Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

Badger-lovers seem determined to turn into an international issue the cull of badgers proposed by Welsh minister Elin Jones in order to curb bovine TB.

[Read more →]

When rural affairs minister Elin Jones puts her leg up on a table after a briefing, things are obviously perking up down Cardiff Bay.

But she was just showing off her sensible walking shoes, in response to an earlier query from a female journalist.

Ms Jones is rapidly developing as one of the most confident [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

With the Badger Trust determined to obtain a judicial review of the Assembly Government’s decision to implement a limited rural cull of badgers as part of a panoply of measures to hunt the burgeoning bovine TB epidemic ripping though our countryside, Cardiff is entering new and difficult legal waters.
Apparently, badger-lover sites in England have been [...]

[Read more →]