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.....and the countryside?
I am not sure that they are. Much as the BBC tries to interest people and raise awareness of rural affairs, I think most people in town have more to do than concern themselves with farming and the environment. Not one of my urban aquaintances has heard of G Monbiot or really gives a damn about neonics. The only time they will start asking questions is when the food runs out in the shops.
I think this whole idea that we need to provide "public goods" by greening and providing more access is overblown. The public aren't asking for such things. It's only Mr Gove, the BBC and the Guardianistas that think the public should be interested but really they couldn't care less, and there is nothing wrong with that, just as I'm not concerned about urban life, at all.
As a rural dweller and worker, I don't concern myself with how environmentally friendly or green the industrial estates are, I don't want open access to them, and don't feel entitled to tell them how to run their businesses. So why do a minority of the urban elite think the public should have any say or interest in rural business? It's a kind of elitist thing, I think. We are considered as peasants that can't be trusted and need bringing in to line to conform to the urban elites mistaken view of how we should run the job.
I find it arrogant and patronising.
I am not sure that they are. Much as the BBC tries to interest people and raise awareness of rural affairs, I think most people in town have more to do than concern themselves with farming and the environment. Not one of my urban aquaintances has heard of G Monbiot or really gives a damn about neonics. The only time they will start asking questions is when the food runs out in the shops.
I think this whole idea that we need to provide "public goods" by greening and providing more access is overblown. The public aren't asking for such things. It's only Mr Gove, the BBC and the Guardianistas that think the public should be interested but really they couldn't care less, and there is nothing wrong with that, just as I'm not concerned about urban life, at all.
As a rural dweller and worker, I don't concern myself with how environmentally friendly or green the industrial estates are, I don't want open access to them, and don't feel entitled to tell them how to run their businesses. So why do a minority of the urban elite think the public should have any say or interest in rural business? It's a kind of elitist thing, I think. We are considered as peasants that can't be trusted and need bringing in to line to conform to the urban elites mistaken view of how we should run the job.
I find it arrogant and patronising.