That’s extremely interesting. I’ve forwarded it to an ardent brexiteer and EU hater I know to see his views on it. I imagine it’ll all be the EUs fault somehow .....
Having already decided that animals aren’t sentient creatures contrary to the EU and our previous beliefs, bees are in the firing line now.
Can anyone remember driving through country lanes on a summer evening and all the bugs all over the windscreen? These days, you hardly ever seem to get them. That’s down to these pesticides and changes in farming. No insects, no pollination and we’re ****ed ......
There will be plenty of this. Vague notions of nationalism (and the economic crisis that is likely to occur with the combination of COVID's hangover and Brexit) will be cited as justification for all manner of cynical rollbacks of worker, consumer and environmental protections. I'm not one who believes that they have created this crisis for the purposes of pushing these change, but I think it's a happy fringe benefit to their sheer incompetence.
I love the way Mark Steel cuts to the point with his observations. He says how, at the most crucial point in this country’s history for 75 years, we have to rely on Johnson and Gove. He adds that “This is like finding an unexploded bomb in your house, calling the council and they send round Paul Gascoigne and a kangaroo to deal with it”. It sure helps to understand the absurdity of the position that Johnson and his cohorts have placed this country in.
Good piece in the Graun about how the Tory revolution started by Thatcher is reaching its culmination with a no deal crash Brexit: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...inyUJ3s-wMoy1QRY7QMIFMzmjTM-sS6_QgKGIemHxbHBM
This is from a Republican strategist for George W, truly frightening what Trump and his many cronies tried to pull off...