature2331]

Well, he is. And they do.

[@Wolf-1211]

And the chairman looks around as he sticks his hand up and you can see he has clearly made up his mind before Clarkson even arrived, and when he said “all those against” and he put his hand up he scans over his councillors and you can tell it was a “if you don’t put your hand up, you’re gonna suffer for it” proved when others stuck their hand up after he glanced at them.

[@mdrocks7842]

well hes been voted out

[@FlAw88]

Don't forget the half-length tie!

[@Wolf-1211]

All a lot of this tells me is “Clarkson is far richer than us… so let’s say no to his plan” not actually looking into the fact that this would literally help the economy all over that local area not just Clarkson himself…

[@brentsrx7]

Did a British person have a non-socialist thought... Truly, prison time must be administered. What about your pension? and health and safety? What about the Labor Party and poor little Gretta Thumberg. How dare you!

[@leonodonoghueburke4276]

​@@brentsrx7 Are you alright?

[@brentsrx7]

@@leonodonoghueburke4276 LOL, I am mimicking the weird and oddly aggressive scatalogical opinions of your fellow countrymen. Or women, or zems, or they'd. Please don't sue me.

[@lokradan2677]

⁠​⁠@@brentsrx7Fun fact, the Labour Party isn’t socialist, and most British people tend to be drawn towards the centre-right (though that’s debatable), so most people don’t have “socialist thoughts”, though I guess that depends on your perspective

[@brentsrx7]

@@lokradan2677 My time in England felt more like a health and safety tour. I'm pretty sure you guys are required to get parliament approval to use the bathroom. Everything is controlled and regulated by the state. And all the old pensioners seem to like it that way.

[@pb4012]

I know nothing about this but clarkson had me sold on the idea after his statement. Very well put. Why wouldn’t you want a new restaurant in your area selling all the farmers’ local produce!

[@noneofyourbusiness4294]

This. The locals are fine with it, they even want to take part in it. Props to the Lady who came around.

[@Wolf-1211]

Because the council don’t actually like that idea, because it helps the common people thrive and they don’t like that.

[@Dutchman-2002]

@@Wolf-1211 it actually gets somewhere and does something (bane of all bureaucrats)

[@skar5541]

How dare any farmers diversify and make enough money to survive. It may effect the asthetics of our little village and cause me stress in my tiny little mind.

[@ethanguest3438]

Also seem to be blind to the fact that the farmers will end up just selling their land to property developers anyway if they can't make any money

[@connorbrall4213]

@@ethanguest3438Gods Green and Pleasant, to be turned into a massive Barratt home estate, marvellous

[@TheGrenadier97]

As much as i hate car parks, Clarkson' concept is so great and sensible it's ridiculous someone would be picky at a square to put cars into.

[@brad5426]

I am the same as you and even I noticed this was ethical and not land greed. Locally sourced ingredients and finacial gain for everyone, it more than makes up for having to see a small carpark.

[@Jack-Peters99]

Bunch of old farts honestly. I live in a town in Cornwall and the exact same thing happens here when anything new is suggested. It's instantly met with backlash and shut down "can't be having that in this quaint little town, it'll ruin the image". That's the problem with these old codgers, they've completely lost sight of things and cannot stand change, even if it'll bring something fresh and creative to the table.

[@PickleThePig]

Cornwall council are chasing me for planning for a shed I built in my garden. They don’t care I built it. They just want their fee paid. F them

[@DylanPelzer-lq7oy]

That is specifically why God invented arsenic, and things that can be made from arsenic that people, initially, do not know is made form arsenic.

[@Dani-it5sy]

What a gang of really creepy people 😱 Uff man that looked brutal. This is what happens when normal people don't want to work in politics anymore. You get more creeps, more normal people leave and at the end you only have this left.

[@Veyron722skyhook]

Well the normal people don't want to work in politics for very good reasons: They're shit, they don't work, and all they do is get in the way of progress and cause unneeded stress and frustration

[@user-vl5xo8og8s]

Councils have crazy ideas for new projects which they get government grants therefore an individual just wanting to move on has no chance. Councils need to live in reality and help individuals. Over years councils have reduced their public services to those who pay taxes and in the end support their wages and pensions. They must also stop destroying food producing land to build houses for an overpopulated country.

[@MIEJ4]

The UK is not overpopulated.

