Revealed: Tories failed to do impact check before approving banned pesticide

5 comments

1. Has the conservative party ever done an impact analysis that reaches beyond their and their mate’s wallets and stock portfolios?

2. Yep sounds like them. Nearly as bad as when they banned a bee killing pesticide, as it was a popular thing to do. Then just granted exceptions to the ban each year to anyone who asked for one (up to and including this year)

   [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68025634](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68025634)

3. I’m sure one if the bribe facilitating, sorry Lobbyists people helped.

4. Is one years sugar beet crop really worth the risk of using neonicotinoid? The insecticide is used to kill aphids that spread plant viruses but saving this year’s crop at the cost of no pollinators for next year seems a desperate measure.

   The crop in question is sugar beet. Perhaps we can do without less sugar.

   There have been multiple consecutive years of emergency authorizations for this insecticide- sounds like farmers and the sugar industry have an expectation of this approval. Repeated years of the same problem isn’t so much of an emergency.

5. We spray shit like this all over the country then blame low insect (and everything else) numbers on climate change.