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He can probably support his own thread.

Today, John does fruit farming. There are lots of derelict orchards where I live in Herefordshire. Funny that if you could get free money for ripping them up.

There were a few orchards here when I moved here in 1987.

Apple-named streets of housing now, with an apple-named care home.

Talking up ripping up orchards. From 2022, not 1975 or whatever John has in mind,

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ident-says

Farmers are ripping up orchards because they are unable to afford to keep them, the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said, in a major blow for biodiversity.

The increasing cost of labour and spiralling energy costs have meant fruit growers are removing trees from their land, Minette Batters said.

Loved walking dog past an apple orchard managed by a happy young Polish couple always pleased to see us. Now fallow and rotting as they packed their bags. You did that John Redwood, fuck you.

John's still on the EU making us rip up orchards. As ever, his angle on business is based on Nike's slogan "Just do it". He's got plenty of money. Can't he invest in orchards himself? Plenty of abandoned ones in Herefordshire if he wants to pay us a visit.

I mean whose going to do all the picking?

Poor families from London, like in John's day.