Have You Been Clegged!

This is a new term meaning that you have been totally betrayed by voting for Nick Clegg and his party. What did happen, well the Lib Dems in forming part of this coalition have turned their back on any claim to be the voice of liberalism. They have chosen to support the party of privilege and patronage over liberty and equality. They have treated with contempt the voters who chose to vote LibDem in direct rejection of the Conservative agenda. They have disowned those who made a positive choice to vote LibDem in order to see their policies implemented. They have betrayed the party workers who have worked hard promote the centre left of politics by rushing to the rescue of the Wealthy Tories.

Team Badger in Taunton

Another year and we are it seems still marching down the road to a massive badger cull and Team Badger fronted by Queen's Rock Star Icon Brain May is back in Taunton. This time at the Taunton Conference Center as the Brewhouse has already been culled and lies still by the River Tone.

It was a full house and this time apart from the usual speakers like Gavin Grant of the RSPCA and Brian May fronting Team Badger, we had a Dairy Farmer with over thirty five years experience with Steve Jones and guess what, there is no case for a badger cull!

Bio-security on farms and removal of the infected herds together with the vaccination of badgers with the long objective of cattle vaccine approved by the EU via a ten year road map, if we are still in the EU by that time.

Time and time again we hear the same old tired and failed lines of both DEFRA and the NFU, but they have both got it so wrong big time. We know it, the EU know of it and the general public now know how wrong it is.

A passing mention of the Countryside Alliance's fronted Middle Way group (Jim Barrington is the usual spokesperson), was made regarding the shooting of foxes. The Middle Way Group considered this was too cruel and it's best to hunt foxes with hounds (no change there), but for badgers shooting is OK, it's not cruel.

Could the Somerset badger cull be Taunton's very own bloody Hungerford?