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I'm sure we're all astonished to learn that the Gibberment has utterly failed to count the number of badgers in the proposed cull area properly and has therefore "postponed" said cull until they can borrow somebody else's fingers to count on.

Meanwhile, if you live in the UK, you can write to your MP <a href ='https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/stop-the-badger-cull">via this page</a> to tell them what a rotten idea it was in the first place. Hopefully, by next summer they'll have forgotten that they meant to do it at all.

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I'd be appalled and shocked at this latest evidence governmental idiocy, but the truth is I'm all burnt out on shock and horror at idiocy of government. I swear they'd need three goes to tell their left arm from their right at this stage.

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Still, at least this time their idiocy has stopped them doing something even dafter!

BTW, I posted your fennel seeds this morning :)

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Oh thank you, I forgotten all about those. I shall have something to look forward to :o)

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Ridiculous, isn't it.

There's a disease of cattle, so let's kill off all the badgers because they help to spread it. Vaccinate the cattle? What? Good grief, whatever can you be thinking? We can't possibly vaccinate the cattle! What do you mean, "badgers are protected"? Protected from... ah, protected from the populace! No no, that's a different matter altogether. It's OK if we 'cull' them, because that's not the same as 'killing', is it. It's a 'cull'. It's for their own good. Eh? Will it stop the cattle disease? I don't know. It might... Look, the farmers are up in arms because of this cattle disease, and if they're up in arms it means we'll lose votes. Yes, votes. No, we can't afford to lose votes. See, you're coming round to my view now, aren't you. We have to get rid of the badgers. It's for their own good, you know...

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But at least, as you say, they've 'postponed' the kill, sorry, cull.

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Indeed. Mad as spoons, the lot of 'em. And that's leaving aside the possibility that the badgers caught the wretched disease from the cows in the first place. [explodes]

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Considering the number of dead badgers I see on the side of the roads on a regular basis, there must be a heck of a lot more of them roaming round the place. Praps the gummint were only counting the dead ones and if they hadn't seen any for a while, decided they must have all snuffed it. But the rest of them might have joined the Tufty Club.

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Praps the gummint were only counting the dead ones

I wouldn't be at all surprised, considering some of the other daftness they get up to...

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I know this is serious and all but all I can picture is Monty Pythnesque like MPs crawling through farms and people's gardens, trying to count the badgers. '1, 2, 3, no wait, I counted that one. Oh no! They went under the shed'!

I'm easily amused.

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[giggle] Yes. Ah, MPs falling into cowpats! What a comforting image :)

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I just don't get it. If vaccination is good enough for Wales, and for many other countries too, what on earth is stopping the rest of the UK from adopting the same policy?

I agree that more effective action needs to be taken against the spread of bovine TB, but as badger culling is at best of limited effectiveness, and is at worst counter-productive, it would make more sense to vaccinate cows, and to keep badgers (as far as practicable) out of cow byres and food stores. If vaccination interferes with the TB skin test for cows (as stated in the BBC Q+A), then it's about time they used another test which isn't affected, even if it's less convenient.

Edited Date: 2012-10-24 10:36 am (UTC)

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Now there you go, being all sensible and making the Gibberment look silly! (Not that they need much help in that department, goodness knows).

I'm strongly inclining to the view that we should cull the MPs and put the badgers in charge instead....

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