[@user-vl5xo8og8s]

@@MIEJ4 the UK IS OVERPOPULATED for the land mass and the capability of our welfare state. 44million is the correct max population. We are over 70million and far too many not paying into the welfare state and too many getting various subsidies. We import far too many goods which can be grown or manufactured in the UK. people want cheap unrealistically priced goods so they import from countries with poor human rights. Get real.

[@johnb8956]

@@MIEJ4that’s a wild comment. When small terraces are going for several hundreds of thousands of pounds, even in poorer areas, you can’t possibly argue the UK is not overpopulated.

[@WhoShorts_]

@@MIEJ4 obviously it is you spoon

[@RycerzRozySwietopelk]

@@user-vl5xo8og8s The UK is not overpopulated, we have a lot of land unused for housing and so on but it is largely owned by farmers, British nobility and so on. The British population is going to keep getting bigger and bigger no matter what people do. We have always imported goods from overseas since the Early Modern period because the British population demanded goods which can't be made/grown here in large numbers. Importing was once more expensive such as fine China, silk, spices and so on so they were sold to only those who could afford it. The Nobility and wealthy merchants. However that has all changed, anyone can afford these items that were once only for a very small % of people. Britain also needs workers for farms, and most of the British public do not want to do that work because they're lazy fucks who are likely paedos, alcoholics and so on (those folk on Universal Credit) so we have to get the Polish, and largely other Eastern Europeans to do it, who often are unpaid, treated badly and live in horrible conditions, yes, Britain has those issues too, not as bad as countries like China but it happens. Also for someone like me, I get a lot of my goods from Japan which has a higher import cost than stuff from China and takes longer to get here sometimes. China developed their economy and such to allow themselves to be a industrial powerhouse. Another note; it is easier for us to import than produce everything which can be done in this country. The British farmer's biggest buyers were the European Union and now they have to suffer with tariffs and other things unlike the farmers who can freely trade in the EU and make more money from it all. Britain imported wheat and other things from outside the UK during food shortages because Britain couldn't produce enough nor had extra when disease and the likes ruined crops. Import and Export has happened for centuries.

[@MartinWhite1957]

And to think …. All these Councillors are paid for this.

[@bradleyc543]

We need major planning reform in the UK

[@patrickbateman1660]

The labor government is planning to do this

[@quantumvideoscz2052]

@@patrickbateman1660 Really? What reform is it gonna be? Banning ALL individual planning? Making the councils even more bureaucratic?

[@spazmoidaljellyfish1277]

No wonder everything is imported now, it’s impossible to do anything here

[@ruk2023--]

Of course he built the building as a trojan horse. Can't blame him with our planning laws. Try telling someone in America that they can't build something on land they own...

[@waltersobchak1719]

The ironic thing is the building was already there, he just wanted to convert it for a change of use!

[@ruk2023--]

@@waltersobchak1719 it was there because he built it

[@crb8124]

City councils are just as bad in the US, but for homes instead of businesses. Try building a home

[@trainman665]

@@waltersobchak1719He built it not long before. That said the council were the ones being ridiculous.

[@DanielDos2]

It’s not even a Trojan horse situation. Sheep farming proved to be unprofitable for him so rather than demolishing the building and taking a loss he’s pivoting into something else. Makes perfect sense to anyone with even a sliver of a brain and business sense. That’s exactly why the council of morons struck it down.

[@AdamMFCW]

This made me genuinely angry when they refused it

[@bobosaurus331]

You’re not the only one

[@smith9808]

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

[@beechface1]

My dad used to live in a tiny village with no more than 10 houses, and a tiny little shop surrounded by farmland. He wanted to cut the hedge back in his front garden and they had to have a committee meeting, and it was denied. I will never, ever live in a small village, complete losers.

[@fatherofthenoo]

Farmers have created far bigger attractions on their land in order to bring in additional funding, than a little restaurant and car park (family play centres and the like). This whole situation, from Brexit and subsidies, to one of the worst governments in British history, has taught us that farming needs to both modernise, diversify and be financially respected (I'm looking at you, supermarkets).

[@looseycanon]

I wouldn't look at supermarkets... although your train of thought is on the right tracks... Unless you sell to the final customer, you'll never get the prices under control. What Jeremy should have done, was rebuild the shed into a warehouse, set up a joint venture with the other farmers and set his eyes to London, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford, Swindon, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Worcester, Coventry... Use his bigger than life persona to promote shops and restaurants in population centers. That is something that council would find harder to object to I think.

