'Little Georgie Moonbat' wants to kill all the 'sheepie-weepies' - the swine!

So, today the situation remains the same here at D&N in that I am writing on a subject about which I know nothing - well, I wouldn't want to startle you all with some expertise!  Anyway, I gather that 'little Georgie Moonbat' (lGM)is running a campaign against nice, cuddly 'sheepie-weepies' on account of their disgusting habit of eating anything that grows!

 

 

I am relying on Ms. Camilla Smith at The Coffee House for my information and according to her, 'lGM' wants all the sheep slaughtered (including all those lovely little baa-lambs that gambol so prettily for me as I drive past every morning on my way to the swimming pool!) but especially those that chew their way across the highlands of Britain.  Apparently, 'lGM' wishes to return all that highland countryside back to Mother Nature so that trees will cover the hills again because, and this is his main point, trees and their roots soak up heavy rainfall better than anything!  Well, given the flooding we have suffered this year I suppose, to quote the oft' chanted cry, 'something must be done'! 

The problem is that the 'something' will be decided and implemented by government - yeeeeees quite! - and will be interfered with by Brussels.  Perhaps the worst problem will be that the mouth-dribbling, swivel-eyed Greenies will push to have their say in what is decided and so you can absolutely depend on the wrong solution being applied.

I'm agin it!  Why? Well, I, wisely, bought a house next to a church which has not been washed away in a thousand years, so stuff the rest of you even if you have to paddle a canoe from the sitting room to the kitchen!  Second, and just as important, I love English lamb, in fact, I love to lower the car window as I drive past the gamboling lambkins and shout, "Spring lamb!" at them.  So that settles the matter - end of!

 

 

Comments

[JuliaM]

"...on account of their disgusting habit of eating anything that grows!"

The man's a cretin - that's goats!

[dearieme]

He's a bloody fool if he thinks that all our high ground will be covered by lovely broadleaved woodland. Still if we deer-fence off a decent patch (paid for from the nearly billion pounds on which the Guardian lately avoided tax), expel the sheep, and wait a decade or five, we'll see, eh?

[johnd2008]

Stupid man is about a thousand years to late.The sheep on the lakeland fells near me were started up there by the Vikings.Has he seen how deep the soil is on top of a fell? The only stuff that will grow up there is a very hardy grass and bracken.

[AussieD]

Lambs are such sweet little things - rubbed with olive oil and garlic and roasted slowly.

[Antisthenes]

Moonbat and eco-loon he maybe but on this he may have a point it is a "settled scientific fact" (which cannot be said for the reasons for climate change) that woodland does help to prevent flooding for the very reasons he gives. I am a great believer in tackling environmental problems when they are genuine, observable, tangible and measurable and flooding is. Of course we cannot have the greenies anywhere near deciding on the solution to the problem as quite rightly as you say they will come up with the wrong one. A reasoned and rational approach without eco-loon interference using technological innovation could I am sure come up with a solution that allows habitats being established so that woodlands or substitutes could be created that help prevent flooding and keep excellent English lamb (far superior to New Zealand because it is frozen during transit, no doubt fresh is equally as good) on the table.

[dearieme]

But how much of the land above about a thousand foot will support much in the way of trees? Dear God, in the Western and Northern Isles you have trouble getting trees to flourish near sea level.

[Andra]

A nice Spring lamb from Victoria is pretty damned good too!
Plenty of mixed herbs and lemon juice - Greek style. Hmmm hmmm!

[Hank]

David

Sounds like the Old West is coming to England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepshooters'_War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RdQbsa5E4ZQ

Lamb chops with mint jelly!!! UM UM Good!

[AussieD]

G'day Andra,

And don't forget lamb shanks slow cooked in the oven and served with mashed spuds, a little sauerkraut, gravy and peas.

Sigh.

[David Duff]

DM, you really must watch Hank's second YouTube link, it will warm the cockles of your Scottish heart!

Andra and AussieD, will you please stop with all these horrible lamb recipes! Lamb doesn't need garlic (pause to spit!), herbs, spices and nothing in the world deserves sauerkraut whose very name sums up its awfulness! Just leave it alone, roast it, carve it, put it next to some spuds, carrots and runner beans and cover with gravy. I will allow the ladies and the girly-men to add mint sauce if they really can't do without!

Johnd and Antis, I bow to your superior expertise in these matters. I simply start on the basis that anything 'lGM' proposes should be taken with the same sort of caution as you would have required when buying one of my old bits of 'shrapnel'!

[dearieme]

Mint bloody sauce? Really! Redcurrant jelly, my dear fellow.

[David Duff]

Jelly is for kiddie-winkies' tea-parties, DM, not for Sunday lunch! Actually, the 'Memsahib' is a redcurrent jelly fan which is why I make her eat in the garage!