Sunday, September 8, 2019

Copyright in circle the Guardian the folly of "big business" and fortress Europe

A senior government source said: "As the polls show, the public do not back attempts by some MPs to cancel the referendum.
"Resignations to chase headlines won't change the fact that people want Brexit done so that government can deliver on the domestic priorities people care about like more police, new hospitals and great schools."
...  https://uk.yahoo.com/news/amber-rudd-quits-cabinet-setback-boris-johnson-202400684.html
The PM has said he will not agree an extension, despite parliament passing a law forcing him to do so.
----------------- Is that statement fanciful, In any case, all is not well on our shores, and I fear that little England shall not really do any better than that great fortress EU we are designing today,   But certainly, it shall increase competition?! Now we can wonder Whether that is indeed What is needed? You know, Do you  WWYD
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And because Europe in its current EU guise lacks  it too some 'better of a kind' governance I give you here
Last year, after a legal battle, the death of another man, Thierry Morfoisse, was ruled to have been a workplace accident linked to the seaweed. Morfoisse died suddenly while he was driving a truck transporting algae away from a beach in 2009. The head of the French Green party, Yannick Jadot, recently accused the state of covering up the risks from the seaweed with “cynicism and the law of omertà”. He said the government was too keen to protect the food industry. Protesters have targeted industry giants rather than small farmers.  [....]
In the postwar period, Brittany became the centre of French industrial farming, with the intensive rearing of pigs and chickens, but also large-scale production of tomatoes and other produce. Brittany accounts for only a small percentage of the agricultural surface of France, but produces half the country’s eggs, milk and meat. One in three people in Brittany work in the farming and food industry. The region has more pigs than people. Fears about seaweed blooming because of nitrates from intensive agriculture first surfaced in 1971.
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Sylvain Ballu, a scientist from Ceva, the local centre monitoring green algae, said the algae bloomed in specific shallow bays where light could penetrate. He said there were positive signs of nitrate levels going down, but there was no choice but to lower them further.
https://www.theguardian.com/
For decades, potentially lethal green algae has amassed in shallow bays on Brittany’s beautiful north-western coast. Environmentalists say the blossoming of unusually large amounts of green algae is linked to nitrates in fertilisers and waste from the region’s intensive pig, poultry and dairy farming flowing into the river system and entering the sea. When the algae decomposes, pockets of toxic gas get trapped under its crust — potentially fatal to humans if they step on it.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/19/heathrow-plans-mean-schoolchildren-face-illegal-pollution-levels

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