Radical Measures

While having a bit of a burble about seagulls, Britain's Head Boy has suggested an unprecedented break with normal Westminster policy. There have been several reports of gulls attacking pets, which have naturally resulted in calls to control the gull population, since controlling the human and/or pet population is clearly out of the question. In one case the gulls belonged to a protected species: an example of environmentalist red tape which will certainly grate on the delicate sensibilities of those among Daveybloke's party colleagues whose idea of good clean fun is to watch a pack of dogs rip a fox to bits. Asked about the issue on BBC Radio Cornwall, Britain's Head Boy burbled that seagulls were certainly a problem, and hinted that the solution might lie in culling the creatures and vandalising their homes, much as the Conservative Party likes to do with other biological inconveniences such as badgers and proles. So much is purely routine, of course, even down to the echt-Blairy blather about a "big conversation"; but - in a startling reversal of the Government's standard procedure on health, drugs, prisons, poverty and, last and least, the environment - Daveybloke also proclaimed that the people who need to be listened to are the ones who understand the issue.