Right to roam would really upset the landed gentry so I fully support it.

94% of Britain is off limits. No wonder we feel claustrophobic!

I own some land here in Ireland , but would love everyone to have the right to roam as much as possible. Accessing the countryside on foot helps increase knowledge of the natural world and hopefully love of and respect for nature too. A couple of generations ago here with far fewer cars, people in rural areas walked alot and there were many established shortcuts taken across fields taken avoiding longer, twisty road routes. These have now been largely forgotten in younger generations but I feel the countryside should be open to all - largely in line with the Flying volvo comments re Nordic countries in the comment below

Right to roam is a ancient right in Nordic countries, and the right to roam importantly comes with responsibilities including leaving the land untouched or in a better state then it was when you entered, not disturbing people and their homes, nor damaging any property including crops, and the right to roam only applies for walking or cycling, not automobiles or caravans nor any other form of transportation that can disturb the environment and wildlife. The only people who I can imagine being against it would be those with an financial interest in opposing anything that can even remotely be perceived as infringing on private property rights. And if you look who has and continued to own massive amount of land through history you'll find it to be a tiny minority who overwhelmingly doesn't have any plans to develop it, utilize it, or have it be designated as protected wildlife land(since that would again, even remotely be perceived as having any negative impact on "their" land).

Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿that’s what it is…that’s the right to roam…go anywhere as long as you look after the land and respect it, anytime

Jonathan Roberts, covered in tractor gearbox oil, fingers cut from baling twine, eyes bloodshot from long hours, explains how he struggles to feed England

1:45 the guy thinks the right to roam means people will be walking across wheat fields damaging the crops or walking through mud pastures stepping on cows dunk and occasionally being chased by mad cows during the calf season. I live in Scotland and I can tell you it's not about damaging farmers fields, property or scaring or stressing out the cows. It's about using the paths, roads and walkways which are already there and vast majority of the times these do not come in direct contact with free roaming livestock and certainly do not lead you to step of crops or newly planted trees. He just says what he has to because he's expected to due to his employment.

I live in a state in the USA where 93% of the land is privately owned. I would love to have more opportunities to fish local waterways that are too deep to tread but can't be accessed thanks to private land hoarders.

right to roam works well in Scotland and Scandinavia. Why should rich minority of landowners be able to gatekeep the public from the countryside

With Britain's poor job quality, house prices and rental rates, we'll soon need the right to camp too.

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The trespass point is important. We essentially do have the right to roam in the UK but as with pretty much everything else here it’s just stayed in a way that favours the interests of those with land/capital. You can go wherever you like and all the landowner can due is take you to court for any damage caused. We have internalised the idea of land being privately owned but there is nothing natural about it. We should have the right to roam and should be permitted reasonable access on most land.

Right to roam exists in Scotland and it works just fine. Far too many cap doffers down here in England. So long as you’re not intruding or disrupting crops/cattle what’s the harm?

Why is the majority of England poorly utilized farm land.. Half the roads can't fit a car down and the population is living in shoeboxes that you could hear your neighbour whispering through the walls. I've seen fields bigger than the size of a small town with just a couple horses in it.. year on year, nothing changes.

Right roam or right to trample and fly tip.

We're a small and densely populated country so we shouldn't let private landowners limit where we can walk even more. The vast majority of people are responsible so it's a non issue

We have the right to roam in Finland, it doesn't hurt anybody, the landowners aren't losing anything on account of it, everybody loves it.

With appropriate boundaries and duty of care to the environment, im sure this can be accommodated.

When in England, do as the roamers do. 🚶‍♂️

Hello from Australia, you are welcome to come here and walk as much as you want.

I remember wanting to fish salmon in scotland and found out that every single part of the river was owned by certain lords and a royalty had to be paid...

From what I hear from woodland owners is the genuine roamers aren't so much of a problem but it opens the floodgates for everyone to trample the land and sometimes the delicate ecosystems get damaged in the process . Problems such as mountain bikers racing about , defecation from humans and dogs , litter , out of control fires etc etc etc . People setting a camp up for a night without permission and so on. One particular complaint I heard was from a Scottish woodland owner who bought his wood to study birds and was very upset when birds nests had been deliberately raided for the eggs and / or idiots destroying nesting sites . Enjoying responsibly is one thing but at what cost ?

Too much land in too few hands

There's a lower population density and a different type of agriculture. Stating the obvious is not an argument against the right to roam.

"My friend Jack Goodman and I decided to roam about the English country side and it was a BIG MISTAKE!" - David Kessler🤕

1:56 Using environment as an excuse makes my blood start to boil.

I remember a documentary years ago about a house that was built over an ancient pathway and they had to allow access through their house to anyone using the pathway.

the right to roam law was one of the first things the new scottish parliament did 20 years ago. however all previous attempts over a century were thwarted by the land owning interests in the house of lords. good luck with that england.

" the only people banned are ravers and hunt saboteurs" - UK 2023

Watching this from continental Europe i cannot but shake my head in disbelief over the sheer childishnes that is represented in this issue. I hope the representative on camera is payed exceedingly well for having to represent such asinine and childish views. "No... noooo, you can't play with my things. It's my land. Mine i say!!!" (Please imagine cartman) How much and what sort of damage do these people imagine the roamers can and/or would do?? Rather than presenting a FUD number of feeding 70 million, then talk about the quantity of potential loss. Silly FUD, I say!!

Scotland actually has way less Farmland which is the reason the population is so small because you can only produce so much food on the land. Majority of England is Farmland.

When they roam on your property and then sue you when they get injured tell me again about your rights.

2:30 the guy looking at the foot in question haha 😂

The problem is that yobos will ruin it for everybody in England.

