‘The paper holds their folded faces to the floor,
… and every day the paper boy brings more’ – ‘Brain Damage’ – Pink Floyd
I hope that I can give you an example here. The county elections – in my individual case Kent county https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kent+england&qpvt=kent+england&form=IGRE&first=1 ‘Please vote for us’ leaflets have now started to arrive; adding yet more paper waste to that heaping up on the doormat anyway each day.
Pauline is an animal buddy who’s photographs you can see on this site – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/?s=pauline
Pauline is also a volunteer animal rescuer for the Greenwich Wildlife Network – a charity founded in 2018. For overseas visitors, Greenwich is an area of South East London. Pauline often tells me, Mark, about many of her rescues; and the wonderful network of the volunteers available.
I do not know Rae personally, but in Pauline we have a mutual friend – and an interest in helping / saving animals in need which all of us share. There is one issue in particular which we all have concerns about – CATAPULTS – particularly when used by youngsters to maim or kill wildlife.
The use of, and resulting terrible suffering caused by catapults on animals is detailed in the following newspaper article by Rae. Here she does a overwiew of daily rescues resulting from the use of catapults,
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/young-people-killing-london-wildlife-b1218708.html
I personally produced a post on this site recently which was directly associated with the same issue; the use of catapults by youngsters on innocent British wildlife. It is almost always the wildlife rescuers who have the task of dealing with the results of catapult usage; dead animals, dying animals or injured animals.
Catapults and their availability to the general public –
w.amazon.co.uk/s?k=catapult&crid=LUU2A3P4WFK3&sprefix=catap%2Caps%2C149&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_5
So, here we are back at the start again; local politics, county elections etc. As the title says they are after your vote, but once elected, they do not generally give a damn anymore. So lets all work together to try and change that; respond to them by phone, e mail etc and TELL THEM, no changes, no vote. They usually do not really give a damn about animal issues; but YOU, AS A VOTER, DO; so lets see them as potential politicians give a damn for once.,
We wish to see immediate changes from all those posting these current election papers, and more importantly, from those in power as OUR political representative MP’s, to take this issue much more seriously; to give the national county police forces the time and the money to take wildlife catapult killings more seriously; as THIS ISSUE IS NOW BECOMING A SERIOUS ONE.
Further, the social media platforms need to constantly check, and instantly remove where necessary, all people and posts associated with this issue – social media talks the talk about ‘controls’ when it comes to issues such as this wildlife killing; but in my personal opinion, these so called controls are about as useful as a chocolate fireman. Social media needs to step up to the plate and act; seriously act, to close down everyone and everything who lives in ‘sickoland’.
The British public support us and our cause; it is as usual the people in power, those who have the ability to implement real change, who are failing to listen once again. So with elections round the corner we can smile at them and say, ‘IF YOU DO NOT TAKE ACTION ON THIS ISSUE, A CONCERN OF MINE; THEN YOU DO NOT GET A VOTE FROM ME’. Simple,
They are supposed to work for you; so make them do it.
Regards to you all – I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon – Mark.
Further information
National Wildlife Crime Unit NWCU
Kent police – Reporting wildlife crimes
https://www.kent.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/wc/wildlife-crime/
World Animals Voice 