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smokingbootI quite like the idea of a hyena 'spirit animal': I too would like to stride into unclean places fearlessly and laugh while shredding idiots and villains to bits.
During the Brexit referendum I talked about the EU banning neonicotinoids, bee-killing pesticides. The UK objected to this ban at the time, our then* colossally stupid Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson even sending an apologetic letter to Syngenta on the subject. Well, now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, permission has been given to our farmers to use this dangerous pesticide 'in times of emergency' i.e in this case to combat a virus in sugar beet. This is going to mean the death of billions of bees, and the effects on bird life and other pollinators could be horrific.
I recall talking to a slew of left wing environmentally minded friends about this possible impact of Brexit and they ignored it, so keen were they to fight fantasy global elites. Bloody quiet now, I notice. As for other chums who voted for this nonsense, they finally have something in common with those elite-curbing environmentalists; oh the goddamned silence! The lack of opinion! The dearth of clever answers on social media! The sheer nowhere-to-be-foundness of their voices! No worries, they've got sovereignty now, they'll fix it in a jiffy with their recovered powers of total impotence. Laugh, hyena, laugh!
Nope, not enough of a hyena to enjoy it. The joys of I told you so are lean and cold, I'd have rather been wrong.
However, Scotland may be another proposition, maybe we can keep it out of here, though bees don't care about borders. I really don't want to have to crawl through agriculture bills and all the rest of it, and I am not inspired by the local MP. But it's time to pay attention. Because fighting against this rubbish was so much fun the first time around, natch we must all start again.
God I feel angry and fed up and old.
* Then as in he was then our secretary of state for these affairs. AFAIK he's still colossally stupid.
During the Brexit referendum I talked about the EU banning neonicotinoids, bee-killing pesticides. The UK objected to this ban at the time, our then* colossally stupid Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson even sending an apologetic letter to Syngenta on the subject. Well, now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, permission has been given to our farmers to use this dangerous pesticide 'in times of emergency' i.e in this case to combat a virus in sugar beet. This is going to mean the death of billions of bees, and the effects on bird life and other pollinators could be horrific.
I recall talking to a slew of left wing environmentally minded friends about this possible impact of Brexit and they ignored it, so keen were they to fight fantasy global elites. Bloody quiet now, I notice. As for other chums who voted for this nonsense, they finally have something in common with those elite-curbing environmentalists; oh the goddamned silence! The lack of opinion! The dearth of clever answers on social media! The sheer nowhere-to-be-foundness of their voices! No worries, they've got sovereignty now, they'll fix it in a jiffy with their recovered powers of total impotence. Laugh, hyena, laugh!
Nope, not enough of a hyena to enjoy it. The joys of I told you so are lean and cold, I'd have rather been wrong.
However, Scotland may be another proposition, maybe we can keep it out of here, though bees don't care about borders. I really don't want to have to crawl through agriculture bills and all the rest of it, and I am not inspired by the local MP. But it's time to pay attention. Because fighting against this rubbish was so much fun the first time around, natch we must all start again.
God I feel angry and fed up and old.
* Then as in he was then our secretary of state for these affairs. AFAIK he's still colossally stupid.
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