House purchase next to a farm.

[DonkeyApple]

Equus said:

dickymint said:

“Britain’s great crested newts are facing a less certain future post-Brexit as ministers prepare to axe rights afforded to them by European legislation in a bid to speed up development projects.

So fake news, basically?

Great Crested Newts (and their habitats) will remain protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act, just as they have been since 1981.

The EU Habitats Directive is irrelevant (which is doubtless the real reason it is being axed, and the reason nobody else has even bothered reporting it), as it does not afford any protection not already afforded by the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and it wasn't introduced until 1992.

The Wildlife and Countryside Act said:

...a person is guilty of an offence if intentionally or recklessly—

(a) he damages or destroys any structure or place which any wild animal specified in Schedule 5 uses for shelter or protection;

(b) he disturbs any such animal while it is occupying a structure or place which it uses for shelter or protection; or

(c) he obstructs access to any structure or place which any such animal uses for shelter or protection.

Back to Google, I'm afraid, old boy. Better luck next time.

Without the common sense and stabilising rationality of the EU I suspect that post Brexit it won’t be things removed from protection but more and more things added. The Great British Mentalists will be lobbying for types of grass and mud to be protected and the feeble little group of rules for hire schmucks in Westminster will be adding them without any external force to stand in their way.

That’s the unfortunate aspect of Brexit. Many people talk about getting control back but it’s going to transpire that they are in fact taking control away from the large, same and reasoning group and handing it to a group or parochial, pathological fknuts.

People will eventually wake up to the fact that it was those hideous EU rules that were keeping violent and malignant groups like the RSPB and RSPCA under control and that these mentalisists will be off the leash soon.

[Atlas 12v]

smifffymoto said:

I would imagine fruit is alot more profitable than pork and less work.
I would be mindful of what fruit is grown and how much insecticide and what is sprayed if the house is right next to the crop.

This was a concern on the list but it's organic so assume they wouldn't risk their status to sneakily spray fruit steroids.

[dickymint]

Atlas 12v said:

smifffymoto said:

I would imagine fruit is alot more profitable than pork and less work.
I would be mindful of what fruit is grown and how much insecticide and what is sprayed if the house is right next to the crop.

This was a concern on the list but it's organic so assume they wouldn't risk their status to sneakily spray fruit steroids.

Organic! They probably use pigs ste

[C Lee Farquar]

dickymint said:

Organic! They probably use pigs ste

And spraying under the cover of darkness!