20 years ago I lived in a property in Cornwall that had grazing rights for 2 cattle and 5 sheep on Cubert Common. The national Trust now manages the common but the right remains.
Glad you are on the mend and your sap is now rising!! I think the biggest issue with Right to Roam is the misunderstanding of their goals. "I am ready to admit we need more footpaths around land". Your goals align with theirs to a significant percentage. This should very much be in a series we should make "Tom and Paul get philosophical".
Yes, let’s do it. Do you have any other subjects that interest you: arming for war v appeasement? Palestine v Israel? Can an orange manbaby do good? Should the National Trust decolonise or stop scaring pensioners with wokery?
I've been involved in various co-operatives, mutual aid and 'Kropotkinesque' activities for the past 50 years and maintain that along with 'rights' come 'responsibilities'. When people claim 'rights', such as the use of land we need to ask about their reponsibility for managing the land. Presently we are surrounded by individualism and responsibilities are not accepted.
Yet the land is ploughed and a subsequent yield is distributed. Farmers are heavily regulated right down to when they can trim their hedges and how much fertiliser to use which is a brake on individualism. Thanks to a Labour government land wont be invested in solely to avoid paying tax. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid is an enjoyable read and reinforces the idea of rights and obligations at the commune level but is oblivious to the larger picture of state violence as exemplified by William the Conqueror.
Love your videos but hard disagree with your views on access. Compared to every nation I've spent significant time in, our country is badly out of touch with our land. I believe its been manufactured through centuries of the type of disenfranchisement from the land that you just talked about! Through this detachment we feel little loss when we hear that we're one of the most nature depleted countries on the planet, because most of us never had that nature to begin with. We need desperately, as a country, to reframe our connection with OUR land, and part of that is giving people a sense of ownership and participation. That begins with, amongst other things, open, responsible, access. All this 'it's not your land, you don't care' stuff is silly and unedifying. Of course we care. I care deeply when I look around at the monoculture land that the farmers, through no real fault of their own, have created. I don't blame them, I grew up in the countryside and understand the pressures, but looking at the statistics about the state of nature on this isle, it's obvious that the stewardship role has been not adequately fulfilled and they need assistance.
There is something so solid in the English countryside. It just feels right, comforting almost. It gives you a warm sense of participation.
20 years ago I lived in a property in Cornwall that had grazing rights for 2 cattle and 5 sheep on Cubert Common. The national Trust now manages the common but the right remains.
Glad you are on the mend and your sap is now rising!! I think the biggest issue with Right to Roam is the misunderstanding of their goals. "I am ready to admit we need more footpaths around land". Your goals align with theirs to a significant percentage. This should very much be in a series we should make "Tom and Paul get philosophical".
Yes, let’s do it. Do you have any other subjects that interest you: arming for war v appeasement? Palestine v Israel? Can an orange manbaby do good? Should the National Trust decolonise or stop scaring pensioners with wokery?
@AllotmentFox haha... I know little of most of those, but all would fit on "The Whitewick Mixtape".
I am reminded of the line from Crocodile Dundee that arguing over ownership of the land is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog
As funny as that is, a pithy line is not necessarily a good basis for good government policy. Wasn’t that somethung to do with race relations as well?
I've been involved in various co-operatives, mutual aid and 'Kropotkinesque' activities for the past 50 years and maintain that along with 'rights' come 'responsibilities'. When people claim 'rights', such as the use of land we need to ask about their reponsibility for managing the land. Presently we are surrounded by individualism and responsibilities are not accepted.
Yet the land is ploughed and a subsequent yield is distributed. Farmers are heavily regulated right down to when they can trim their hedges and how much fertiliser to use which is a brake on individualism. Thanks to a Labour government land wont be invested in solely to avoid paying tax. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid is an enjoyable read and reinforces the idea of rights and obligations at the commune level but is oblivious to the larger picture of state violence as exemplified by William the Conqueror.
Love your videos but hard disagree with your views on access. Compared to every nation I've spent significant time in, our country is badly out of touch with our land. I believe its been manufactured through centuries of the type of disenfranchisement from the land that you just talked about! Through this detachment we feel little loss when we hear that we're one of the most nature depleted countries on the planet, because most of us never had that nature to begin with. We need desperately, as a country, to reframe our connection with OUR land, and part of that is giving people a sense of ownership and participation. That begins with, amongst other things, open, responsible, access.
All this 'it's not your land, you don't care' stuff is silly and unedifying. Of course we care. I care deeply when I look around at the monoculture land that the farmers, through no real fault of their own, have created. I don't blame them, I grew up in the countryside and understand the pressures, but looking at the statistics about the state of nature on this isle, it's obvious that the stewardship role has been not adequately fulfilled and they need assistance.