Should the countryside be run by the people who live in the countryside?

Question

I think its unfair that an idiot in some big city is able to set the rules for people that he/she has no understanding of , or any respect for.

Answer 1

Of course it should. I live in a small town that is close to some lovely countryside, and I will sometimes bike out to a country pub. People come in to the hostelry with freshly killed duck, pheasants etc, and I am lucky enough to be able to buy them (as a Chef, I know how to pluck and gut game). Now and again, I get a nice bit of venison.

City life is streets away from the countryside. Country people see their meat in its rawest state, not hygienically packaged in clingfilm on a supermarket shelf. They see, and know mud and manure. They hear the cockerel crow and sleep through it. They also see their crops wither and die because some bureaucrat has banned certain pesticides. Wireworm damage to potatoes, for example, has mushroomed since Bromophos was banned, as any allotment owner will tell you.

Yes, some countryside people will wish to hunt. Country folk have a much closer relationship with nature than do townies, and also an uncanny sense of environmental balance that is absent from the city folk. Although some elements of the hunt have become ritualised, other aspects are deeply atavistic (e.g. blooding) and are important social landmarks and occasions in a lifestyle that corresponds to reality, rather than to soap-operas.

City people experience a sanitised life in which physical and emotional currency is measured solely in money. Country people experience the raw material of existence. If the price for this realism is the odd fox, it should be remembered that the price for Urban existence is hamburger chains and turkey twizzlers. Take your pick.

Answer 2

Yeah because citydwellers love living in stinky horrible polluted cities. Not.

Actually most people only live in cities because they can't afford idyllic little cottages in the country and most "citydwelling idiots" do have great respect for the country.

As far as things like foxhunting go thats just outdated, barbaric and pointless and most people who want that outlawed feel its about time it was! Got nothing to do with where they live.

I live in a small rural Welsh village but I abhor foxhunting and the idiots who indulge in it. Why can't they just go horse riding?!? I love riding but not torturing animals. If I set a pack of dogs on a cat and let them tear it to pieces I'd be arrested for animal cruelty so how do foxhunters get away with it??!

As for countrydwellers who work in the city well if you can find a job round here you're very lucky. There are no jobs in the country other than poorly paid farm work which is why they have to commute.

Answer 3

Not by people who support fox hunting. I hate all this "support fox hunting, support the countryside" as I think you'll find its not every countryside resident that believes in hunting.
I live in a tiny village in suffolk and I dont know anyone who supports the barbaric sport.

If you want to hunt, then hunt scent trails. Face facts that fox hunting is illegal and should stay that way.

Answer 4

I agree. Going back in time, when I was growing up in the Lake District after World War II, there were many, verbally adept people who had bought houses in the region to escape the bombing and suddenly thought they could tell the local people how to pluck pheasants. My parents were also 'off-comers', from Liverpool. My father, a village priest, quickly got himself involved in local politics and fought tooth and nail, in true Liverpudlian style, against those people who had no concept of rural life, but still thought that they could take over and 'save the poor peasants'!

Answer 5

I would agree wholeheartedly if it wasn't for the fact that most people who live in the countryside are townies,that's where they originate from and that's where they go to earn their money.They use the countryside as a dormitory,they hate the smells, noise and sights of the countryside.These are the very idiots that you refer to in your question.

Answer 6

sounds like the above answers are from city folk. I understand your question and it is very frustrating for rural residents who have been here for generations and these city dwellers decide to come out and by an acre in the country and complain about our farming practices (spraying fields and spreading manure, tractors and ombines on the roads, etc.). But all the big politicians with all the money are always from cities and yes they do try to tell us what to do when they move out to our area. All we can do is try to educate them, but that usually doesnt happen

Answer 7

Yes!!

I live in a small village in northamptonshire, about 9 miles from northampton and northampton council control my village, which is totally rural, has no shop, no pub, no bus service. They have no idea what we need in the village yet we pay an extortionate amount of council tax, all of which its spent on the city and none on the village!!!

Answer 8

Absolutely. All local Government are interested in is how much money they can squeeze out of anything, including the countryside, to line their corrupt little pockets.

Answer 9

I agree 100% but it's the same with everything, Hospitals run by people with no medical knowledge, Garages run by people who have never so much as changed a wheel. Then there's where I work, a maintenance department, run by a total tw@t.

Answer 10

Yes i absolutely agree. I was brought on a farm and also a city. These are two different worlds where paths seldom cross. The country folks know best what is required to run there economy and business. It does not need morally righteous folks peddling there ideals on there door steps.
Farming folks don't interfere with city life so why should city folk interfere with country life?? Bottom line is they shouldn't...