Wanted to watch it for 2 main reasons:
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I enjoyed the first season and wanted to see if second season was as good tdlr: it is
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The fact there was articles coming out Wednesday/Thursdays about him being investigated for the Markle article made me suspicious they might be trying to start a boycott like Hogwarts Legacy. Wanted to see if there's any reason the left might not want the public to watch it.
Spolier if you want to watch it first from here, skip to the tldr as last line:
It's as funny, informative and interesting as the first season but HEAVILY showed how government interference has brankrupted farmers and is strangling farmers attempts to diversify their income.
The EU essentially had subsidised farmers heavily, with Brexit happening that ends in the UK. Not just that but the EU farmers still have the subsidiary so they can lower the cost of their produce like pigs and undercut UK farmers in price.
The government has been wishy-washy on cowering this (as who cares about food security when Ukraine needs to be funded) so farmers need to look to other methods to balance the books as supermarkets undercut them so Clarkson decides to make a restaurant to sell his and other farmers produce there at a better rate.
The council doesn't just refuses planning permission on his land, but then start pulling every restriction they can to hurt him (even putting cones all along a country road outside his shop). He gets round this with loopholes by using an old barn instead for his restaurant and building it 2 days after they tell the council about it.
He also illustrates the horrible handling of TB with badgers and Cows and of the amount of redtape that holds farmers back.
TLDR: Season 2 illustrates the inadequacies, inefficiencies and pettiness of government that stops farmers earning a livable income from their produce alone including stopping diversification efforts. Not good having this widely viewed if you're trying to take farmer's land from them...
I'd assume that for most businesses but not actual farmers unless something catastrophic happens to your farm.
Unfortunately due to regulations in the West compared to other places, supermarkets and subsidised production everywhere else, the problem is unless you ensure farmers in your home nation can easily earn a living first, you run the risk of being more reliant on imports which means your country is easier to control from the outside as you have not got a sustainable food production internally.
Not really, no. "Price Stability" is always another way of saying "mass government intervention" because of course you're going to have sales, that's how you get rid of excess inventory.
And no, that's not what caused the Great Depression, that was a lie FDR told to seize control of farming. It (and the dust bowl) started out as a massive tractor bubble that the government pushed onto farming to "industrialize" it. The resulting economic shockwaves, gave the government excuses to try and control the economy even more, resulting in further knock-on effects, resulting in the government demanding more power to solve the problems it caused.
Lo and behold, a government program caused incredible damage that the government decided only a government program could solve.