Sounds like the slave system

Your not far wrong

... I Have Family Who Live In 'Gumby' in Lincs.... I'm a 'Tyke' Bah Tat!... 😂😂😂 7:50

I live 5 minutes away from Nettleham

Nothings changed. Imagine living wages (the real kind, not the current government definition) and a farmer's cooperative that sold directly to communities, cut out the greed driven corporations. Poverty is a prison folks, no one is happy there.

@@Toodle.Pipp001 Yes, no romanticism about poverty. I just noticed that Bob was "content", you know. And contentment is a powerful thing. They were doing it tough, and they knew it, and they expressed it. And yet, he was content. He reminded me of the old saying, "Make hay while the sun shines." (Maybe it was the hay and the sunshine that prompted that 💡)

Good on Bob for sticking to his principles when all around him were goading him into taking up some soul-destroying factory job.

My grandad used to go tater picking in Leicestershire as a young lad & the farmer paid them very little. They used to sling some potatoes in the hedge during the day and then come back after they’d finished and take the potatoes for dinner! He also used to tickle trout out of the stream, not sure if it was a private not, don’t think it was the canal!

that very good of you.some one cares.

@@davepayne586 hello David, I find it hard to believe that farmers would charge their workers a rent a rent on tied cottages, in bloody believable, that's just not right on any level. Yes we treated them with respect, they for the most part were great old boys. Of course they were born in the late 1800's & early 1900's a completely different class of person. We also supplied a vehicle for the men who lived off farm, that was one or 2 Land Rovers. All the expenses paid, fuel & service. Why wouldn't a person want to treat people decently? They've all gone now, a lot of beautiful & lasting memories, God times are different now.

@@janoginski5557 Re' tied cottages, there's a lot from a very ancient past that has changed and changed and changed but still exists however outdated.

The video is in 1950s-too 60s UK

What on earth is ey up ???

@bobbymcculloch2451 You will have to ask Google because I can't be bothered to explain either 😕

What did you have for dinner

Yay - good old Monty Python/3 Yorkshire Men sketch !

Other people's misery is hilarious, eh. You must have a great time watching the news.

Depends on the scale of the farm,that man with the 2.5k acres in the lap of luxury and the poor mouth was telling lies wishing he could pay his employees double.

The subsidies are to insure cheap food for the public. Take away the subsidies and farmers will make more in the free market.

The problem was the British class system the Lords of the Manor kept the wealth and the peasants who never revolted are their slaves ,in Ireland as soon as the British landlords were fxxked out the peasants got the land .

Farmers aren't seeing the increase in food prices

Yeah there's always been a big meme about how awful factories were but in real life people were doing anything to get away from farms and into factories

The land is worthless unless you sell it. Machinery is needed to do the job. Would begrudge a surgeon using the latest tools and technology to carry out his work. Subsides are for the benefit of the public not the farmer. Farming is 365 days a year unlike most people's jobs.

The solution as I see it is to break the giant agri-businesses into smaller farms/smallholdings with less dependency on chemicals and fuel, regulate the behaviour of the "super" markets and make people accept that they will need to pay more for their food. Painful in the short term but I think it will be better for the environment and general well-being.

Lets eliminate farming, then. Import all our food from overseas (we do that anyway). Concrete over the farmland, build new towns and cities instead. 🤷‍♂️

@@smhorse Farming is the one thing that should be subsidised. Profit should not be a concern. You cannot properly regulate what goes into food, or its quality, or have any food security without this.

@@skyworm8006 : you'd hope so, but Western government doesn't think so 🤷‍♂️

It was the bigger farm that had workers , most farms didn't have financial scope to employ anyone .

Whenever my dad looked fed up my mum would tell me that his farmers were playing up again

It was worse then, it will get bad but not yet.

It was the norm back then. So, the same reason you are wearing the clothes you are.

@@huldaliljeblad3611 why ?

@@robertjsmith I guess they didn't want to be naked.

Farm workers across Europe and the UK have been underpaid forever, Brexit has nothing to do with it.

Right, and the EU is currently booming 😂😂

@@eps0m1066 Interesting that just a few months ago European farmers were collecting in droves on Motorways in protest at their government(EU)- ? because they were booming?...don't think so.

🤔 seems like farmers, are getting stuffed by politicians around the world at the moment. Before Brexit a lorry driver mate of mine told me he had to take a lorry load of carrots to Germany . Then pick up a lorry load of carrots and bring them back to the Uk🙄 something to do with EU trading agreements.😳 Crazy! Food prices are set to keep rising ☹️ Uk farmers are told to plant less, under the banner of the Government Cares for the Environment 😉 The same government who let foreign corporation backed water companies pump shit into 🇬🇧 Uk rivers for 20yrs 🙄😡 pollution for profit 💵💵💵💵 60+ Billion after tax taken out of the country and given to shareholders 💰💰💰 and the government punishes the polluters? ? .? by letting the water companies increase Uk consumers water bills It’s the British people who are being farmed.

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