ONE OF the greatest frustrations of recent political history is how division has become an electoral tool and compromise has become perceived as weakness. Rural politics has been as scarred by this trend as every other part of our lives. From the discussions in mainstream and social media, it would seem that the various views on the future of the countryside are so far apart as to make any attempt at accommodation futile.
It was a rejection of this fatalistic view, and a belief that there is actually a large