[@bencox614]

The funniest scene from series 2

[@brad5426]

3:22 as he said this two hundred episodes of top gear flashed before him

[@Giuseppe-ew8rx]

If this happened in italy, after the council said no they were going to get beaten 😂😂😂

[@RebelsInc969]

Hmmmm sounds like my kind of option for these Gestapo councillors 👍

[@ChristheXelent]

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.

[@TehBellcarl]

I’m saying this fully as an American Local counsels seem like nothing more than home owners associations with barely any more power yet you’re forced to live under them.

[@samscopeproductionz]

Glad to see that Labour plan on getting rid of these clowns if they get into government.

[@domidoo1753]

best part is Ive been here, and you seriously cant tell that your there until you are literally ontop of it, we were trying to drive to it and thought we took a wrong turn for a while because we couldnt see it, thats how little of an impact it had

[@toxendon]

Read the standing orders. READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!

[@HoldMyBeerBubba]

Don't see how anything he does on his own farm concerns these old busy bodies

[@agalie7139]

He closed the restaurant and the shop too. He will not starve but it's a warning for the others farmers and meanwhile everyone is speaking about local products.

[@ry8539]

so he got planning permission in the end? And then it closed later on?

[@feluto7172]

@@ry8539they rejected the proposal

[@bobosaurus331]

@@ry8539He used another shed, which the council shut down a few weeks later

[@Mansviews]

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

[@iyeetdog4853]

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

[@skar5541]

He needs s haircut for a start and a new frame of mind..

[@TheCrappyRobot]

And look at how the farmers are treated now...

[@RetroEcoChicken]

the applicant owns the land so the council can fuck off somewhere else.

[@thismoodysky]

Ah, i love planning committees

[@PickleThePig]

Councils……only want to line their own coffers

[@DeadheadShark-kp8le]

What a count!

[@Tzhz]

If it helps the people and not anyone in authority, then it won't happen.

[@smellyvalley]

Nailed it

[@albertsaffron7582]

They’re the same in regional Victoria

[@alessandromazzini7026]

And Italians complain about our beaurocracy

[@brentsrx7]

It looks like a Karen convention.

[@peteranserin3708]

This must have been embarrassing for the council to see this video, and the program. yikes. The government needs to decide on zoning and building regs, NOT these self appointed do gooders!

[@93hothead]

This is a dark side of democracy where a “council” gatekeeps everything

[@AngryGooseChieftain]

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

[@Westy0311]

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?

[@nice900]

the issue is because it's an area of outstanding natural beauty which means it's protected, the idea is that someone mega rich can't just buy up the land and do whatever they want with it (the extreme example would be lets say the area was discovered to have some wealth under it like loads of gems/some recourse idk, it then prevents some corporation from just buying the land and tearing up the countryside to extract the wealth), it's sort of similar to the natural parks you have in the US, obviously I think the main difference is that in the US they are owned by the government whereas here Jeremy owns the land but to make changes that affect the landscape he needs permission. I do think they overstep some boundaries though, he's not making drastic change to the landscape all he's doing is modifying a building they already gave him permission to build in the past.

[@bobosaurus331]

Well in the US you’d get shot if someone didn’t like what you were doing

[@brettharrison2237]

You should learn to spell! Brilliant.

[@amazingman63]

Brits talk about "the council" like they live in V for Vendetta already and chancellor Sutler will send them away for building a shed.

[@bp2352]

But an apartment built to house migrants is approved immediately.

[@myrasmyth890]

Jeremy do you supply any farm shops in London?

[@randomcommenter7170]

This is my first time seeing a emoji in a KZbin channels name

[@jayjaypen2]

Posh people attempting to justify their own jobs.

[@ColdWinterz01DMZ]

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

[@ColdWinterz01DMZ]

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

[@EasyGrace]

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

[@cobbler9113]

These people will basically be the core of any future Citizen’s Assembly’s should they ever see the light of day as a concept.

[@magnusaarsland9421]

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.

[@apcook34]

So Hot Fuzz was accurate?

[@getthecats]

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

[@poppity12]

Jeff Haine for crying out loud get a haircut. 😂😂😂😂

[@ding1466]

You need all these people just for a building conversion? What a load of bull.

