More Fishy Business

It takes a certain something to achieve environmental conditions slightly worse than when a climate change denier was minister for the environment; but whatever that something is, the British Conservative Party has it. The quantity of plastic litter on the sea-bed has been in long-term decline since a personality-appropriate peak under the Reverend Blair, and for the past three years it has consistently fallen. Last year, all that came undone, with one and a half times as much litter found as in the previous year. Quite aside from mere environmental concerns, litter in the sea causes damage to fishing equipment and harms the profits of fisheries; so it is just possible that the jabbering homunculus now heading the Department of Environmental Deregulation and Degradation may have to take back control, draw another red line in the sea and permit only our European enemies to fish in Imperial waters.