theyre at it again

Thu, Dec 4, 2008

The landed crowd and their forelock tugging minions have been busy in Angus, killing a Sea Eagle and Buzzard. How the romantic notion of the noble gamekeeper surveying his land, knowing every inch of it, its environment and lore, takes another hammering. These days the gamie is more likely to resemble a mobile pharmacy, pockets full of Carbofuran and Bendiocarb, intent on wiping out anything that doesn’t produce cash when blasted by the blunderbuss of a chinless inbred moron. Yet again, the landed gentry have been proved to be incapable of being termed custodians of the land. While the lobotomised media slaver and howl over the OMM debacle, they say nothing about landowners lacing the hills with illegal and highly dangerous poisons. Will we find out who did this? Will they be brought to justice? Will the landowner and its trusted sidekick ever be consigned to the pages of clearance history, from whence they crept?