Just asking..
Category: THE POLITICS: Ministers, MPs, government policy
What sort of Environment Act do shooting Tories want?
Well how would I know? Well apart from Tim Bonner’s oft-mentioned dislike of the European legislation, such as the Habitats Directive (drafted by arch-lefty Stanley Johnson, remember)(see here and here) and maybe from keeping an eye on what they do… Here are three examples from two shooters, both of whom spoke in the 2016 Westminster…
Johnson flies off again
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From yesterday’s PMQs – I fail to detect the Prime Minister wanting a greener more sustainable future in these words;
What now, DEFRA?
Yesterday’s announcement by the Scottish government makes DEFRA look like it is still run by throwbacks to the Edwardian era. No DEFRA minister with responsibility for wildlife conservation has ever condemned wildlife crime in the terms that we heard from the Scottish government yesterday; not Richard Benyon, not Rory Stewart, not Therese Coffey and not…
Scottish Government to opine on Werritty report
I read on Raptor Persecution UK today that the Scottish Government is going to say something about the Werritty report tomorrow afternoon – good. After all this time of setting up the group, writing the report, publishing it and then reading it, we need to see some action on the subject in Scotland. I’m quite…
What a contrast
What a contrast between this image from the Peak District NP in Bob Berzins’s latest blog; …and this image of a potential future for Exmoor NP from Lee Schofield’s guest blog of yesterday; …and what a shame that the Glover report failed at all adequately to address the choice facing our National Parks and AONBs….
Westminster Hall debate on moorland burning scheduled for Wednesday
Thought to be 16:30-17:30 – it will be interesting to see which backbench MPs show up. More details when I know them.
News: English general licences, for 2021, published – and they are different
DEFRA has just published the general licences for England for 2021 (helpfully alongside the existing licences which expire on 31 December 2020 so that one can compare and contrast). Click here for ‘conservation’ licences. Click here for serious damage licences. Click here for safety licences. I’m reading them, as are the Wild Justice lawyers.
USA moves towards a Biden presidency?
I am very fond of the USA and of individual US citizens who, as a rule, on their home turf, I have found to be wonderful hosts and friendly people. But they do elections in a strange way, don’t they? The matter of selecting a President appears, as far as votes counted are concerned, to…
Waiting, waiting, waiting…
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.