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Alan Titchmarsh is 'a complete muppet', says Tory minister

Posted by Phil Voice on December 8, 2012 at 12:46pm in Plants

Owen Paterson hits out at celebrity gardener who criticised the government's countryside policies.

A cabinet minister has called TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh a "complete muppet" for criticising the government's countryside policies.

The environment secretary, Owen Paterson, accused the gardener of not paying attention to what was going on.

The rebuke came after Titchmarsh questioned the response to ash dieback disease and warned that the Conservative party had lost its roots in rural areas.

"Time was when the Tory party was the party of the shires and understood how the countryside works," he said at the launch of the 100th Chelsea flower show last month.

"There seems to me very little investment in rural areas and the countryside. We have to look after agriculture and horticulture: growing things. This is how we feed ourselves."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/08/alan-titchmarsh-complete-muppet-tory

 

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  • Ian Olpin December 8, 2012 at 1:13pm

    Closing the stable door comes to mind...Alan Titchmarsh is'nt the only one criticising government policy on this matter; Harry Cotterell, president of the Country Land and Business Association did too, back in October.

    "While he welcomed the import ban, Cotterell criticised the government for not warning of the disease in the UK earlier..."

    Owen Paterson most probably considers Harry Cotterell to be a complete muppet too.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/27/ash-tree-ban-uk-t...

     

     

  • Lawncare-4u.co.uk December 8, 2012 at 11:03pm

    a bit rich from an MP !   considering hes building a train track direct from shrewsbury > london for himself to get to parliament right through the countryside ..................       hes my local MP   a big PUPPET

  • chris nangle December 10, 2012 at 3:43pm

    Owen Paterson is a complete muppet ,that is a fact! the man is a fool of the very worst kind

  • Lawncare-4u.co.uk December 17, 2012 at 11:58pm

    you've met him then ....  :)      i have not.

    chris nangle said:

    Owen Paterson is a complete muppet ,that is a fact! the man is a fool of the very worst kind

  • chris nangle December 18, 2012 at 4:08pm

    I have mate and he is a Muppet !!

  • Fenlandphil December 19, 2012 at 6:54am

    I always liked Kermit, I thought he spoke a lot of sense.

    As usual, MPs are giving decent hard working muppetts a bad name.

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