The NRW consultation into shooting on their land proved beyond doubt what an abject failure a Welsh devolved Government has been, if only it had been just an experiment to test the water, tried, failed miserably, now back to Westminster to stop the bullying. Hard working, decent tax-paying folk are faced with endless rounds of public reviews and consultations to appease and pay back animal rights, left wing extremists who donated a total of £1.5 million pounds into Labour’s coffers. The largest slice, in 1997, of £1 million was further enhanced leading up to the 2010 general election by a £250 thousand donation, matched again in 2015 with another £250 thousand. You don’t have to be conspiracy theorist to work out the Political Animal Lobby want a return on their investment.
A cosy little arrangement exists between animal rights groups and Labour where invented campaigns and money are provided to Labour in return for them promoting the campaign into the public domain. Money is then collected from donations, both end up winners. The losers are you, the hard working tax-payer, because the campaigns are centred around bullying decent hard working folk with vicious accusations of poor animal husbandry and no real concern for animal welfare, it’s all about the money they claim, with a donation button not far from the false allegation.
It should be noted these claims come almost exclusively from people who have absolutely no expertise or experience in animal husbandry against a background of the highest animal welfare standards in the world.
The campaigns are based on pseudo-science so will get found out soon enough either in of after a review. Nobody could forget the humiliation of the Welsh government using tax-payers money to fund Professor Stephen Harris to conduct a review into the use of wild animals in circuses in 2016. The ink was barely dry when the letter from Professor Ted Friend landed on the desk of Lesley Griffiths AM debunking the review. Harris was marched double quick time into retirement but left Griffiths with a get out of jail card. The card allowed her to hold an opinion poll public consultation where it was deemed roughly 1,000 respondents in favour of a ban to the consultation equated to more than the circus folk therefore she was given an excuse to ban. The nastiness of this episode is apparent – nobody was ever told of the debunking even though I requested it be made available on the public consultation website, so the respondents to the public consultation still believed the data was valid from the debunked review when they answered the questions.
Here we are then, after very complex review questions have been comprehensively answered by the shooting community and they failed to trip us up and find a way through. Low and behold, the Labour bigots with their debt are trying to find a way through using an opinion poll public consultation with very easy questions guiding the activists same old nasty Labour.
One can’t help wondering if the poll was conducted under Welsh guidelines whereby the raw data need not be disclosed, thus preventing any challenge to the findings.
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