Are you mad, showing a G C Grebe eating ? As soon as Richard Benyon sees this, he will order Natural England to lock up this protected species and demand that all landowners destroy their nests with shotguns. Something like that anyway. Those whose initial thought to this 'mad' statement bears similarity to a famous John McEnrow phrase, better Google "Buzzards" and "Richard Benyon" right now. I am afraid it is very serious and it is about how a miniscule minority of our population; persons of narrow minded self interest have usurped our highest environmental protection bodies and want to trash our wildlife protection legislation, built slowly and democratically since the Victorian era.
If you think this will stop at Buzzards, think again. If you can take well known ecological first principles of predator /prey relationships and trash them in public; then declaring the Earth is flat and that gravity does not exist will surely follow close behind along with accepting that Astrology is a science. Perhaps any environmental law could be declared invalid at the whim of a minister in charge of DEFRA, if it pleases his good self or friends/relatives/cronies. I suggest that such a person should be legally removed from office, without saving face, ASAP. In fact I look forward to David Cameron declaring that Richard Benyon has his full backing, as he escorts him on camera to the exit marked "End of political career".
After you sign any e-petitions RSPB etc, just remember that a letter is worth a 1000 e-petition responses. A visit to your MP 's next surgery to look them in the eye and ask when this apologist for a representative of the people is being sacked for: bringing disgrace on his department; for wanting to unilaterally undermine law created under the principles of democracy and international agreement, ignoring factual based science and generally failing to carry out protection of the environment and wildlife in line with his job description (better check first that using vast public funds to potentially and only very marginally boost profits of a few shoot owners has not been added without our knowing).
Another might be writing a letter (far better) e-mail (still good) to the Prime Ministers Office to state that you find it sad that one of his appointees reflects exceptionally badly on his judgment. Then look at this MP's web site and do the same to each and every organisation he deems to associate himself with. Ask whether associating themselves with such a minister who seemingly cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction, right and wrong in the way that an average and much derided teenager can easily do so, is possibly a bad idea. Ask what standing they feel their organisation will continue to have in the public eye, including the millions of birdwatchers and other wildlife enthusiasts in England, the wider UK and Europe, when that connection is pointed out to them.
AND thank everyone for acting to remove this man from any office of power or influence, in line with natural justice, now and for the future of his existance.
OR you can sit on your backside and wave goodbye to any vestigial hope for our fast declining birds and wildlife, because if he gets away with this attack on what millions of us hold dear, then kiss goodbye to the next well thought through and argued environmental law, passed in a democratic manner, that he or others of his ilk want to spit upon or snuff out for their personal benefit. "You cannot be serious?". Well Richard Benyon certainly is, so you had better be as well.
Are you mad, showing a G C Grebe eating ?
ReplyDeleteAs soon as Richard Benyon sees this, he will order Natural England to lock up this protected species and demand that all landowners destroy their nests with shotguns. Something like that anyway. Those whose initial thought to this 'mad' statement bears similarity to a famous John McEnrow phrase, better Google "Buzzards" and "Richard Benyon" right now. I am afraid it is very serious and it is about how a miniscule minority of our population; persons of narrow minded self interest have usurped our highest environmental protection bodies and want to trash our wildlife protection legislation, built slowly and democratically since the Victorian era.
If you think this will stop at Buzzards, think again. If you can take well known ecological first principles of predator /prey relationships and trash them in public; then declaring the Earth is flat and that gravity does not exist will surely follow close behind along with accepting that Astrology is a science. Perhaps any environmental law could be declared invalid at the whim of a minister in charge of DEFRA, if it pleases his good self or friends/relatives/cronies. I suggest that such a person should be legally removed from office, without saving face, ASAP. In fact I look forward to David Cameron declaring that Richard Benyon has his full backing, as he escorts him on camera to the exit marked "End of political career".
After you sign any e-petitions RSPB etc, just remember that a letter is worth a 1000 e-petition responses. A visit to your MP 's next surgery to look them in the eye and ask when this apologist for a representative of the people is being sacked for: bringing disgrace on his department; for wanting to unilaterally undermine law created under the principles of democracy and international agreement, ignoring factual based science and generally failing to carry out protection of the environment and wildlife in line with his job description (better check first that using vast public funds to potentially and only very marginally boost profits of a few shoot owners has not been added without our knowing).
Another might be writing a letter (far better) e-mail (still good) to the Prime Ministers Office to state that you find it sad that one of his appointees reflects exceptionally badly on his judgment. Then look at this MP's web site and do the same to each and every organisation he deems to associate himself with. Ask whether associating themselves with such a minister who seemingly cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction, right and wrong in the way that an average and much derided teenager can easily do so, is possibly a bad idea. Ask what standing they feel their organisation will continue to have in the public eye, including the millions of birdwatchers and other wildlife enthusiasts in England, the wider UK and Europe, when that connection is pointed out to them.
AND thank everyone for acting to remove this man from any office of power or influence, in line with natural justice, now and for the future of his existance.
OR you can sit on your backside and wave goodbye to any vestigial hope for our fast declining birds and wildlife, because if he gets away with this attack on what millions of us hold dear, then kiss goodbye to the next well thought through and argued environmental law, passed in a democratic manner, that he or others of his ilk want to spit upon or snuff out for their personal benefit. "You cannot be serious?". Well Richard Benyon certainly is, so you had better be as well.