Here we go again.....

[Henarar]

Just an AR activist, dressed in a Laura Ashley type frock. The woman is a berluddy menace. But on his past form, Johnson will tire of the hassle, and she'll be gone. What's left behind in the CAWF are the Goldsmith brothers, parachuted into Defra and a scattering of ex Defra ministers. All with a different agenda to that of pastoral livestock farming.

ever wondered why we bother

 

[roscoe erf]

Actually Surrey is the most wooded area of the UK - there are loads of trees everywhere mostly protected by Tree Preservation Orders with well heeled local residents prepared to fight developers to the death to save the trees. Neath is the most wooded in Wales I believe. Whenever I go to Wales (love the place) I do feel there a lot of scope to plant more trees on areas that are not necessary for the landscape beauty, moors and hills say, nor impinge on the best farmland. Much better climate for trees than droughty Surrey.


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round here the council has finally started to remove trees as they are a danger planted on what you call not necessary areas they have no depth of root and are constantly falling into and on to roads after the last few major falls one death something is now being done about it

 

[roscoe erf]

Slightly/maybe off topic, but what happened to the old BBC?

When I watched the box, NZ TV was literally just replaying endless BBC stuff and it was great!!

I don't need to go for examples because you'll all know what I mean. Just brilliant media

TV here has changed a lot too, once we got extra channels they filled one of them with crap American sitcoms, but it seems like the Beeb has really lost itself. What happened to it? What did I miss?

it was infiltrated by leftist liberal namby pamby strokers

 

[Kiwi Pete]

it was infiltrated by leftist liberal namby pamby strokers

I thought there must have been a coup of some sort, all this anti- this and anti- that

it used to be the best in the world!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

There are still some gems like “line of duty” but I must admit apart from that and the 6 nations, I’ll hardly watch it.

In my opinion, it’s become a manifestation of our current, dare I say, metropolitan culture. I’ve relations that live in the affluent leafy Surrey suburbs, the sort of area that has community bunting and everyone votes labour (or the occasional Green vote) despite working in very well paid city positions for dubious corporations. It appears all very “nice” everyone’s “lovely” but you can tell they’ve all got their individual agendas, and woe betide anyone who doesn’t conform to the loveliness.

BBC has gone a bit like that, they’ve removed episodes of fawlty towers from their iPlayer in case the Germans are offended, prime time tv is now cake making, makeup and drag queens. What was the go to industry in NZ to be interviewed on tv during your (brief) lockdown? Priority on BBC was hairdressers, every fecking day, and we’ve had hour long programmes on hot topics like “is coronavirus racist?”, Scotland rugby players castigated for not “taking the knee” prior to a game, I’ll bet the studio bound gobshites making the fuss didn’t take a knee prior to starting their shows.

It’s like it’s now infiltrated by the well tended offspring from those leafy suburbs, private school, on to uni, studied sociology or something equally pointless, year out travelling, perhaps a fortnight volunteering in some shitehole somewhere, and that’s the life experience, that appears to me what their programming and agenda centres around now - celebrating loveliness and being overly “nice” and accommodating, this is served up with a deep undercurrent of passive aggression and ignorance towards anything from out-with the village.

Passive-aggressive seems to sum it up.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Just an AR activist, dressed in a Laura Ashley type frock. The woman is a berluddy menace. But on his past form, Johnson will tire of the hassle, and she'll be gone. What's left behind in the CAWF are the Goldsmith brothers, parachuted into Defra and a scattering of ex Defra ministers. All with a different agenda to that of pastoral livestock farming.

Boris may be gone from no. 10 before he tires of her.

 

[Bogweevil]

round here the council has finally started to remove trees as they are a danger planted on what you call not necessary areas they have no depth of root and are constantly falling into and on to roads after the last few major falls one death something is now being done about it

It costs to manage trees correctly and if councils are unwilling and/or their tree officers ineffective then poorly chosen and badly maintained trees will cause problems and waste money.

 

[Bogweevil]

There are still some gems like “line of duty” but I must admit apart from that and the 6 nations, I’ll hardly watch it.

In my opinion, it’s become a manifestation of our current, dare I say, metropolitan culture. I’ve relations that live in the affluent leafy Surrey suburbs, the sort of area that has community bunting and everyone votes labour (or the occasional Green vote) despite working in very well paid city positions for dubious corporations. It appears all very “nice” everyone’s “lovely” but you can tell they’ve all got their individual agendas, and woe betide anyone who doesn’t conform to the loveliness.

BBC has gone a bit like that, they’ve removed episodes of fawlty towers from their iPlayer in case the Germans are offended, prime time tv is now cake making, makeup and drag queens. What was the go to industry in NZ to be interviewed on tv during your (brief) lockdown? Priority on BBC was hairdressers, every fecking day, and we’ve had hour long programmes on hot topics like “is coronavirus racist?”, Scotland rugby players castigated for not “taking the knee” prior to a game, I’ll bet the studio bound gobshites making the fuss didn’t take a knee prior to starting their shows.

It’s like it’s now infiltrated by the well tended offspring from those leafy suburbs, private school, on to uni, studied sociology or something equally pointless, year out travelling, perhaps a fortnight volunteering in some shitehole somewhere, and that’s the life experience, that appears to me what their programming and agenda centres around now - celebrating loveliness and being overly “nice” and accommodating, this is served up with a deep undercurrent of passive aggression and ignorance towards anything from out-with the village.

I have yet to see an affluent home counties constituency that does not return the blue rosette...inner city yes, but commuter belt I think not.

 

[Bogweevil]

It's already starting to happen in Wales but the problem is it is being lead by the Civil service and a bigger bunch of unemployable over educated gob shites you will never meat. The problem is they don't know anything apart from what they want as a outcome, so they ask single issue groups or universities. They never ask people who know. The other issue is the Civil service thinks being highly educated and being intelligent are the same thing, to the point where I found my self trying to explain why you can't plough across a hill it was literally trying to tell a very highly educated man who runs the whole environment department under Leslie Griffiths how gravity works. This is the level of moron we have running the country in Wales.

What is the remedy?

 

[Courier]

Maybe Carrie Antoinette will bring Lulu Lytle in to cost this up and provide a basis for payments to the farmers....

 

[stevedave]

What is the remedy?

Unfortunately it's a very hard problem to solve. While most people think we have too many civil servants ( which we do) it is the knowledge, competence and arrogance of these people that is the problem. Some of the political parties want to cut numbers but it is who you get rid of not how many. Labour on the other hand don't even think there is a problem.