Tired of this! Blatant, persistent, often times dangerous undertaking on the motorway. Can someone tell me exactly what the law is on this? Why so prevalent now? And before claims of outside lane hogging, very often that’s not the case.

When is the countryside marching again? A last chance to save what it is. #CountrysideMarch

I do seriously wonder just how far the goading of the countryside can go. Something has to give, surely? One thing we do lack from a rural perspective is plain speaking leadership. Well, on that: now’s the time!

Now something tears deeper and wider than ever before. A British Government declaring war on its farmers. The desperate but decent countryside deprived of any voice. This will not end well.

“Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing … when I see the right and the ability to do everything granted to any power whatever … I say - It is the seed of tyranny.” Alexis de Tocqueville. @NoFarmsNoFoods @TrooperSnooks @alanvibe @1GarethWynJones @SDPhq @Danjsalt

Cancellation is yet the most effective tool in the woke arsenal. The collateral damage it causes to opponents is hyper-charged in its effects due to the simple fact that cowardly management obsessed by process end up impaling themselves on the alter of perceived righteousness - @TalkTV you are perilously close to that precipice. @Iromg is the best around. Standing firm against the spin and dishonesty that have become the hallmark of our local and national politics. A true and remarkable journalist. A presenter of incredible worth. MSM has failed monumentally in holding Authority to account. Journalism has diminished itself fundamentally in its near wholesale capture, its institutional sell-out, to an obsequious indulgence of progressive Left-leaning values without any hint of scrutiny or question; rot deepens in Public life because few have the courage to look for answers. Since the political carnage of Brexit, the stifling damage of Coronavirus lock-down, the tyrannical tendencies of this current Government, few on the airways have worked so tirelessly in demanding answers from those in control of our lives. Precious few journalists have stuck to the legitimate and necessary task of scrutiny and the dogged interrogation of those in elected Office - Mike Graham is one of a precious few - and for many of us functions as the very best of them. The ideology of the power-obsessed ‘Blob’ dictates that those who can fight against it are humiliated and destroyed; careers ruined, reputations sullied. That such destruction is paraded widely as warning to others who might try to fight back. It takes a rare form of personal and professional courage to meet such a force head on. In @Iromg we have seen that courage again and again. The worth of the man is beyond question. He needs to return, stronger than ever and with the full support of all of us. Not least his colleagues, not least his station. If somehow or another Mike Graham is beaten by this nonsense, then the cost is very clear - one way or another a majority of good and hardworking people in the UK lose out because they lose an important voice that stands up squarely for them and in their interest. Get @Iromg back behind a microphone where he belongs. Doing what he does best - asking questions of those in power and demanding answers from them.

On a 50% turnout - a record for bye-Election to the Welsh Senedd; local voters were well motivated. I agree with what you say on the result, Dan. But a wider perspective more generally: Elections moving toward active coalitions of Left versus anyone from the Right. It is this that will be a defining feature of the next Election. Arguably, too, the progressive Left are better at organising tactical shifts in voting at local level. The Reform Party will take much from the Caerphilly ‘experience’ yesterday, not least that the Left will unite against it as a defined strategy. Its reaction should be to actively form dynamic coalitions of its own. But will egos and hubris get in the way? The salami-slicing of the Right is yet, to my mind, the most likely pit-fall for any chance of reforming salvation for Britain. A message to Reform, then: make your political friends now. Otherwise, I do think, you’re scuppered.

Unless you care about the British countryside that is — then it’s smash baby smash! How can this be stopped?

To borrow for a moment the reflective sentiment of Niemőller: First they came for the farms, and I did not speak out — because I wasn’t a farmer. Then they came for the producers of food, and I did not speak out — because I didn’t produce food. Then they came for the land, and I did not speak out — because I owned no land. In the end they came for the whole of the Countryside — and there was no-one left to save it. This Government has a clear agenda for farming, indeed for rural Britain generally. They’re a bad lot. They work to a plan of ruinous destruction and won’t be dissuaded by anyone. There has to be political traction to resist this. That has to be led by farmers themselves: No one else will stand up to save you.

Farmer and conservationist @GrahamDenny9 a true wildlife champion in every sense. A future government looking to restore conservation value on farmland would do well to include Mr Denny on a specialist advisory board in order to guide things to best advantage. And might I suggest all meetings taking place in the only boardroom that matters — his farm!

