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Thalia Martin's avatar

Rupert Lowe's constituency is in Norfolk, but his farm is in Gloucestershire. This is according to Wikipedia.

Ben Rubin's avatar

Noted, thank you 🙏🏼

Baldmichael's avatar

Thanks Ben. I see that 'Orla Minihane' will anagram to 'heroin animal' which may be a concern. :<)

On a serious note though on rewilding, it is worth looking up about the project undertaken at the Knepp Estate in West Sussex where I am from. It was struggling due to high inputs of chemicals, machinery etc to extract crops from the soil and reverted to a less intensive approach.

The soil was being degraded as been happening for decades, especially since WW2 but now they can make money I believe. We have been programmed to have cheap food but at a cost to the land ultimately our health.

Ben Rubin's avatar

Heroin animal 😝

Thanks I will take a look.

Nice to hear from you.

Baldmichael's avatar

Re Knepp Estate, here's the link I should have added.

https://knepp.co.uk/knepp-estate/

I did meet a lady in Shipley, the nearby village who wasn't too happy about the rewilding, although I didn't gather the details. She sold lamb and her business might have been affected.

Ultimately many of us have lost touch with the land, the soil, so rewilding might seem like bad news to people but it is not all as it is sometimes portrayed.

What concerns me more is the insane building of homes, especially all the estates that they started building in lockdowns (a good excuse) with no thought for the good agricultural land they are building on, let alone the flooding issues caused.

Dee's avatar

Isobel Bird from Knepp wrote a lovely book about the success of rewinding and it captured the hearts of the nation, including mine. Improved soil structure and animals allowed to graze how they would naturally, nature recovers after years of intensive farming. What’s not to like?

Extremely expensive meat (effectively game) coupled with expensive tourist accommodation for the bourgeoisie to enjoy the whole transformation helps income and the PR machine.

Everything seemed too good to be true, which it is. Rewilding is a greenwash corporates buying up farmland where there is little or no soil management, a few solar panels maybe a wind farm section too and hardly any food produced, certainly not affordable food. Family farms are being bought up and rewilded to offset carbon footprint of large multinationals.

Couple this with our government choosing tax reform which pushes real farmers to have to sell up, questionable bird flu and foot and mouth management. It’s a perfect storm for real farmers. When they are gone, who is going to grow our food. How are we going to survive?

Regenerative farming is the way forward for our food supply, imo, not rewilding.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AeoaJvBPVJQ

Baldmichael's avatar

Thanks Dee.

The whole issue of farming in the UK is a can of worms, or at least it would be if they weren't all killed by pharmaceutical farming!

Rewilding is an emotive term and in the case of Knepp estate it has been more a case of regenerative farming. Different soil types need different farming methods and will grow different things well.

I have long understood the need to view the soil as related to our health and indeed our gut and the soil work in similar ways, with an interaction of fungi and bacteria to help process nutrients to enable their take up into the body/earth.

This current government but also others are very urban biased with no feeling for the soil. After all, earth is an anagram of heart and if we don’t have a heart for the soil we suffer for it.

We have been underselling ourselves in the UK by buying cheap food grown without regard for its nutritional content, and spending our money on other stuff which does us no good.

The move to plaster the land with windmills and solar panels is plain insanity as we do need to produce more good quality home grown food. It must be appreciated that bulk is not the same as volume, so we can eat less but better quality without it being very expensive.

But we have long been unable to produce enough food for domestic consumption so the immigration issues of increasing population are just one more headache, to put it mildly.

Of course the carbon offsetting is just one more financial scam at our expense.

As to bird ‘flu and foot and mouth these are in essence scams of the virologists’ cult, designed to harm the farmers and consumers whilst profiting big pharma. It is a despicable industry, with its uncivil serpent cronies who reinforce the lies.

Our land, our bodies and those of the animals etc. have been poisoned by big pharma and it must stop if we are to live well.

Andy Boddington's avatar

Hi Ben. If you haven't seen Sonia Poulton interviewing Ben Habib from Monday morning, it's well relevant and interesting stuff. He was on at one hour in to the video on YouTube.

Ben Rubin's avatar

Thank you Andy I will watch that now

Steve M's avatar

It's a known ploy to get in first and mislead from the front, it's often the last place we look.

Nick's avatar

Rupwer Lowe is as anti-WEF type as you can get. This seems antithetical to his plan.

Ben Rubin's avatar

well if that's the case, he's not doing a very good job of it

Welkyn's avatar

He also claims to be against net zero while having his fingers in "Bright Green" tech. Rupert Lowe is a politician, which means he needs to follow the golden rule: lie until he's in power, lie when he's in power, lie when he's out of power.

The fact that he wants to climb in bed with Trump, another loudmouth with a history of failed promises, says all you need to know. This is factionalism within the "deep state," not a real alternative.

Nick's avatar

Trump has been a success so far, overall at least. Lowe is the closest thing we in politics to a genuine person. So if you paint Lowe with that brush, you wont be voting for anyone. Perfection is the enemy of the good. And I agree that Lowe may not be perfect, and he supports some policies that I disagree with, however, overall he is by far the most real candidate. Reform are not serious in their mass deportation plans, as they have said repeatedly, which is a worry. So if Lowe is catching heat for his supposed WEF support then i'm sure you'll be disgusted by reform, and all the other parties? As they are far more the WEF puppets, and environmental extremists.

Ben Rubin's avatar

Trump 2.0 has been one of the most destructive leaders in human history. On his first day in office he announced Project Stargate, essentially building the control infrastructure for global governance https://riseuk.substack.com/p/operation-stargate-the-real-invasion

Nick's avatar

as the UK is right now, i wouldn't put a US invasion as a bad thing at all. Starmer is far more destructive, dangerous and corrupt than Trump. And AI infrastructure is a whole other discussion.

Welkyn's avatar

Trump's "success" includes initiatives like Palantir and PRISM, intended to electronically spy on you (and anyone else) in the event of any kind of government perpetuating itself (whether it's red or blue).

Once surveillance infrastructure is in place, Trump gets fucked off in favour of the next "Super Dem" (your classic left-right swing, how the "deep state" perpetuates itself). "AI-assisted" surveillance technologies will be used to oppress anyone protesting fresh waves of foreigners being unleashed in the States (and the EU and UK presumably). This will include you. The platform you are brow-beaten into supporting is diametrically opposed to your privacy and freedom.

Trump is Goldman-Sachs's friend, not yours. If you ever need more evidence that Trumpism is Swampism, just look at the Thiel connections (big name Democrat donors among some even more questionable types).

Oliver Wells's avatar

So most of your broadcast was totally incorrect as your due diligence was lacking. He lives in a different county.

Ben Rubin's avatar

Most of the broadcast had nothing to do with the location of his farm. And the plot continues to thicken https://riseuk.substack.com/p/rupert-lowe-kings-man You got a little nod for the correction, thanks so much for that - must keep us on track ;)