The man who took on the aristocracy

[@thefeof6161]

This channel is pure gold. The politics of agriculture with some nice history to back it

[@VanBurenOfficial]

Dismantling feudalism has been a very long project, but in recent times, the kleptocratic class has made great strides. I hope the tide will shift again towards struggling against oligarchs

[@falamble]

Glad the algorithm recommended me this channel. Great video, well researched, well presented. It's fascinating to see the history of land development that shapes our current society. Keep up the good work!

[@Jablicek]

It's very hard to feel sorry for the aristocracy (and some of the landed gentry, historically) when they lived so much off the labour of their workforce and, like today, compensated their workers just enough that they wouldn't leave or die. I'm very much enjoying, if that's the right word, your look at English farming through the ages.

[@nickchambers3935]

Oh no they stripped England of our ruling class! What will this poor country do without our precious ruling class to look after us

[@davidcunningham2074]

excellent. i knew nothing about this.

[@davidlegrice4207]

Fun fact, death duties were so important to the Liberal party at the time that they wrote a song about it called "The Land" which is still sung at Liberal Democrat party conferences to this day.

[@HimWitDaHair98]

Very informative and very pointed humour 😂

[@davidlobaugh4490]

How does this guy not have 100k subs?

[@TreforTreforgan]

Entirely his own fault that. He should change his name by deed pole to Kardashian or some such, start making GRWM videos of him putting his hunter wellies on etc before going out into the cow sh!ts! Actually, how’s about me doing your PR for you from now on, Oli! All I’d want is a dozen eggs a week.

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

I have been really enjoying your video series, but i would be very interested in some more detailed statistics. You put the graph of agricultural land use, but I'd be interested on the effects of government mass mechanising of farming. What were the effects on productivity, did it effect profitability, how did this compare to countries from whom we were importing.

[@farmingexplained]

Many thanks! I'll bear that in mind for the future - there's lots available for the wartime measures that should put things into perspective

[@Frank-bc8gg]

this is an interesting take on the clashes of old and new cultures as societal upheaval upended everything. Personally I feel this is a little to biased towards the scientists of the era, much of whose theories have been thourghly discredjted with modern understanding and have actually done a lot of harm and continue to do so to the environment. There were many abuses but in the era of privatiation it feels like there was simply a transfer of power from aristocrats to private landholding conglomerations, one of which at least stayed within tbe bounds of thier estates and as you mentioned did fight and die for thier country while the other are just faceless investors that sometimes dont even reside in the same country.

[@petermedcalf1191]

Lloyd George was born in Manchester

[@penelopepitstop9073]

The war on farmers is actually much older than I realized. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[@computermaster50]

I'm not sure that is the take away here, it seems more to me as a victory of the farmer over the aristocrats, not the precursor to a modern attack on farmers.

[@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506]

There isn't really a war on farmers. It's just the worldwide small buisness vs big business

[@penelopepitstop9073]

@@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506 I appreciate that perspective, and agree there is a systemic aspect to the agricultural market, esp. in an age of globalization. However, the aggression towards meat and dairy is rooted in (previously) fringe philosophies and worldviews. It is real. It is a problem. And it has been around for a long time.

[@MrLph427]

For many generations now laws are passed, essentially, to garner maximum votes. “Look what we’ve done for you “ could be the quip. In more recent times, to add to the above, there is emanating from the city cultures a collectivist movement I.e “the right to roam” opposing individual land owner rights. Coupled together with other movements/laws/taxes there has been an assault on the countryside, its managers and owners. As the the urban environment (city’s etc) have begun to implode there has been a flight to the countryside and these people are discovering that that countryside is in steep decline.

