Websites like this are necessary to expose the recalcitrance and obstinate lunacy of bureaucratic institutions like DEFRA.
It's important to have independent media to hold people to account. Blogs have been the modern version of 19th century pamphleteering for a couple of decades. It's an important means of creating public awareness, covering the key political, social, or environmental issues and they are written to influence opinion and bring about change.
The draconian measures introduced by DEFRA to deal with non-existent problems created real ones.
- Prior to DEFRA’s involvement, annual inspections were being carried out and found no evidence of any widespread systemic animal abuse in our sector.
- As far as we know no minister has ever announced a policy allowing DEFRA to seize control of any sector of private business.
- So it appears that a team of ill-informed bureaucrats decided to create a policy based on fabricated reasoning and then through multiple layers of incompetence managed to achieve the opposite of their objectives.
As you will already know if you’ve been reading along, there are always perspectives and contradictions to be explored:
And with DEFRA in mind, we bought and run an independent business and contribute to the State through taxation. So I don’t want my business to be ruled by any idiots of State or by State decree.
DEFRA look down on us because we’re in service to other people’s companion animals, while those making decisions for us have spent their entire careers pandering to those with wealth and power - which is why they’re so bad at everything.