article_snippet.sent: After police snipers had arrived on his farm,
article_snippet.sent: But an essentially urban government didn’t understand.
article_snippet.sent: The idea that something precious was on the edge of destruction was never really grasped.
article_snippet.sent: Alas, most of bureaucrats, supermarket buyers have no understanding of the proud, beleaguered culture he comes from, just like the secondary school teachers who told he that farming on the Lakeland fells was a dead-end business, a waste of brainpower.
article_snippet.sent: ‘and look in vain for us to understand’.
article_snippet.sent: It was the exact opposite.