[@Garwfechan-ry5lk]

He was not a angry little man, he was a angry Giant of a man in Political terms, he could run rings around Churchill and he hated Baldwin . Although a Liberal, he was not like a Liberal today, they were actual Socialists, he spent most of his early life in Manchester, with Family, the hate Welsh Liberals had for English landlords was rabid, which was exactly the same as the Labour views of that time, the Welsh Labour Party came out of the Liberal Party there were little difference of their Politics, Lloyd George was born before his time and he was a real Giant of Politics in Britain, if you are British then you must be a Cymro for we are the British. Lloyd George always knew this. Diolch yn fawr i ti, Prynhawn da. PS Farmers in Wales were certainly of the Liberal tendancy, not the Conservative view, but Landlords forced many to support the Conservatives with great bitterness. Everybody was poor, except the Landed Gentry and the Industrial Barons. The Aristocracy were Bastards to the Brythonic people in Cymru Cyrnwy and Cymbria and Elsewhere that spoke NOT the English Language.

[@bernardedwards8461]

I agree that Lloyd George was superior to Churchill, as he had to manage with few of the advantages Churchill had, but even so made a great success of all his wartime posts.

[@jennijenjenjen]

Your content is bloody excellent mate, I’ve been binging all day; first with coffee, and now with wine! May I ask what your opinion on Georgism is? For those who don’t know it’s basically the removal of most or all taxation and replacing it with a Land Value Tax. It’s essential council tax but it’s only paid on the value of the land instead of the property it sits on. Multiple men of magnitude through history have supported variations of it, despite the lack of knowledge of it today!

[@farmingexplained]

Very glad you like! I'll be honest, had to watch a lil video about Georgism - very interesting idea! I will look into it further for future episodes on economics but I feel in a country that broadly aims for small owner-occupying farmers (which the post-war UK does, theoretically), a land tax mixed with market volatility/ unpredictable weather would bankrupt small farmers very easily and move the country towards oligopoly of land ownership (which is currently happening even without a land tax), or uncontrolled urbanisation as people build stuff to make the land worth the tax. Certainly something to be said for an incentive to keep land serving a purpose though! Thanks for the question :)

[@jennijenjenjen]

@@farmingexplained may i recommend Britmonkey as a good KZbinr who talks enthusiastically about Georgism in two separate videos. I’ll admit I’m in two minds about it because of the countryside. I think I lean more toward Georgism solely as an urban environment law only. Whereas rurally, such a law would be too volatile since the UK has such high value land already. Thank for the reply, I’m looking forward to your future videos.

[@farmingexplained]

@@jennijenjenjen ​ @jennijenjenjen I'll have a look! I agree the country and city have very different economic requirements - George compared the poverty of New York unfavourably to that of California, but if the impoverished homestead in California had to pay a ground tax on their infertile acres they'd surely be more destitute than anyone in the city slums. Thanks for the thoughtful question! Much appreciated

[@quintessenceSL]

@@jennijenjenjen The standard argument is that land in the countryside isn't worth much (as compared to the cities), so wouldn't have a high tax burden. Also the tax burden is stable year after year, with global market fluctuations having little affect on taxes paid. Finally, taxes could be assessed after death of owner-occupancy to average out prime and lean years.

[@mayfieldcourt]

Chum, good vid, well done. But Lymington: its Limb-ington, not Lime-ington.

[@farmingexplained]

Oof, thanks for letting me know! The perils of only reading things

[@gerrystevens9041]

i think ''death duties'' will have to be repealed. crude social engineering.

[@desert_druid_xD]

I havent Been this board about history since fifth grade history class. I'm so sorry, British man.

[@hughzapretti-boyden9187]

Lloyd George the self-serving, womanising narcissist. Modern day Labour would love him!😂

[@hedge68]

And yet ironically it's sounds exactly like a description of one Boris Pfeffel Johnson

[@hughzapretti-boyden9187]

@@hedge68 absolutely! Today the tories & Labour are two cheeks of the same backside!

[@hedge68]

@hughzapretti-boyden9187 glad you see that, I am however puzzled as that if you see the two parties as the same why only single one of them out ?

[@georgeniceguy3934]

me

[@sianwarwick633]

Why is there a street drain on a shelf behind his head. Stop emphatically waving arms around, too distracting

[@freebornjohn2687]

I think his presentation style is very good. You should chill, why shouldn't he have a drain in the background what do you want a white wall?

[@JohnDoe-gc1pm]

Drain - links to drainage which is a farming thing