Farmers lack foresight over land access

NO sooner did the Labour Party introduce its proposed modest bill last week to facilitate legal access to mostly unproductive mountain land than it was subjected to the usual brainless tirade from the main farming organisations.

All it lacked this time was the customary references to Cromwell, rape and pillage.

Once again, the farming organisations fail to see the difference between rough grazing land and someone’s back garden. Once again, they forget that access to the countryside has no Constitutional implications.