Wednesday 29 June 2016
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| Agapanthus doesn't seem to care either way! |
I think it’s a great shame that we are exiting Europe and interestingly a number of people that I know voted to go are now regretting it. One could only wish they had thought a little more before they had voted. I think we may live to regret it. I hear also that many young people are furious about it, and feel that we have let them down. We should have done what Scotland did and give this vote to 16 year olds as well, at least they might have understood the importance and bothered to vote. Shame on any of you that did not vote.
The exit certainly immediately closes
a door for us at ICBP because it means we can no longer apply for grants from Europe to
do our conservation work. It will probably mean that moving birds to other collections within Europe
or to us here for fresh blood lines will also become much more difficult and expensive. One of my staff has just lost his house sale because of the exit and I gather that selling houses in London right now is a nightmare.
I do wonder if people think that all those immigrants that
are living near Calais are now going to turn round and try to go somewhere else
– somehow I doubt that, in fact it would not surprise me if France just let
them through!
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| Wild Red Kite over ICBP |
Will this lead to the breakup of the UK, possibly. Watch out now for another Scottish referendum on leaving the
UK, if they do they will win this time. So I hope all those who voted to leave are
going to be happy about that, again I suspect not. Will Northern Ireland do the
same I wonder.
I am glad I went to that meeting with CITES in Brussels last
month because I doubt I will be able to do that again, we won't have any voice or influence with European CITES now because we won't be Europe.
I repeat – what a shame and imagine the world with the two
blond men in the running now, Johnson and Trump – good God what a disaster!
Will the American's vote for Trump, you would hope not, however I think the problem there is that having had a black president they will not want to go straight to a female one. There would have been more chance of that later. I can just see the Southern men (and women) saying 'we can't have a woman president'!
Will the American's vote for Trump, you would hope not, however I think the problem there is that having had a black president they will not want to go straight to a female one. There would have been more chance of that later. I can just see the Southern men (and women) saying 'we can't have a woman president'!
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