The BBC’s news editors probably danced in glee when they decided to run with this story: a bunch of MEPs demanding more action on biodiversity. Two of their favourite causes – worship of the EU and eco-nuttery – combined in one! The ludicrousness of the EU’s latest demand for yet more power to combat yet another imaginary set of problems, is, of course, totally lost on them. Breathlessly, the feature reports that these over-paid, mainly useless MEPs include in their aims:
…eliminating subsidies harmful to biodiversity; zero net deforestation; the end of destructive fishing practices; and preventing the extinction of known threatened species.
That will be the EU that (for starters) is forcing the spending of trillions of our cash on needless climate change measures, a fraction of which – if used instead to promote sustainable business enterprise – could end help poverty in Africa; the same EU that is so incompetent and corrupt in handling money that its own accounts have not been signed off by accountants for 15 years; it will be the same EU that, throught the madness that is the CAP, forces the adoption of monocultural and rigid farming practices that are the enemy of wildlife; and the same EU that like common gangsters have bought up and plundered fishing rights off the coast of Africa with zero regard for the needs of Africans.
Of course, the BBC would not dream of discussing issues like this. Instead, the story is an exercise in admiration for both the EU and its puffed-up politicians. It’s by a veteran BBC greenie camapigner Mark Kinver, whose love of the EU is second only to his save-the-world zealotry.
Great post Robin.
Money and power and the means to gain that money and power, that in effect is what the EU scum are all about.
Biodiversity? Who are these muppets trying to kid! More rules and more power and more authority and more beaurocracy, the levers of state power and the will to use that power. They aint aquiring all this power just for fun, these people have a plan to attract as much power as they can to the centre of their dark empire and its why they are busy constructing an anti democratic monolith that practically excludes you and me.
We are the worker ants in their new world, in reality these commissars couldnt give a flying hoot about biodiversity and they propably have no idea what it means anyway.
Does “bio-diversity” include “invasive” species? And will French farmers still get their subsidies?