Not Quite Twigged

Patriots with a pragmatic disdain for pettifogging bureaucratic distinctions between wood and trees will rejoice at the oaken-headed Britishness of His Majesty's Government's approach to woodland regeneration, which has proceeded in a manner worthy of the famous trading nation that voted to cut loose its own biggest market, as well as of the ruling class that will do anything for public health, public transport and public education except use public money to sustain them. A nominatively determinated environmental foot-soldier has discovered that the Forestry Commission is providing grants almost exclusively for planting new trees, without troubling itself about woodlands which are already mature, more diverse and better adapted to their local conditions. In keeping with Team Starmer's Trumpster-appeasing ethos, doubtless the diversity was the problem; and in keeping with the ethos of Change™ a spokesbeing responded to the possibility that too many trees are being planted with an assurance that the Government is committed to planting more trees.