[@GrayGecko22]

These councils are in the World Economic Forum pockets

[@patrickbateman1660]

Bro you are schizo. Boomers being petty is not a grand world conspiracy.

[@Jabberwockybird]

Why are they still wearing masks, when was this filmed?

[@CMGThePerson]

I 2021/2022 I believe. Probably before the Pandemic was officially over

[@hubertdenise3100]

Now I understand the barrister who was hired by the neighbour/ councillor was dyslexic, fair enough.But there is no reason they can’t get someone to correct their writing and make sure it’s acceptable, most reports and papers have to be reviewed and checked before publishing, it’s a professional job and you need to use this to argue your clients case against, you should have someone spell check it, that’s just basic professionalism.

[@Wolf-1211]

That moment you realise if this was approved, how many farmers around that area would literally be saved… then you really begin to hate these morons who complain and say “BuT iT wOuLd AfFeCt ThE dArK sKiEs ?&£”!&”

[@davidpetermcmorris857]

Did it get approved?

[@alexbur6021]

No not yet.

[@tigervalley62]

@@alexbur6021: Honestly, if I was Clarkson, I would build it regardless considering I have enough F you money on hand to fight back if these bastards try anything funny. I'm not even British, but I hate bureaucrats with a passion.....

[@nathangordon4891]

This entire section shows precisely what’s wrong with the UK

[@no-barkthechosenone2436]

Woohoo for the institute

[@nathangordon4891]

@@no-barkthechosenone2436 mankind, redefined

[@Elcicikos]

This is not only UK problem.

[@smamonkey6798]

Could you imagine buying a farm with your hard earned money and you need permission to build on your own property.

[@kk-po1hj]

yes, it makes complete sense to me, after about 2.3 seconds of critical thought, I can fully understand why planning permissions are important. If you can’t, that’s just a testimony to… well to your capability for critical thought i suppose

[@Elcicikos]

Europe is not the USA. In Europe, if you buy land, you don't actually own it. You need permission for everything. If the government gives you a permit, it can also take it away from you. Sick.

[@HaydenLau.]

You refer to barristers as counsel, not council

[@ukuleletyke]

Yes- but here he’s not in court, where he would be presenting his brief as counsel. He’s making a three-minute representation at a meeting of the planning committee of the District Council- so when they refer to the council, it means the organisation, not the individual.

[@jdpragmatic8644]

And This is why we fought a war, to not have to deal with these councils in their “tall hats and plastic shoes” 🇺🇸

[@ekni4245]

The Vietnam war?

[@jdpragmatic8644]

@@ekni4245think earlier, like around 1776

[@jdpragmatic8644]

@@ekni4245the “tall hats and plastic shoes” is a reference to something Jeremy said about government agencies in Britain during an episode of TopGear. My comment was meant to be satirical reference to TopGear. No need to make this personal or anything.

[@ekni4245]

@@jdpragmatic8644 Retracted, apologies for going off the deep end. ✌️

[@jdpragmatic8644]

@@ekni4245apology accepted

[@Wolf-1211]

Council: “We want farmers to diversify” and “we love how natural the country looks” Farmers who try to diversify so they can actually continue to afford to live and make the country side look so nice…. Council: “HOW F***ING DARE YOU TRY DIVERSIFY!

[@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729]

You should be free to do whatever you want to on private land so long as it doesn't effect anything that isnt your private property or you. Otherwise whats the point in even owning private land?

[@Elcicikos]

Europe is not the USA. In Europe, if you buy land, you don't actually own it. You need permission for everything. If the government gives you a permit, it can also take it away from you. Sick.

[@cuuurlyfries5246]

I’m not even a farmer, but my council isn’t even letting me build my house unless I lose half of my land. At that point, there is nowhere for me to build anyways. Ridiculous EU laws…

[@patrickbateman1660]

Councils need to be abolished. Its always just useless bureaucrats getting paid crazy money to do nothing. Zoning should be set federally.

[@FBFJDKOEUEURJFJDJ]

Hold the L Clarky boyyyyyyyy

[@williamharpster4193]

Wait till all the immigrants get to that town 😂

[@CMGThePerson]

I imagine they'd make for a better council

[@RoderikvanReekum]

Why does everyone wear those stupid face masks, it looks silly!

[@jonathanemery1728]

covid restrictions probably.

