I’d Comply, But I’ve No Lions To Feed The Carcasses To…

People who try to stop officials exterminating “invasive species” such as parakeets, ruddy ducks and Japanese knotweed on their property should face a prison sentence, under proposals drawn up by the Law Commission.

Given you can stick one on a bloke and walk free with a suspended, this is total madness...

The Law Commission proposed people breaking a “species control order” could be jailed for as long as six months or fined up to £40,000.

Yes, it’s that EU-driven ‘genetic diversity in native wildlife’ rearing its head again. You’d have thought the bad publicity about this concept would have taught them to keep their mouths shut, wouldn’t you?

Mind you, the police will probably be only too eager to assist with this…

The idea that plants or animals are non-native is not without controversy. In 2009, Professor Christopher Smout, Scotland's Historiographer Royal and the founder of the Institute for Environmental History at St Andrews University, said that the concept was “culturally-determined” and that attempts to preserve the genetic identity of British wildlife were “quasi-racist” .

Indeed, it’d be a concern if these laws were suggested about people, rather than ‘inferior’ species, wouldn’t it?