Or, possibly more appropriately, gas them:
However, there is still no end in sight to the congestion. Badgers are protected by law and their setts can only be moved between the beginning of July and end of October, and only once Natural England grants permission.
As Suffolk Highways only applied for a licence to move the badgers in June and has still not been granted authorisation, if the licence is not granted before the end of the month the road restrictions will remain in place for a further eight months.
What the fuck do you mean 4 months isn’t long enough to get a licence?
Actually, why don’t we just garotte Tony Juniper as an example to the others? Live, on TV.
Careful, Tim. That’s getting very specific for current standards of expression.
It’s not the old days anymore.
Perhaps they need to do a site visit to grant the license and as they all “work “ from home it’s proving tricky.
I mentioned to a local farmer recently that there seemed to a lot more hedgehogs around recently and he was saying that even Brian May now accepts that they can be overstocked and need to be culled (I’ve taken him at his word).
The simple solution to all of this bureaucracy is presumed permission one week from application submission.
As I keep saying.. people keep voting for them. The red flags about the Conservatives were there 15 years ago. Putting a hippy like Juniper in charge of anything can be added to a million other bad things about them.
I live in a seaside town abd we are being overrun by badgers. They dig up the lawns, go through the bins, mug old ladies of their pension books…
The little blighters are everywhere, worse than the seagulls.
“setts can only be moved”
Persuasion is far more effective, just talk to them nicely.
Badgers are creatures of habit. Unless you move them a long way they’ll try to go back.
Following exactly the same path every night means that if the country folk really wanted rid of them some informal killing would be easy. Just a bit of patience required.
As I keep saying.. people keep voting for them.
Not for the bureaucrats though who are the POCs in the woodpile where granting (or rather, not granting) licences is the issue.
asiaseen,
“Not for the bureaucrats though who are the POCs in the woodpile where granting (or rather, not granting) licences is the issue.”
Rishi has a majority of over 80 MPs. Why can’t he fire the bureaucrats?
I see an opportunity for the small gangs hired to arson listed buildings and crooked houses.
The little blighters are everywhere, worse than the seagulls.
So the badgers didn’t run so far away?