Sharpshooter

What was the point of leaving the EU, and going it alone, if we are still bound by rules in the countryside that were cooked up in Brussels?

Alasdair Mitchell

Defra’s notorious diktat about releasing pheasants within 500m of land that has an EU conservation designation raises a number of questions. For a start, why is any EU designation still extant in the UK after Brexit? One answer to that is that our politicians chose to retain almost all EU-derived environmental legislation. An alternative answer is that Defra and other parts of the civil service are infested with officials who were always determined to keep as much EU red tape as they possibly could. They have woven it into a sort of comfort blanket. It provides them with safe jobs and lavish pensions. Buzzard culling The irony is that many European hunters and farmers, operating under exactly the same EU regulations, have been allowed to do things that would never even be contemplated…

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Shooting Times & Country (Digital) - 1 Issue, 5-Jul-2023

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