CountryFile last week

Noisy minority social media dickheads doing what they do best. Doesn’t make it better, but that’s what it is.

Of course emboldened by those pulling the levers of power. Which really does need sorting.

Didn't they trace all the anti-vax cr@p back to 10 Twitter accounts?

Vocal opinionated minority.

I'd seen ranting about countryfile "going woke" and being all lefty but didn't get what they were referring to, so I just referred it under "people being ****s" like I do with everyone else that says woke. Turns out, I was right

It's weird, isn't it? 'Why can't they assimilate and be like us in OUR country', yet when Brown people do give that a go, people still aren't happy. 'OMG Brown people in the countryside; I seem to see the river Calder foaming with much blood!'

Meanwhile, that vile **** Farage went unchallenged by Sarah Montague on BBC's World at One programme, spewing bile about 'floods' of Albanians coming here etc. It isn't so much the ignorant racist idiots on social media, it's the amount of airtime the far right is being given, that should really concern us. And the fact we have a despicable criminal tory government who think it's ok to fan the flames further.

countryfile “going woke”

Jesus Harold TF Christ, is this really what we've come to?

Are people pining for the days when Alan Titchmarch used to plant begonias wearing full SS uniform? Remembering the halcyon days when Charlie Dimmock refused to plant white onions next to brown ones? Mourning the fact that we can't shoot illegal immigrant swans out of the sky any more?

Good grief.

I seem to see the river Calder foaming with much blood!’

I live within "totally haven't bought a house on a flood plain" distance of the Calder, I'm reasonably sure that what they can see there isn't blood. The Calder's one saving claim to fame is that it's likely cleaner than the Ribble, affectionally known locally as "The River Stink."

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It is really shitty, but I reckon ALL people that appear on the telly also get a fair amount of abuse online from arseholes who have nothing better to do. Anonymity allows for some folk to behave without any meaningful consequences in the real world.

I think if you belong to a minority group, you're perhaps a little more likely to be the target for such abuse though...

They were accused of "getting in the way of proper ramblers" for God's sake.

Jesus Harold TF Christ, is this really what we’ve come to?

We've not come to anything. The a grade Muppets always existed, it's just that you'd have to go to the right places to hear their nonsense before, but now it's littered all over the bottom half of the internet

As an alternative view CF seems to focus more on worthy causes and less on the countryside these days, nothing wrong with that but it's not what it was, more aimed at non country people than was. Seems the social agenda is now front and centre with a countryside flavour rather than the other way around.

Can't you Facebookers put nice comments next to the bad ones?

Perhaps they are planning to build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land?

Sounds terribly British.

“getting in the way of proper ramblers”

Ah, yes, because of one particular incident, the whole countryside belongs to them.

As an alternative view CF seems to focus more on worthy causes and less on the countryside these days, nothing wrong with that but it’s not what it was, more aimed at non country people than was. Seems the social agenda is now front and centre with a countryside flavour rather than the other way around.

I watch CF every week, and as far as I’m aware, there are massive social issues that those who live in rural areas suffer, lack of public transport, few schools within reach of villages, requiring parents to have to drive kids to schools that are miles away, few local shops, few, if any doctors and dentists surgeries. Of course it’s aimed at townies who seem to have some rosy idea about how wonderful it is to live in the countryside, when you’re loaded. Not so much when you ain’t! For someone like a friend of mine who has a hotel/restaurant and tearoom, she’s been at the end of her tether trying to keep her business going, she’s found it impossible to get staff, after the young European and Japanese staff she normally has were prevented from coming here, and British youngsters just either weren’t interested, or were hopelessly inadequate when dealing with visitors and helping with food preparation. Access is only by car, the nearest bus stop is at least a mile away, along a road that is, from personal experience, bloody dangerous to walk along even in broad daylight! As someone who’s family are from around that area, going back over 350 years, there’s no way I would want to live out in the countryside now, not without a shit load of money available.

We’ve not come to anything. The a grade Muppets always existed, it’s just that you’d have to go to the right places to hear their nonsense before, but now it’s littered all over the bottom half of the internet

A very good point.

there are massive social issues that those who live in rural areas suffer, lack of public transport, few schools within reach of villages, requiring parents to have to drive kids to schools that are miles away, few local shops, few, if any doctors and dentists surgeries

Well, isn't that "the countryside"?

If you choose to live miles away from **** all, you can't really complain when **** all is miles away. If you want reliable public transport, schools within stomping distance, local shops, doctors, dentists, etc etc, then what you're looking for there is what's called "a town." Towns often also come with pizza delivery, supermarkets, mobile phone signal and decent broadband.

The idea of living out in the country is glorious. Rolling greenery, the odd sheep wandering past for a quick 'baa' of a morning. With the nearest neighbours several miles away I'd have an AV system that'd register on seismographs. The practicality however may be somewhat different.

I live in a mid-terrace. My view is the building across the street (and a dirty great tree). I'm plagued by boy racers dump-valving up the road at 3am. The pub round the corner has karaoke nights. The chippie next door but three attracts parking mayhem from self-entitled pricks who think "I'll only be a minute" allows then to dump a Range Rover half a metre from the kerb on double yellows. But, I've just run out of milk and want a brew so I'm going to walk down to Tesco, I'll be back in ten minutes. I'm Xboxing with a mate later tonight, the game is a 30GB download, it'll be done by the time I've made my brew.

It's always a trade-off.