Waiting, waiting, waiting…

Mark 5 Comments

One does wonder what the Scottish government is waiting for – surely it has made up its mind on the Werritty report.

Why dither any longer?

But the words in this recent response to correspondence do look vaguely promising.

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5 Replies to “Waiting, waiting, waiting…”

  1. The governments key economic advisor is Benny Higgins, who just happens to be executive chairman of the Buccleuch property investment and land management group. So I’m afraid you’re more likely to see Hell freeze over.

    Never mind, with the mess the current leadership of the SNP is in, change will come. It will be for the better and the result is going to assuage all that frustration over all the Scottish Government doing absolutely nothing on several fronts for the past few years.

    When the dam breaks it’s going to sweep away much more than few cobwebs.

  2. This statement by the Scottish Government, as you say Mark, looks vaguely promising. They say they will publish their responses by the autumn. Well that leaves just November left after that it is winter. I am sure there is a lot of lobbying going on and hopefully RSPB are in the forefront of this.
    It seems that the Scottish Government is very much becoming the critical lynch pin, as to the way ahead for properly controlling driven grouse shooting. as Defra in Westminster with their allies and friends, the shooters will do absolutely nothing.

  3. I’ll believe it when I see it. the problem is that there will be an awful lot of folk who sound like that awful man Rees-Mogg in dark corridors, in clubs, country retreats who are saying both to ministers, civil servants who advise ministers or folk at the top of SNH ” there will be no change.” When ever it comes to issues of “country” sports or conservation these are the folk who with their backdoor influence suborn the democratic process to either stagnate and stop or get their own way. What all those folk in or attached to government should say to them is ” begone” or something much less polite but they don’t.

  4. One problem with delaying a licensing system is that incentivises miscreants to further drive down the number of raptors to ensure as low as possible a baseline population at the start of the scheme, against which future numbers will be judged.

    It would be interesting to know whether the Scottish Government has drafted a licensing system pending its possible implementation, and if it intends to put any such draft out to public consultation.

    The glacial pace of progress to date does not inspire confidence.

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