I’m grateful to my MP, Tom Pursglove, for getting this letter out of DEFRA. Sounds great doesn’t it?
Category: THE POLITICS: Ministers, MPs, government policy
Incredible turn around on Badger cull.
The government will also begin an exit strategy from the intensive culling of badgers, while ensuring that wildlife control remains a tool that can be deployed where the epidemiological evidence supports it. As soon as possible, we intend to pilot badger vaccination in at least one area where the four-year cull cycle has concluded, with…
Labour leadership contest
I’ll be voting in this contest – any advice? Create your own user feedback survey I’ll probably vote next weekend.
EDM 139 – National Wildlife Crime Unit
If your MP is not a minister then they may be prepared to sign this Early Day Motion (#139) which calls for permanent funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit. You could write to them and ask. Many Conservative MPs do not sign any EDMs on the grounds that they are a waste of time…
DEFRA’s very clear explanation
This how DEFRA explains its position on legislation to end burning on deep peat – it should be on all peat, just as the Committee on Climate Change recommended. 54% of pre-existing consents to burn remain – that means that only about a half of landowners have agreed voluntarily to any change. You may remember…
Prentis regards rewilding as an evil
It’s interesting to see the new DEFRA minister Victoria Prentis being so chummy, almost flirting, with Tim Bonner at a Countryside Alliance do – the video sound quality is rather poor. But I was glad to hear that in the middle of central England, Ms Prentis had had more letters against driven grouse shooting than…
Farcical Villiers visit to flood-stricken Calder Valley
I like the Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker – have a look at what they write about the DEFRA Secretary of State’s (now former Secretary of State’s) visit to flood-stricken Hebden Bridge – click here
Shuffling
Well, well, well. Off goes the Chancellor saying that no self-respecting minister would allow the PM to dictate who his aids should be, which must make Rishi Sunak lacking in self respect. It is very broad-minded of Johnson to replace an alumnus of Downend Comprehensive with a Wykhamist though. Rishi Sunak, as MP for Richmond,…
Licensed killing of birds
When Wild Justice challenged the general licences issued by Natural England last year all hell broke loose. A year later we are seeing new licences being issued by public bodies in Scotland and Wales, and are awaiting the new DEFRA licensing regime for England. There’s a lot going on on this subject and, as one…