Thursday 13 January 2022

Buying The Farm...


Amazon Prime have announced that they are cancelling Jeremy Clarkson’s “Clarkson’s Farm” series. “Clarkson is a loser,” said an Amazon Prime representative. “Our founder, Jeff Bezos, is the world's richest man. As such, he is thoroughly committed to the principle of rich people getting exactly what they want, when they want it.”

“He thinks that Clarkson has let the side down badly.  He’s an embarrassment to rich people everywhere.  I mean, fancy allowing the local peasantry and their plebeian council to get in the way of digging up green belt land to build a restaurant and cafĂ© to make money.  What a weakling.”

“Instead, we have decided to commission a new series where a properly mega-rich person buys a farm and then does exactly what he likes with it.”

Amazon’s new series, “Dixon’s Farm” will catalogue the adventures of billionaire tax-exile and weekend hobby farmer Mark Dixon, as he goes around buying up every single bit of open land in North Kent to build wine bars and restaurants on.

“Not only has Mark Dixon bought a farm, but he’s also working on getting the council to go with it,” said Amazon Prime’s chief programme director.  “So with a bit of luck, they’ll be none of this stupid tree-hugging stuff about “Green Belts” or “Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty" to get in the way of extremely rich people becoming even richer.”

“A wave of Dixon’s Magic Wad should mean ‘yes Sir, of course we’ll call your massive multi-million pound luxury restaurant and visitors centre an “agricultural building”. When would you like the concrete to start pouring, Sir…?’.”

“We hope that this series will have a happy ending, one that will please off-shore billionaire tax exiles everywhere,” said Amazon Prime.

“I’m in favour of this application”, said a local MP. “Except that I am not supporting any tax exile to build a restaurant and wine bar complex at all. But I did say that I am in favour of it in principle, although I have never confirmed that I outright support the application.”

“I hope this clears up any confusion”… 

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