Executive Summary The following is drawn from conversations with farmers in this constituency during the early stages of the campaign. I am trying to understand the political outlook of its deeply rural communities, which account for roughly half the electorate. These voters are not always treated as having interests equal to those of people in towns and cities. That needs to change. Their connection to farming, the land and inherited responsibilities often gives them a particularly strong concern for continuity: what they will pass on, whether their children can remain, and what condition the country will be in when they do. City and town electors do not tend to be as grounded as this and we can all learn from it. Most of what follows is therefore field observation rather than my own opinion. It reflects what some members of the rural community have told me; it should not be taken as the unanimous view of that community. I conclude with my own analysis of a deeper national proble...
North Stoke Life
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