MORE flannel from Mr B Johnson, this time of the green variety. He’s come up with an impassioned plea for governments across the world to commit to biodiversity and protect endangered habitats. Yes, unbelievably.
This from a leader who on his own patch is quite happy to see the uprooting of natural woodlands and associated wildlife to accommodate HS2, just as more business is being done online, making the justification for the project increasingly untenable.
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And this from the leader of a government which, within days of Brexit, has chosen to abandon agreed EU legislation and allow previously banned pesticides, neonicotinoids, for use on crops, with likely fatal impacts on bees and other pollinators.
The man does not grasp the concepts of credibility and principle and needs to be removed, or in Scotland’s case abandoned together with his cronies.
Roddie Macpherson
Avoch
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