Politics is a game of spite. The countryside has traditionally, and predictably, voted Conservative. That simple fact is why the last government got sloppy in their complacency about rural votes. It is why this current government is going all out to smash rural constituencies. You were all warned leading up to GE2024 and yet many of you - far too many - stayed abed anyway.

All part of the grand plan. Working precisely as intended.

And this is why if you are to promote real, substantive, proven and progressive conservation management you begin right here: whatever the habitat, whatever the species, if it involves land, get yourself a good farmer. Well said, @sussexfarming @GrahamDenny9 @1GarethWynJones @stuartpengs @SDPhq

It all steps up a gear now. Immense policy talent. This move is vital to the future of the UK, our people, their communities. Significant and welcome.

Appreciate the retweets to see if we can motivate our government into the real world of wildlife loss ! @Jes_Squirrell @Farmer_Tom_UK @No1FarmerJake @1GarethWynJones @herdyshepherd1 @vickihird @Wyefarm @ClarksonsFarm1 @BC_Suffolk @agricontract @ProagriLtd @CA_TimB @TrooperSnooks

A most telling illustration from Welsh farmer and farming commentator @1GarethWynJones It is essentially very straightforward, though no less devastating for family farms across the UK. You see, the Government is actively targeting land: the countryside is being asset stripped pure and simple. It’s an agreement, a carefully orchestrated plan along with hedge fund capital. The Government introduces policies that destabilise farming and then asset managers move in to buy. Large blocks of land are then put under contract to wind farms, solar parks and carbon off-setting; highly lucrative, subsidised profits under-written by Government. Similarly house building — a Klondike-like greenfield development bonanza at which developers are guaranteed the most fabulous win. With the likes of Blackrock hovering in the wings such planning will have been in place long before the GE2024. It might have taken a little while to join the dots but that’s very much where we are right now. The whole of the countryside is facing a battle to survive both economically and culturally. At the current rate of attrition there will be little left come 2029. A British Government setting out purposely to destroy its traditional agricultural production base whatever the collateral damage in human, environmental and national strategic cost. Truly unbelievable and genuinely frightening.

“The green movement is like a swimming pool. All the noise comes from the shallow end.” From: Climate change delusion and the great electricity rip off Ian Plimer

As nationally critical as home produced food is to the UK, farming is being hit hard by Labour. This Government has proven explicitly that it cares nothing for farming, for farmers, for farming families, nor the countryside as a whole. Appeasement of the Parliamentary Labour Party, already restless and troublesomely emboldened, becomes a matter of pressing managerial priority for Labour. And it is to that end that farming and the countryside now sits even more squarely within Labour’s hard-Left ideological sights. Things are moving quickly now, a sign of how Labour has positioned the demise of the countryside as part of a core agenda. From pre-Election lies, to post-Election stitch up, farming is now in the process of being set up to brutally fail. The politicised anti-farming narrative now shifts toward land. Land is being linked to un-earned wealth. As this Labour Government flounders on, it gears up to come after wealth. For farmers that will mean a spiteful, and increasingly focused, targeting of land. Family farms need help. It is time for alternative politics to step up to this pressing rural challenge. But a message to farmers, also - next time around you must have the courage to choose that which stands to make all the difference. @SDPhq @WilliamClouston @SdpShaun @Mellon6741 @tompfoster @adhib @Jamie_Blackett @1GarethWynJones @GrahamDenny9

As a country, as a nation, we’re in a real mess. In point of fact, the UK is in a genuine state of crisis. All the signs point to things getting much worse, and perhaps dangerously so. Everyone seems to be losing something, doubtful whether things can ever be made to turn around for the better ever again. Change can only happen through the ballot box. You may have a chance in the upcoming Local Elections to at least begin the process of turning things around. That can only happen if you vote. Listen to what the @SDPhq has to say. Look up #SDP manifestos locally and nationally and see just how much sense and understanding there is right there. The change you want to bring about can only happen through voting. Make the effort - think carefully - make that move. In terms of what your vote means this time round, all indication are that it has never been so important. @adhib @SDPThamesValley

This guy @GrahamDenny9 is a genius. Listen to his words. Understand the hard work and commitment he has to farmland-based conservation. The results are real, substantial and evidenced by year- on -year, decade-upon-decade survey and audit. All of it happening in real time under the auspices of sustainable farming. This is what you lose if you continue to smash away at farming @Labour, @SteveReedMP, @Keir_Stammer. The fact that we’re even here having to explain this should tell you very clearly how wrong you are.