Farmers Licensed To Kill 6,000 Badgers

The Government is considering the slaughter of badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in England.
The Badger Trust has already stopped Welsh Assembly plans for a five-year cull in Pembrokeshire.
But more than 6,000 badgers in bovine TB hotspots such as Cornwall, Devon and Gloucester are at risk from a cull starting next May.
The Badger Trust says it would cost taxpayers £7 million.
Farmers would be licensed to shoot badgers at night – the only time they are above ground – or trap them in cages then shoot them.
The Badgers Trust and the RSPCA said: “Shooting badgers at night is likely to be inhumane, inefficient and potentially dangerous to all wildlife and to the public”.
The Trust and the RSPCA say a TB vaccine for badgers, licensed last March, would be a more humane and effective method of preventing the disease’s spread.
But the Government is set on a cull.
Last year the Government paid farmers £63 million of tax-payers money in compensation for the slaughter of about 25,000 TB-infected cattle.
But it fails to put this in perspective because 300,000 cattle are killed each year with farmyard diseases such as mastitis and foot rot, as well as thousands of bull calves considered not commercially viable.
The Badger Trust says the culling of badgers does nothing to resolve a complex problem which has its roots in the way cattle are managed and tested, and have urged for other measures such as better testing of cattle and restricting their movement.

Flood Killed 1,800 People In Holland

In 1953, a major flood killed around 1,800 people in Holland and authorities realised a sea defence had to be built.
The answer was to block certain estuaries leading to Antwerp and Rotterdam.
The basic premise was very simple – minimise the exposure of the dykes to the sea.
But the execution was amazing, and the scale of it enormous – the whole coastline had to change.
In the Odense area, the sea defence is designed for a one-in-10,000 year surge.
In England, the only comparable construction, The Thames Barrier, is designed for a one-in-1,000 year surge.
With sea levels expected to keep rising, work to broaden coastal dunes and strengthen sea and river dykes is estimated to continue for another 100 years.

Teacher Sent Home for Telling The Truth

The only proper Conservative speech at the Tory Conference came from teacher Katherine Birbalsingh, who was sent home from her London school for speaking the truth.
I suspect that these words were the ones that caused the trouble: “I don’t think ordinary parents have any idea about what goes on in their schools. But it is totally and utterly chaotic.
Teachers spend most of their time telling children to sit down or stop disrupting the class rather than teaching”.
She added that there was ‘a conspiracy of silence’ in staff rooms because teachers were too afraid of being branded as failures if they admitted how bad the true picture was.
Which I think is proved by what happened to her.
(Peter Hitchens, The Mail On Sunday).

Andrea Dunbar

Playright Andrea Dunbar emerged from a tough housing estate in Bradford during the late Seventies.
Her plays, depicting the brutality of life around her with a rough humour, were secretly written in school exercise books and championed by the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Her first work, written when she was a teenager and had never been to a theatre, was called The Arbor – named after Brafferton Arbor; the street on which she lived – and it was followed by Rita, Sue and Bob Too, which later became more famous as a film.
Andrea Dunbar died of a brain haemorrhage in 1990.
An extraordinary new film, The Arbor, follows the real lives of Dunbar’s children, Alison and Lorraine, and their personal struggles to cope with their mother’s legacy, one of abuse and sadness alongside her enduringly powerful plays.
Clio Barnard, the film’s producer, has interviewed the real people concerned, including Dunbar’s parents, sisters, daughters and friends, to trace lives of desolation, drug addiction and racism, themes eerily mirrored by her plays.

I Never Wanted To Be A Millionaire

Our house is protected by poverty.
There is nothing worth stealing.

Never lend money to females.
You can’t thump them if they don’t pay up.

A truly successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.

I never wanted to be a millionaire.
I just wanted to live like one.

Don’t try keeping up with the Joneses.
Drag them down to your level – it’s much cheaper.

It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Work is the price you pay for money.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

One who thinks that money can do everything is likely to do anything for money.

