How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

[bluethrunthru]

or we could just..stop eating animals.

Great idea - we can start grazing on the grass in the fields - we will just have to kill all the livestock first. Any suggestions as to how to dispose of all those bodies?

 

[bluethrunthru]

I take it Bonehead is one of those stepping down at the next GE and this is just some sort of performance art

 

[Saddleworth2]

Making rivers cleaner…..

Pesticides and fertilisers running off fields have devastating impacts on the flora and fauna in these vital, faltering ecosystems – poisoning fish and insects, causing huge algal blooms sucking oxygen out of the water, and, during times of drought, turning rivers into highly concentrated chemical cocktails in which nothing can live.
Researchers have now provided alarming new detail on the “far-reaching implications” farm waste has for our waterways, with rivers around the UK’s factory farms awash with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The report, which is the first of its kind in the UK, detected superbugs in rivers and waterways in areas with high levels of factory farming.

Two common bacteria that can cause infection and illness in humans and animals are E. coli and S. aureus.

Antibiotic-resistant strains of both were found in rivers adjacent to pig and chicken factory farms, as well as in slurry runoff from intensive dairy farms.

The research by World Animal Protection, Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has prompted “urgent calls on the UK government for a ban on the routine use of antibiotics on healthy farm animals”, the organisations said.

Samples were collected in areas around the UK with high levels of farming including Sussex, Norfolk and the Wye Valley, the latter of which has made headlines recently due to the enormous level of pollution from chicken farms causing high levels of nitrates and phosphorus and creating ecological dead zones.

The research team said that an estimated 80 per cent of all farmed animals in the UK live on factory farms.

“These farms’ squalid, cruel and cramped conditions force the need for wide-scale preventative antibiotic use – without which those animals would not survive.”

They warned that superbugs from factory farms which flow into rivers are then able to reach people in many ways, for example, in drinking water, during swimming and recreational activities or the consumption of fish from contaminated waters.

“Unless the government takes action, the UK faces a human health crisis whereby disease can no longer be treated due to antibiotic resistance,” they said.

Lindsay Duncan, farming campaigns manager at World Animal Protection, said: “Our report shows that our rivers are awash with superbugs.

“The World Health Organisation has estimated that antibiotic resistance will be the leading cause of death globally by 2050, with a total economic cost of £66 trillion – this is a human health crisis.

“We are calling on the UK government to act now, to raise welfare standards, prevent suffering and ban routine preventative use of antibiotics on farm animals.”

She added: “If the welfare of farm animals was improved, there would be no need for this dangerous and unnecessary use of antibiotics that is such a threat to human health.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/envi...2-80-99-health-threat-study-finds/ar-AA14ogGU

Our rivers are the filthiest they have been in decades. After such hard work to clean them up it’s really tragic.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

or we could just..stop eating animals.

Just have to avoid the human shit being poured into the rivers and seas then.

 

[bluethrunthru]

then there was the business case - fuck business eh?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Our rivers are the filthiest they have been in decades. After such hard work to clean them up it’s really tragic.

Read this and weep. Imagine Starmer will be genuflecting to big business rather than mention this next Wednesday.….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-63681034

 

[Gabriel]

I take it Bonehead is one of those stepping down at the next GE and this is just some sort of performance art

Pity sake. How can Mordaunt stand at the box and say Brexit has allowed the UK to deepen its trading relationship with the EU?

Don’t think Bone is standing down, alas, though it’ll be interesting to see if the citizens of Wellingborough return him. He’s made very little go quite a long way and while he is a prominent speaker, he very rarely says anything of substance.

 

[Gabriel]

then there was the business case - fuck business eh?

Will be interesting to see whether we’ll see more such admissions from businesspeople. I would imagine that many have felt almost bound to say nothing about Brexit over the last couple of years for fear of being branded unpatriotic and for fear that speaking out might lose them business. With the conversation becoming increasingly open, however, they might be more comfortable telling the truth and calling it out. What is more, there may come a time down the line where those businesses with dual operations (one in the UK and one in the EU) will compare the profits of each and decide that it’s no longer worthwhile operating in the UK’s smaller market.

 

[peter.evans]

Pity sake. How can Mordaunt stand at the box and say Brexit has allowed the UK to deepen its trading relationship with the EU?

Don’t think Bone is standing down, alas, though it’ll be interesting to see if the citizens of Wellingborough return him. He’s made very little go quite a long way and while he is a prominent speaker, he very rarely says anything of substance.

He is an absolute tool !

 

[Gabriel]

He is an absolute tool !

He’s one of these peculiar MPs who has worked with his wife to make the role into something like a small, family business. In that respect he is no fool, but when you actually listen to him speak in the House, or worse still being interviewed, you soon appreciate that there is precious little going on upstairs. That said, perhaps it’s no bad thing to have someone like Bone in the House as he probably represents what many English voters think.