Outpourings from Ben Goldsmith recently

[JP1]

Too many deer in East Anglia justifies re-introduction of lynx and wolves ..........

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767465570423779654

BBC report on floods on Somerset Levels that may make farming impossible amplified by Goldsmith to become as iconic as the Camargue in France :

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767091667448824166

Wolves thriving across Western Europe, time to bring them back to UK

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1766900251414217074

Tim Farron speaking nonsense about tenant farmers being driven off by Landlords going for the Landscape Recovery Scheme (Goldmsith says Farron's lying as tenants are well protected), plenty including George Dunn TFA pile in and say he's wrong and he should apologise to Tim

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765994978314985844

And so it goes on. These just in the last few weeks

 

[JP1]

Don't persecute moles

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765687787603230747

Vilifies all pig farmers

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765451011223638063

Wild boar should not be culled

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765283331942334646

Lots of WWF, CIWF and Packham re-tweets

Sheep dip poisons water supplies (more anti sheep propaganda) also lots of anti hill sheep farming retweets

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1763853575707398590

 

[Macsky]

Ben is pushing the anti farmer agenda full time, making a real effort to stir up hatred towards farmers in the process, he’s a real bad stick.

 

[Scholsey]

Just normal super rich people activities, make money until you have that much you don’t know what to spend it on then stop other people making money instead.

Not a very nice thing to say but makes you wonder if his daughter dying in a quad bike accident on their farm has perhaps tarnished his view on farming…..

 

[Hilly]

Hes a comedian aint he

 

[Swarfmonkey]

He's a [censored].

If it wasn't for daddies money he'd be working in a McDonald's

 

[David.]

On the bright side. the introduction of wolves would do wonders for the birdies, by removing one of their key predators.

 

[ollie989898]

He is a complete moron and basically heartily disliked by everyone around him. Clearly living in a complete fantasy. Wolves FFS. No prizes for guessing what animals those would go for first, it won't be deer and the bloke needs re-educating because the levels have been farmed successfully for hundreds of years- in summer it would have been one of the few places you could graze cattle any sense.

 

[Hilly]

He's a [censored].

If it wasn't for daddies money he'd be working in a McDonald's

Do you think so ? I dont think he would be employable . Benefits brigade more like the thing .

 

[DrWazzock]

A few days at harvest up and down the combine steps pulling barrow loads of mole hill soil and stones off the combine bed in a laid crop of barley might change his mind about moles.
You have to wonder what kind of mess we’d end up in with these blokes in charge? We don’t trap every mole but there’s a limit to how many we can tolerate before they have a serious effect on mowing and harvesting never mind crop thinning prior to that.
As for wolves and lynx, what planet is he on?

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Do you think so ? I dont think he would be employable . Benefits brigade more like the thing .

Good point. In retrospect I think operating the coffee machine or assembling a Big Mac might be beyond him.

 

[ollie989898]

Classic example of a bloke with a large garden who thinks he knows it all. I'd rank him as being even more uninformed than George Monbiot which is a lofty aspiration indeed. I mean sheep dip in drinking water, FFS.

 

[SilliamWhale]

There is a real sense of bitterness about him towards farming but no real desire to see both sides of the coin.

He's not a real conservationist or anything practical hes another one of those desk based environmentalists, but has not so much a silver spoon in his mouth, but the whole Canteen rammed up his orifice.

I think he lacks the depth and thoughtfulness of good quality conservationists (which do exist) which I've communicated with and just tends to communicate in tropes. His main selling point appears to be that his dad was very rich

 

[Spencer]

Didn’t Kevin Wilson write a song about him?

 

[slackjawedyokel]

I don’t see that the output of Mr Goldsmith is so far away from something like racism. Presenting a highly distorted picture of the activities of a minority and allowing the readers to draw their own (directed) conclusions.

It should be some category of hate-crime.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Classic example of a bloke with a large garden who thinks he knows it all. I'd rank him as being even more uninformed than George Monbiot which is a lofty aspiration indeed. I mean sheep dip in drinking water, FFS.

Monbiot does have moments of extremely good writing and some really good points. He's shot his bolt lately with Regenesis which was ultimately silly, unworkable and plain wrong but before that he wrote some good stuff. He does have a certain audience he needs to please every week and the algorithm to please though

 

[J 1177]

Hes a pr*ck

 

[Bury the Trash]

I don’t see that the output of Mr Goldsmith is so far away from something like racism. Presenting a highly distorted picture of the activities of a minority and allowing the readers to draw their own (directed) conclusions.

It should be some category of hate-crime.

a form of ethnic cleansing ?

 

[JP1]

a form of ethnic cleansing ?

This is how Anton Coaker sees much of this - and it's serious

 

[Macsky]

Just normal super rich people activities, make money until you have that much you don’t know what to spend it on then stop other people making money instead.

Not a very nice thing to say but makes you wonder if his daughter dying in a quad bike accident on their farm has perhaps tarnished his view on farming…..

Super rich people that don’t want more money/land/control don’t exist. This is very much a calculated attack from Ben