Anyone else watching clarkson farm season 2? I’m binge watching it!

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Don’t read if you are watching one episode at a time. I’m binge watching and loving it. The bloody councillors should be struck off the way they are treating him and through him the other local farmers.

My experience of this is pretty much the NIMBYs control the council. The NIMBYs don't like any change.

They say they want local housing for their children. Then oppose all forms of housing as spoiling the local area / too much traffic / houses the wrong type / in the wrong field.

They are all on their own personal pet projects and have little dictator complexs and act the Big I Am Locally. But don't actually manage to do anything useful.

Then they bully any one with any get up and go out from local politics / business / planning.

Cos they are Grade A Fuck Wits.

Nail on head.

It's always the same type of person, and it almost always has the same outcome - it goes to appeal and wins anyway.
DH has been to various public meetings to try and listen to communities and see what they can bring to them that helps. They never listen, they never participate. They shout, stamp their feet, abuse him and in some cases vandalise the staff cars and intimidate the people who've come to talk to them. Clearly he's got the patience of a saint because I'd have seriously told them all to FOTTFSOF long ago.

I think a lot of posters don’t live in the country. Anything that increases traffic x 100 on narrow country roads is a pita. The verges get churned up and the roads are layered in mud - let alone taking 5times as long to get anywhere -if someone E was developing land next to JC’s naice residence there’d be hell to pay.

Not normally a JC fan but this series has been very interesting and informative by shining a light in the struggles farmers face particularly since Brexit. I think we all need reminding where our food comes from and exactly what is involved in producing the food we need.

I already knew Uk farmers would be up shitscreek after Brexit. Don't need a wanker right JC to tell me that.
Why wasn't he telling all the idiots that did vote for Brexit that this would happen before the vote? That would have made more sense no?

You have nailed it. 100 percent agree. Tokenistic and opportunistic.

Also, keep in mind that Chadlington already has a really excellent farm shop and butchers that already sells local produce. It's 5 mins down the road from JC farm shop.

Fuck him
I won't watch anything that racist, sexist dickhead is on.

Apparently the most popular programme on Amazon prime atm. Beating rings of power ( at probably a tiny fraction of the cost).

@Ginflinger but how many people bought at those shops before Clarkson's farm. From what I've been told they are now earning more too as people pop in after going to Diddly Squat. And he's hardly building a multi storey car park - it's a v small shop and restaurant, to try and earn money to keep the farm and keep it an AOB.
Not sure why JC is supposed to be using his time advocating for all fathers all the time - it seems to me that running the farm and doing his day job probably take up quite a lot of his time.
He has highlighted farmers plights better than anyone else. We are all talking about it after all. Surely that's a good thing. Whatever you think of him.

When has he been racist? I'm not disputing it, I genuinely don't know.

I found lots of articles when I googled
time.com/3740238/top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/

This.

Charlie has the patience of a saint.

I love Charlie. He did everything by the book in the previous series, but he went slightly rogue this series when he realised that they were never going to be treated fairly by the local council and threw himself into exploiting loopholes.

Hopefully they will be able to get the restaurant up and running again. It's going to appeal anyway.

Just finished watching. Loved it just as much as the first season.

I grew up on a farm so know all too well the struggles farmers have faced for years now. It’s refreshing for the vast majority of the population to now be aware of these struggles.

I don’t live in an AONB but the NIMBYs in the council are a problem everywhere in the countryside, it’s so depressing. People move out to the country from the city, and expect the countryside to stop for them.

They complain about the smell of slurry. They complain about the noise of machinery and animals. They complain about their cars getting dirty. They complain about tractors driving slowly on the roads which are narrow. They trespass through your fields, often with livestock in, with their huge, untrained dogs running amok. At best, it’s a nuisance. At worst, you’ll be walking into a field full of dead stock. If people get hurt on your land, they’ll try to sue you.

It’s so miserable.

I have no issue with folk moving to the countryside. I myself am desperate to move back. But you have to embrace the farming culture there.

I get it. It’s not ideal when you’re running late for work and you’re stuck behind a tractor for 10 miles. It’s annoying when you’ve put fresh laundry out, down wind, and then someone spreads slurry and you have to rewash it again.

But farmers need to be able to farm, and be profitable. We should be encouraging ideas like Clarkson’s. Because the only other truly profitable way to farm nowadays is intensively and that’s something I absolutely do not want to see.

Let’s encourage locally grown food, grown with the animals’ welfare in mind that supports local people and keeps alive traditional farming methods before it’s too late.

I wasn’t going to watch this because although I enjoyed series one, I was horrified by his comments about MM. I can’t stand her, but there’s no excuse that for that sort of comment.
I have started watching series 2 . It’s an interesting watch, but I find his stance in using nitrates on his fields and cavalier attitude about murdering badgers off putting.

It’s also all very well taking about lovely cows and their sweet calves , but they are destined for the slaughterhouse or the cruel dairy industry. There is so much cruelty in farming and abuse of animals. Cows are kept constantly pregnant to produce milk and their calves are taken away far too young. Keeping a cow in a cage whilst it is artificially inseminated or basically forcibly mated for profit is nauseating.

This has got to be one of the best Mother’s Day cards I’ve seen

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i have just finished it. I really enjoy watching it. It’s been sad, entertaining, emotional and most importantly educational. I also think season 2 has shown the council planners as petty, as well as clarksons arch nemesis neighbour.

As much as it pains me to say it, I do think Clarkson cares about what he is doing. He wants the farm to be a success with the co-operative farmers too.

I think a lot of people confuse Clarkson the public persona with Clarkson the man.

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That's a great interview. You can see the respect the two have for each other and what an excellent relationship they have.

So disappointing for the other local farmers who really needed to join the cooperative with JC to supply their produce.This programme should be shown on the BBC instead of countryfile DH has just said.Whaever you think of JC this tells you more about farming than anything else .I think for all his bluster he really cares about his team,other farmers and his animals.