Why don't they start with the b/millionaires hunting animals for fun and trophies? Oh, wait sorry, they make donations to your party.
UK Foreign Sec BoJo asks tech firms to save endangered species
UK Foreign Secretary and Beano* character wrought in flesh, Boris Johnson, put tech boffins and conservationists in a room together today and asked them to come up with a way of combating illegal wildlife trade. Representatives from the likes of Google and Amazon were regaled with stories from the Zoological Society of London …
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Monday 4th June 2018 17:33 GMT wolfetone
Problem is those very people pay to go to these reserves, the same ones as you see other people go around on safari on, and they are allowed to shoot the big game on these reserves. However, there are rules. They can only shoot the elderly or the sick animals so that the rest of the other animals can thrive.
I don't like that any more than you do, but I don't think for a second those animals could be kept on those reserves without that money. Because they pay a lot more than 4 tourists in the back of a Hilux do.
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Monday 4th June 2018 20:15 GMT handleoclast
Confusion with NHS policy
sick or elderly animals? I think you're confusing this with NHS policy. Who do they pay the money to? They get guns, hire a guide and go shoot to their hearts content. I'm pretty sure there aren't any rules.
We'd all better hope Jeremy Hunt doesn't read that. Do you really want him to fund the Tory party by selling tickets to millionaires so they can shoot sick and elderly NHS patients?
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Monday 4th June 2018 17:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
Are trophy hunters a big part of Tory party funding? Whilst I'm sure you can find examples, I suspect this is still a tiny minority, probably of individuals who don't even live in the UK.
But what about governments busy running extermination programmes against wildlife to protect the interests of farmers? For example, the War on Badgers, currently presided over by that most disgusting of vermin, Smeagol Gove.
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Tuesday 5th June 2018 12:31 GMT Nick Ryan
Re: Dennis the Menace and Lord Snooty.
I was wondering earlier today what kind of *ist people voted this blight on society into any position of influence. NE Somerset... that probably explains it. One of the most blighted parts of the UK due to government policies and profiteering voting in a criminal*.
/sigh
* If any non-politician said what he says, they would be up on hate charges by now.
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Monday 4th June 2018 19:07 GMT TheProf
Lord Snooty.
He has a couple of stories in my Beano Annual 2011.
You might not recognise him though, he's been given a modern makeover. (No top hat, no tailcoat etc.) In fact he looks just like a young Futurama Philip J. Fry.
The addition of a saucy French maid, Fifi, is the only redeeming feature.
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Monday 4th June 2018 18:17 GMT SVV
Beware of the reptiles
Johnson said: "I've just come back from the Amazon, one of Earth's natural wonders, where both animals and people are suffering at the hands of criminals who are committing horrible wildlife crimes."
He continued : "Next week I will be visiting the Google, where I hear criminals are also causing horrible human suffering, followed by the Facebook, who I hear are worst of all".
And then what? Will he be asking Netflix to solve global warming, or maybe even persuading Poundland to find ways of ending a few regional conflicts?
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Monday 4th June 2018 19:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Ok Boris...
Let's see if I can help...
*Struggles to move the heavy private sector war chest out of the way, tries to shut the lid, but can't, takes his government grant tin off the shelf, blows out the dust*
Yes, yes...just as I thought...buttons, fluff and a reminder from HMRC about IR35.
It seems I can't help, because you don't really want me to. Do you Boris?
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Tuesday 5th June 2018 17:35 GMT Teiwaz
Re: Give him a break
Give him a break
This may be completely pointless, misconceived and intended purely as a publicity stunt BUT no-one was offended, jailed or executed as a result, so on balance it was a diplomatic triumph.
I'm not sure not panning politicians for idiot timewasting, and just on damage caused is necessarily good, you'll spoil them.
I think he might benefit from being parented by one of the two pepperpots (or preferably both) from Monty Pythons Art Gallery sketch.
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