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The environment agency should be staffed from the head down by those with many, many years years of hands-on, coal-face experience in water management and rural affairs ie engineers and agriculturalists - not by time-serving metro-politicians who know nothing about their subject who are at the mercy of sentimental vested-interest groups for advice: even their own prejudices based - in the main - on ignorance. So keen are they on wildlife protection that, due to their neglect in managing the flood plains in the Levels, they have now practically wiped out almost all wildlife on the Levels and local rivers in the last 2 months. Own-goal, or what. Not to say, 5% of the country's food-producing land for possibly years. You know, that stuff we need to eat to stay alive which is produced by all those 'lucky' people who live with acres and acres of land necessary to produce it.
Do they want to increase the country's carbon emissions by making it necessary to fly/ship in more food due to their flagrant lack of respect for, and understanding of,the countryside and its inhabitants?