Parakeets Are A Pest, Shoot Them

You’d think, given the outrage in this country about dogs left in hot cars, that animals are treated fairly here.
But given what’s going on in a leafy suburb in Hertfordshire, I’d counter we are living in the Soviet Bloc rather than 21st Century Britain, where the Government does not listen to us, or even to reason or science.
In this bastion of law-abiding tax-paying Middle England, a campaign is being mounted to save the Borehamwood 33 – a flock of wild birds descended from 12 monk parakeets that escaped from an aviary during a burglary 16 years ago.
The Government has decided they are a pest.
Two years ago, Natural England added both the monk and the ring-necked parakeet to the General Licence, which means the birds can be shot.
Yet in New York, a law was passed to protect a flock of approximately the same size as this one.
(Liz Jones)