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I’m glad to note that the Badger Trust is getting things wrong over the Assembly government’s plans to deal with the epidemic of bovine TB.

The Midlands and Sussex-based trust brazenly boasted in a press release that was headed, ‘”I have NOT decided to cull badgers,” Elin Jones admits in Wales.’

Now, we fully realise that the English may not fully understand what powers the Assembly possesses or how it works - it’s indeed difficult enough for Assembly reporters and AMs.

But there’s another matter to consider, as well. That would involve reading through plenary and committee session reports to see precisely what the minister has decided.

If the organisation’s badger expert who speaks from the Midlands of England was to do that - and then to understand what he has read - he would see that the issue is far more complicated than the trust believes.

It seems as if a lot of the trust’s current membership and legacy income is being wasted on a judicial review which is on its way to being thrown out.

Precisely because no culling decision has yet been made !

If you had given Cambria Politico a ring - and then sent a cheque, because I am a journalistic freelance - I, or many of my friends, could have told you precisely that within minutes of Ms Jones finishing her statement.

The Assembly, its ministers, civil servants and lawyers are not as twp as some organisations in England think we are.