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Elin Jones, the Kremlin, Josef Goebbels and the Badger Trust

September 22nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Countryside, Rural and Farming, Welsh Politics

The bully-boys - and their possible grave-digging pals - of the Badger Trust have been faced down by Elin Jones and the Assembly government.

The trust has since wound themselves up into a fury because Ms Jones has refused to give the names (and the addresses?) of the TB Technical Advisory Group and Programme Board [...]

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Assembly + democracy = a badger cull

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Countryside, Rural and Farming, Welsh Politics

The fact that the English have decided not to cull their badgers will make no difference to minister Elin Jones.

Glib comments from the Badger Trust in England and from English newspapers will merely prove that they don’t know what they are talking about.

This is a devolved issue, has been for some time, and preparations are [...]

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Putting a cat among the tubercular pigeons

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Countryside

Elin Jones is swiftly getting a name as the coolest, most able and even quietly funniest Plaid minister in the Welsh government.

Updating the press on the bovine tuberculosis outbreak raging in much of rural Wales, she told of the 100 cattle recently culled from contact with the disease at the Gelli Aur farm college near [...]

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