dad, grandad, angler,sailor and gardener.apparently Grumpy old Git. Now comes with free big C.
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@chris_sutton73 has given #Ipswich a win at long last.
Considering his record that doesn’t bode well for town.
They would concrete over the whole country if they could. Their so called environment concerns are simply false.
They just don’t give a shit.
The Labour government don’t give a shit about the countryside. A mixture of inverted snobbery against rural communities, rural independent businesses, farmers and landowners and seeing farmland as an asset to dismantle and asset grab for themselves and their net zero and big tech corporation cronies.
John Laughlin retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: A UK bank chief executive has said of Healey's budget:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
ft.com/content/80acb561-34e2…
John Laughlin retweeted
French Glass Eel Fisheries: Who’s Accountable?
Simon et al. (2022) reported glass eel mortality of 7.4% on average, peaking at 56.2% across 29 boats on five French rivers (2019–2020).
Were these fisheries certified by the Sustainable Eel Group?
#SaveOurEels #EelCrisis @EU_ENV
John Laughlin retweeted
17 TONNES of critically endangered European glass eels allocated for consumption & farming in France.
Millions of juveniles taken from a species in crisis for plates and profit.
How can European eels recover when France keeps taking their future?
#EuropeanEel
@EUCommission
John Laughlin retweeted
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This is a supertrawler. One of 26 that operate in British waters.
Together with the EU they scrape over 500,000 TONNES of fish from our sea a year. Leaving our fishermen on their knees and supermarkets importing the fish we eat from … China.
Brexit allowed us to fix this devastating mess but we didn’t. Both Labour and Tories say they have no definition of a supertrawler, so they can ban them.
How’s that sustainability goal working out?
John Laughlin retweeted
RT @DavidJoBrexit “@AndyBurnham is poised to dilute big immigration crackdown in bid to avert Labour civil war. Labour just like the Tories promise everything & deliver nothing. Labour will never control immigration or stop immigrants getting ILR because they need new voters” dailymail.com/news/article-1…
Saw the same near me. Just a student doing a report. ‘Found anything?’ He opened his ice cream tub with a small toad inside. ‘Just this’ my adjacent garden is full of newts toads and frogs. Sad thing now it’s a small estate of £1M+ houses. Residents applying to cut down trees
#ecology reports are bought and sold and false information is the only way ecologists keep their jobs when will we see independent government ecology to save our countryside from the big conglomerates ??? @DefraGovUK @angelaeagle @_RobbieMoore @amcarmichaelMP @CPRE @suffolkwildlife @NaturalEngland @Feargal_Sharkey @Gameandwildlife @TrooperSnooks
John Laughlin retweeted
I asked my MP @Jenny4SuffCoast the minister for nature. She never replies
GLASS EELS: DOUBLE STANDARD?
France catch 55 tonnes (22t for consumption, 33t for restocking) of Critically Endangered glass eels. The UK fishery is unauthorised.
Why?
#EuropeanEel
@JNCC_UK
@EnvAgency
@DefraGovUK
#RiverSevern
John Laughlin retweeted
I'm getting a sick and tired of people knocking electric cars when they clearly don't know what they're talking about.
I own two top-of-the-range EVs: a Jaguar and a Porsche.
The acceleration is incredible, the handling is superb, and they both look fantastic. Running costs are pennies, maintenance is practically non-existent, and neither has lost a penny in value since I bought ‘em.
Honestly, my only complaint is that if I take a corner a bit too enthusiastically, they fly off the track and disappear under the sofa.
I asked my MP @Jenny4SuffCoast the minister for nature. She never replies
GLASS EELS: DOUBLE STANDARD?
France catch 55 tonnes (22t for consumption, 33t for restocking) of Critically Endangered glass eels. The UK fishery is unauthorised.
Why?
#EuropeanEel
@JNCC_UK
@EnvAgency
@DefraGovUK
#RiverSevern
John Laughlin retweeted
Governments should stick to governing.
Let business professionals run businesses.
Why do politicians (especially ideological socialist politicians) always think the state can do everything better, when patently it can’t 🤦🏻
John Laughlin retweeted
Labour all over. The first few months in power they bump the unions and their members wages up. Build more government. Raise taxes at every opportunity. Gaslight the British people. Then when they start getting found out they use diversion tactics to make us look the other way. Spend 80 % of their time bad mouthing and blaming the opposition and the other 20 % of their time thinking of ways they could add to the first 80 % of their time. There is a reason that they do not spend much time in power.
John Laughlin retweeted
The French glass eel fishery opens very soon, where tens of millions of juvenile eels will be caught for consumption.
In the UK, removing or consuming glass eels is illegal. Same species, different rules.
Why?
@JNCC_UK
@EnvAgency
@DefraGovUK