Badgers: a new bloodsport.

I have a few blogs coming up in a short space of time, there is so much to say but this particular entry is very important to me and I think cutting and pasting the words of others will have far more impact than anything I can say, but let me give you the context.

Bovine Tb is a big problem in the UK and costs farmers and the taxpayers, £millions. The Government and DEFRA, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, have decided that badgers are the cause. All the Government scientists stated that a cull won't work and will make matters worse and the evidence shows that BTb is mainly transmitted from cattle to cattle with no evidence to show how much, if any, blame lies with the badgers.
The Government are citing Ireland, New Zealand and Australia as examples on where culling wildlife has worked but omitted the fact that they also increased the bio security and clamped down on the movement of cattle.
The Government also omitted to tell us that in Northern Ireland, where there is no cull, the instances of BTb have decreased to the same levels as Southern Ireland just through increased bio security and tightening the movement of cattle...you do the maths? Spend £millions on a cull that won't work and all the evidence says it won't or increase the stringent measures that have been shown, across the World, to reduce BTb? Well, Cameron and his bloodthirsty cohorts are intent on ruining the British Countryside, with fox hunting out of the window it appears they are looking for a new bloodsport and the poor old badger has drawn the short straw.
So with the background in place, here the words from the people that have moved me:

Somerset Against The Badger Cull

Can confirm that reports have come in from more than one person, that a shot was fired, a badger was heard screaming, then dogs were heard on the badger. THIS IS NOT RIGHT! not humane in anyway.

Dominic Dyer, a voice of reason: http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2013/08/27/comment-the-badger-cull-is-an-act-of-deceit-and-neglect

 

Brian Blessed said: "The government spent £50 million of our money examining the problem of TB in cattle. Their scientists told them in no uncertain terms that slaughtering our badgers was pointless. They ignored this advice and decided to kill them anyway.

"So Dr May shouted and we all signed his petition and the government had a debate about it. They agreed killing badgers was pointless. Now not only are they ignoring science they are ignoring themselves, and plan to shoot thousands of badgers very soon.

"So please, sign the petition, let them know that the British people will not be party to this. Remember, this has never been a choice between supporting farmers and saving badgers, this is a choice between the pointless slaughter and suffering of innocent creatures and leaving them to live in peace."

 

I have ordered a couple of the T-Shirts and will be making a donation to one or several of the organisations that are taking the fight to Somerset and Gloucester. I never, ever thought I would be supporting hunt sabs but they are the final defence for the badgers and my respect for them has risen tenfold, as much as my disgust for this Government has increased. 

I have never seen such a weak and pathetic Government, they are determined to ruin the Countryside, first the HS2, now the badgers and the fracking, the future of the England is sitting on a knife edge. I always thought that the Conservatives would put the Country first, unlike Labour who seemed horrifically corrupt at the end of their time in power. The sad truth is that they are both corrupt to the core, the difference, in this instance, is that the Labour Party are listening to the people, afterall we do have an election coming up in 18 months.

David Cameron seems to think that giving the cull the greenlight is both brave and "the right thing to do". 

It is such a tragedy that evidence based policy is ignored and stupidity becomes "the right thing to do". It is neither brave nor fitting for a Prime Minister to ignore the electorate in his pursuit of blood lust, there is no other way to explain or understand why this is happening.

Our own MP, the godawful David Lidington is simply a spineless mouthpiece, he has no opinion and simply regurgitates the "company" policy. 

 To end I would simply say this, some things break my heart and this Badger cull is one of them. To have to argue with stupidity, a lack of reason and a lack of evidence, when the vast majority of the Country, the Scientists and the Conservationists agree with me, is not democracy. 

Something is desperately wrong.