What have Defra and the RSPB got against us?

By Western Daily Press | Posted: January 18, 2014

Yet again we hear that bird populations, particularly songbirds, are in decline.

Yet again we hear that it's all the fault of farmers. By farming more and more intensively, it appears, we are steadily driving certain species to extinction.

We know that must be true because the RSPB has told Defra it is.

And Defra, as it is currently composed – largely of civil servants who appear to have been hand-picked for their ignorance of the countryside and their dislike, if not hate of farmers – believes implicitly everything that it is told by the RSPB.

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