[@charlsgti1943]

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

[@Mrtrainlover679]

Actually they got the restaurant appeal Just they can’t use the converted barn they were able to convert to use that the council, unrightly, wound up shutting down, again

[@charlsgti1943]

@@Mrtrainlover679 guess I need to go watch it for a 3rd time to make sure I don't miss any detail 😂

[@vivsha3498]

The amount of dumbassery in the comments is unbelievable. If you watch the show you'll realize the person protesting had a perfectly valid argument. The full incident: Clarkson opens his shop and creates a traffic jam that disrupts the village. That car park he talk about? He ruins the land. It's grassy in the beginning but he doesn't have a plan to accomodate cars. His idiot girlfriend redirects cars onto the grass next to the shop and it creates a mosh pit. The lambing shed argument: The lawyer is right. Clarkson in season 1 states he'll breed sheep. But does it just for TV. He drops it entirely in the second season because it was "too tough". What makes anyone believe he gives a rats ass about farming. He's doing it for TV. The neighbor is arguing that Clarkson's actions have a disruptive pattern. He does things to stir attention, creates a mess and then does nothing to fix it. Also something Clarkson doesn't mention while character assassinating his opponent: He used high grade explosives to blow up his old property without notifying anyone else in the village. How would you like to live next to an asshole who uses dynamite without warning. The viilagers absolutely have a right to a good quality of life. If an actual farmer applied for a permit does anyone really think the people would object? They're objecting the fact that Clarkson's attention whoring will not work in the long run and will ruin more of that land. Love top gear as much as you want but this incident shows how much his head is up his ass. He's an entertainer. Not some British farming saviour. He's twisted this incident on camera and is using it to bully his way forward.

[@ninja-ginger1973]

I never thought of it that way, but I agree with you.

[@simonskinner5374]

So what's Clarkson actually done against these people? Make a traffic jam once?? Of course, we can never take into consideration the fact that a traffic jam is caused by a bunch of people who want to go to the restaurant.

[@MrPear40]

Is that why the BFA gave him an award?

[@vivsha3498]

@@MrPear40 for bringing awareness yes. Doesn't mean he's automatically right about everything in this video clip. Again, the show has more context

[@patrickbateman1660]

Oh no he made traffic! The horror. Traffic is a sign of economic activity. And he is on a farm you can be as loud as you like. Boomers just want dead quiet villages where no one exists

[@nuraqoh6542]

more like the BASED council.

[@HRHooChicken]

It was quite clear the lambing shed was built with the intention of converting it into a restaurant. It was built in a very scenic spot next to the shop and far away from the rest of the farm buildings and away from his house which makes no sense for a lambing shed. I am against pretty much all building work on green fields. No doubt that when this venture fails or clarson dies and no one is interested anymore, that shed will be converted to housing as well as houses on the car park. Imagine if every farmer did this, there would be no countryside left. We need to make farming profitable, not force them to diversify

[@Edawgpilot]

So you’re against barns? The only farms should be just a field and a guy with a shovel?

[@HRHooChicken]

@@Edawgpilot why more barns? We’ve been farming for centuries, it’s not like we’re gaining more land. Rebuild on plots that already have barns on them. No more building

[@Edawgpilot]

@@HRHooChicken what if a giant farm is split into two smaller farms owned by individual owners? They both need barns dumbass

[@Edawgpilot]

@@HRHooChicken also we’ve been traveling for centuries but we still build new roads….we’ve been sailing for centuries but still build new ships…..your logic doesn’t make sense

[@HRHooChicken]

@@Edawgpilot yes it does. I’m against building on the countryside, full stop. That includes roads, new houses, barns, warehouses… restaurants. We need to reduce demand not increase supply. Space is finite and once it’s built on it’s gone forever. I believe in making farming profitable by actually farming, not by forcing farmers to become restauranteurs. Be this through subsidies or import tariffs or cutting some red tape.

[@QUAKACE]

That chairman gives me the exact same vibes as a certain character in HBO's Chernobyl. Ugh

[@Boykot1]

I actually find it weird that people are so calm about things like this.

[@lukasvanderwesthuizen7893]

All of them OLD farts

[@larrygotter5609]

Look at everyone wearing masks. Cringiest thing I've ever seen.

[@getsbuckets]

Farmers are still millionaires...dont give me that crap theyre skint....they wouldmt know what actually being skint means.

[@optimuswarcrimes1178]

Oh no the people that feed us have money! How dare they!