For once I will give some credit to Micheal Gove who has turned government policy around. The EU put a ban on the use of neonicotinoids in 2013 against the wishes of the UK. The evidence shows that they were right to do so, and the UK will now join in with the ban. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...n-bee-harming-pesticides-michael-gove-reveals
Probably needless to say, but I couldn't give him credit for anything. To me, this is more a case of Michael Gove imposing a ban after being finally convinced that pesticides really are a danger to spineless creatures. Self-preservation methinks...
Excellent blog on the folly of Christmas consumerism.... My sentiments exactly http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/ "Bake them a cake, write them a poem, give them a kiss, tell them a joke, but for god’s sake stop trashing the planet to tell someone you care. All it shows is that you don’t."
Interesting article about vegetarianism https://www.noicemagazine.com/other-articles/vegetarian-literature
For far too long the country has been out sourcing one thing after another, but this looks as if there is now a problem that was not thought about. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42455378
Yes we need to have sustainable waste processes.... just cant dump in someone elses back yard... anyone who has seen the plastic in our oceans will testify to this...
Has Cologne got a few buddies in France that hate cars just a much? France’s night in flames as thugs revolt torching 1,000 cars and ‘lynching’ police THUGS ran amok up and down France torching more than 1,000 cars and attacking police in a night of chaos on the streets. ...
I don't need to respond to this. Whilst I may loath the car industry and what it has done to our cities I would not justify targeting individual car owners - which could include most of those on here. I would certainly target the car industry by whatever legal means I have at my disposal, but that is a different thing. This does not appear to be motivated by any kind of environmentalist concerns (a burning car causes just as much pollution as a running one) - just a wanton lust for destruction and violence, presumably inspired by alcohol. It is, however, true that I regard the senseless beating up of the police as the more serious offence.
The Express is in full flight with this story, but what can one expect. The report in my French newspaper tells me that the THUGS were aged between 11 and 13 in this region. Over the two largest towns Poitiers and Chatellerault there were 12 cars involved. This is not a revolt against anything, just a senseless tradition that has built up over the years in the towns and cities. Arson and violence in any form should not be tolerated, but I could point you to cars being deliberately set on fire in England twenty years ago. Having searched the national news there is no report of huge revolt against anything, just a police officer who got a broken nose as he tried to arrest a teenager in Paris. The main items being how well the President is doing and his poll rating is back above 60% approval, far better than any politician in England, and how a wind turbine fell down in the wind.
Aha, I should have waited before replying......just the Express up to their normal standard of reportage and SH. using it for an attack on France. I might have known
It seems others are reporting the story too, not such a made up story!! Over 1000 cars torched across France as New Year's Eve arrests rise Almost 1,000 cars torched around France on New Year's Eve but ... French car-burning on New Year's Eve has increased for the first time ... French Car-Burning Rite Spreads | TIME.com
It seems this tradition has been going on for over 10 years and is not limited to NYE apparently Bastille Day is also a peak in incidents of car burning.
What exactly are you trying to say here ? Other than appealing to your apparent desire to run down France at every opportunity.
Until today I didn't know that car burning was a French national sport. Is that why there are so many old cars in France?
Just to keep it in perspective 100,000 cars go up in flames in Britain every year - which equates to 300 per day. Not saying that these are deliberate just bringing in a bit of perspective.
I'm sure just as many accidental burnings also happen in other EU countries, it just seems hooligans in France have a particular penchant for setting them alight on purpose.