The wealthy man is the man who is much,
Not the one who has much.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Wealthy people miss one of life’s greatest thrills –
Paying that last instalment.

A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy.
Because the poor person has hope.
He thinks money would help.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons,
But it may also make important persons of fools.

God Is With Those Who Persevere

Victory is one-handed,
But peace gives victory to both sides.

Bad mind, bad heart.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Knowledge does not always impart wisdom,
And ignorance does not always prevent it.

If a wise man does not listen to advice,
He is not a wise man.

A bad wound can be cured,
But not a bad name.

Take the world as it is,
Not as it ought to be.

No one who lives in error is free.

A wise person neither belittles himself
Nor over-estimates himself.

Do the thing you fear to do and the death of fear is certain.

Men are made by nature unequal.
It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.

If you judge, investigate.
If you reign, command.

A wise person accepts things as they come and makes the best of them.

Envy shooteth at others,
But hitteth and woundeth herself.

Through obedience, learn to command.

God is with those who persevere.

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

Affliction is the trial of our faith.

The Bankers Have Their Snouts Back In The Trough

There is nothing fair about making dinner ladies, carers, nurses, teachers and the armed forces pay for a financial crisis created not by public servants but by greedy, reckless bankers.
Unbelievably, it’s business as usual in the city.
The gamblers who wrecked the economy are again paying themselves billions in bonuses.
The bankers who created a crisis which devoured billions of pounds in public bail-outs have their snouts in the trough, while people who are the back bone of Britain are asked to pay the price.
Where is the justice in that?
There isn’t any justice.
What is this government going to do about it?
That’s right, nothing!

Fraudsters Must Be Delighted

Tens of thousands of frauds are never recorded by the police.
People are being told by the police it is a civil matter and that The Crown Prosecution Service would take no action.
The latest British Crime Survey found 152,348 fraud and forgery offences recorded by the police last year.
But it said: “Incidents are known to be very substantially under-reported to the police”.
When they are reported they often end up classified not as crimes needing investigation but as “crime-related incidents” that can be brushed under the carpet.
One police officer said: “There is a total wave of fraud in this country at the moment but many officers have no idea what to do when it is reported to them.
Their senior officers aren’t going to tell them off for making it an incident because if it’s recorded as a crime it’s likely to remain unsolved and push down the detection rate.
It’s all about targets”.
Fraudsters must be delighted that when they rip off the public, it’s “a civil matter”.

Bad People In Our Society Are Not Afraid

Just because Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary has suddenly realised that police officers should once again walk the beat, do not expect that anyone will pay any attention.
The yelling louts and the problem families will still rule the streets.
The police will still regard you as a nuisance if you call them – assuming you can get through.
And if they do respond to your call, they will shake their heads sadly and say there’s nothing they can do.
In the unlikely event that anyone is ever arrested and charged for a crime, and then actually convicted and imprisoned, they will be rapidly released after a few months mixing with their mates and taking drugs in comfortable jails.

What has already happened to burglary – now regarded by authority as a trivial and uncontrollable offence – is happening quietly to murder.
The plans to introduce a charge of ‘second-degree murder’ will in the end enable many killers to get away with short sentences, and eventually with fines and ‘community service’.
The result, as with burglary, is that it will become commonplace, like so many other crimes that are now dealt with (or rather , not dealt with) by fatuous cautions and unpaid on-the-spot penalties where the culprit isn’t even required to go to court.
Bad people in our society are not afraid.
This is why we must all be afraid instead.
Our governing elite believe in ‘human rights’, which are invariably the rights of the wicked and the selfish.
Their policies have turned a free and happy country into a lawless slum.

The Horses Have More Sense

Don’t drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Katie Price, who claims to be a glamour model, author and singer, was fined £1,650 and given three penalty points after a court heard two police officers saw her swerving into an outside lane on a dual carriageway while using a mobile phone whilst driving her pink horsebox.
There were eight people in the vehicle, including four children.
The horses have more sense than she has.