It seems that people mostly roam in just one direction.

All our local public footpaths are getting so overgrown many are impassible , why can’t some one be responsible for this? It forces you to use different routes meaning you are trespassing …🤔🤔🤔🤯😳

Erecting signs telling people what they should not do is the traditional pastime of the English, is it not?

We are all placed on Earth and should have equal rights to it. That said, this should be done respectively in accordance with Nordic tradition

Give us land to roam and land to live on and grow food too

This concept is so foreign for us who live in Asia/third world countries. Sounds weird to be able to walk into private property

Live and let live each to there own ❤😮

We have loads of public footpaths. Surely that’s good enough?

TreeDeep Outdoors has a good take on exactly this subject. Well worth a watch.

No chance. That only happens in civilised countries. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

“Countryside is for feeding people and protecting the environment” that a man with less than 100iq if I ever seen one😂

I'm heavily in support of it, but it has to be done right. Afterall, nobody would want the notion of wanderers freely trespassing in people's small private gardens. There needs to be very careful stipulations to safeguard that.

Everything should be in public ownership

As an avid English roamer, this is a bit of a non-issue. Is there is a track of a path you can walk on it. If a landowner objects, tell him to take you to court. The Scottish right to roam works well there because very large parts of the country are uncultivated highland, meaning you can walk pretty much anywhere without the possibility of damage. In England, roaming in this manner is not really possible, given the presence of fences and crop fields almost everywhere.

Right to roam in principle is ok, but that’s only when intelligent civilised people are involved. Unfortunately there are many crazies out there. Let see what happens.

Move to Scotland x

Shall we talk of privatisation ?

Doing it anyway

I wonder how many people have the sense of responsibility and consideration to roam?

so this has not been sorted out and you still say, Refugees are welcome? I watched other video about swimming in rivers, where they said that it is more like swimming in sewage. Honestly, this country should officially be declared as Danger to Life, like they do with storms.

Old woodland is not safe to roam as there could be old traps hidden in the undergrowth.

This land is our land

That fella in Dartmoor ... no no no you can't roam here on my land....oh give me some money and that will be fine... only thinking about the environment you know.....

its in their blood to roam let them roam for gods sake

Doesn't happen on A good reason to bring back more liberal fire arms laws. This doesnt happen in Canada.

What does he think raving is? 👀🤔🤣

The King has thousands of acres to roam.

Hands the bit of paper to an African girl. Could not find any English, Channel 4?

Right to roam! Good for humanity

There should also be a right to live off the land.

Let the people roam. Let us not be cooped up

This is a further proof of how authoritarian little britain has become!

Fine in theory but the first person to die on a farm will start a legal case.,

So happy to be from America

Can someone explain to me what is this about not being able roam through the countryside?? I am from the U.S.A, and am not familiar with this issue. Can someone explain? Thank you.

All around me is private or military

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Imagine radicals trespassing all over....

People already get attacked or killed by livestock in England wether there's a footpath or not lets also not forget dogs attack livestock and people damage fences and land. It's seems very one sided people want to walk in my back yard but you won't like it if i walk in yours.

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I feel like I just don’t trust people enough not to litter and spoil nature, there are too many irresponsible people. And travellers will just set up camp on fields.

'mon i Beanos, time to grow a spine!

I live in the countryside and the last thing I want to see is people from inner-city slums turning up here and thinking they can do what they want...

Right to roam is a good concept, if done right. Basically open fields that are not fenced off are free to walk through, but if fenced off, or within close proximity of homestead should be off limits.

Depends where you are roaming if it's on someones land they have every right to keep you off their land and it beings to them legally they have the right to do That

I all for right to roam but I still see idiots with their dogs off lead on farmland where animals are . Always get the it’s only other peoples dogs line when I question them. I would allow roaming where paths exist and open land , moors and such. In short better paths well marked and access to open none farmed areas and national parks.

/ walked thousand of miles across england using a map compass huge amounts of public highways many not in good condition rarely seen others rarely had problems with landowners /// nice idea ------- who knows ...

Ask Kate Bush.

whats he talking about 'the countryside exists to protect the environment and feed people' not to walk on .. haha - how dare people want to walk in the countryside

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nationalise all private farms to save the planet ? pay the farmers CBDC,

Does Billy the bull have the right to roam?

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I am confident the British people will treat nature with the respect they have shown throughout all their endeavors.

Livestock? Animal agriculture should absolutely be abolished

Our daughters, and all of our children and their descendants need to be able to grow up in a country which is safe, homogeneous, and high-trust. A country in which we, the peoples of Britain, dictate our own affairs and our own destiny, rather than traitors and parasites who serve megalomaniacal foreign psychopaths who despise us. And above all, a country which simply feels like home. A country which is genuinely ours, as it ought to be.

I think everybody should be free to roam.

Why hunt saboteurs ?

How about just respecting other people’s property. There are length of places for people to walk without being invasive of other people’s land. Try asking permission / it is the courteous thing to do

Be careful-if you lose this right you won’t be getting it back.

I all ways have the right to roam if I wish I’ve been doing this most of my life its go for your mental health and body health so way stop it, just because the government is so lame kick them out and start again in Europe it will be a lot better and always level no trace

The moon belongs to me. God says.

Respect the right to private property, these people are obviously city dwellers so they don’t understand what a violation it is to have some uninvited stranger just wandering about your home.

No one has been prevented from roaming Dartmoor! It's a national park, private land adjoining it isn't recreational or bought for millions of feet to destroy tho7gh! Marxism in action is what this is all about!

Ban all property

1:40 She has NEVER been rambling in her life Just shipped in for the cameras