Charlie StrossMar 5, 2024

Tory MP calls for "all wild animals" to be culled:

“Because if they don’t their health deteriorates. They don’t have any predators in today’s world. Foxes, deer, badgers. We don’t want to wipe them out, we just simply want them controlled.

“This is just pure common sense.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/richard-drax-beavers-badgers-cull-b2506916.html

(I think we could sensibly start by culling the implausibly-named Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, MP. )

Tory MP calls for ‘all wild animals’ to be culled

The MP also raised the case of ‘a beaver being released illegally… in west Dorset’

The Independent
Show threadRachel A. Rosen
@cstross Was about to ask if this included Tories.
Mar 5, 2024 at 12:53pmWeb
Show threadBen HardillMar 5, 2024
@youseeatortoise @cstross I believe a culling of Tory MPs has been proposed for later in the year. The question is just how close to being wiped out they will get...
Show threadRachel A. RosenMar 5, 2024
@ben @youseeatortoise @cstross I wish your country all the best with that!
Show threadAnton P. Nym (aka Steve)Mar 5, 2024
@youseeatortoise @cstross Clearly one is badly needed, given that they've overgrazed their territory and are clearly ailing as a result.
Show threadRachel A. RosenMar 5, 2024
@AntonPNym @youseeatortoise @cstross that’s what happens when you have a lack of competition for ecological niches. We’re having the same problem here.
Show threadCharlie StrossMar 5, 2024
@youseeatortoise @AntonPNym I think we should re-wild the Speaker's Gallery in the House of Commons with Pacific Tree Octopi—the subspecies who get at the coconut meat that constitutes the majority of their diet by cracking the nuts open on the rocks below the treetops.
Show threadRachel A. RosenMar 5, 2024
@cstross @youseeatortoise @AntonPNym as an aficionado of cosmic horror who turned the Canadian Parliament into a mass of screaming mouths in her first book, I support this wholeheartedly.
Show threadCharlie StrossMar 5, 2024
@youseeatortoise @AntonPNym In book 8 of this series I had the UK cabinet taken over by crotch-eating extradimensional brain control parasites: but we work with what we've got, like the octopi, right?
Show threadRachel A. RosenMar 5, 2024
@cstross @youseeatortoise @AntonPNym needs must, etc.