MADNESS OF TORY GOVERNMENT - BADGER CULL COSTS £7,560 EACH - Updated 22 Feb., 2018

Update 22 Feb., 2018 -- PM May signed a new extension of Badger cull to spread it even further.  

Update 9 April, 2017
The Government now extend the cull of Badgers to Wales and other England counties.
There  must be more in that Method of Madness of the Government? Most probably money for their pockets. 

Update 20 Dec.,2016 --
A new report revealed that 10,000 badgers had been killed this year. Guess the cost.

Money is always available for what the Tory Government wants to do but not for the poor and disabled.

Update: 11 Aug., 2016 --
The cull has now been extended to Gloucestershire

A report in the Daily Mirror revealed the real cost of the badger cull last year. It was twice as much as the Government makes us believe, as always.  The original estimated cost of £3,350 was actual £7,560.

Altogether there were 588 badgers shot dead and it cost the taxpayers £4.49million.

So far the Tories calmly spent £16.7million and killed 2,449 since 2013 since badger cull was started again.  This boils down to £6,850 each animal. The figure includes £2.5million for the delay in 2012 which is even more baffling that a delay would cost £2.5million. How do you make that out?

Referring back to the Tories’ austerity introduced at the same time and yet they are happily spending £16,7million on a badger cull of which people objected from a star

 They also want to bring back fox hunting but with the win of Jeremy Corbyn as a strong Labour Leader it is doubtful now. It was Labour to ban fox hunting.

The Elite and Tories had always loved hunting sports throughout the centuries. 

However, they surely must realize that times and people outlook have changed.

The cull, so far, was only allowed in Somerset and Gloucestershire which makes you wonder what the cost will be if it is expanding across England. Already there are plans to include Dorset to kill 2,038 badgers this year.  It will then escalate to £12million.

Badger Trust chief Dominic Dyer said: “Based on costs of badger culling to date, the Government could spend a further £12milliom. Not only is the badger culling a disastrous failure on scientific and animal welfare grounds, but it’s also a huge burden on the taxpayers.”

In Wales they are running a vaccination program which costs only £660 per badger. Compare this with 2,036 badger killed costing £16,7million and to vaccinate 25,000 badgers would cost £16,7million.

Do PM David Cameron and his elite ever compare costs or do they just wilfully go ahead because it is not their money. It looks that way and it is nothing but irresponsibility and not doing their job they should be doing.

There is also a claim that many young badgers were made orphans.

Another accusation came up for the Government ignoring scientific evidence of which many scientists dispute that badgers are passing on TB to such an extent that a cull is necessary. 

However, the Government seems to agree with the powerful farmers’ lobby. They bound to be big landowners and therefore they are Tories and some are also donors Cameron would not like to cross swords with them and lose their support..

Another alternative would be to vaccinate the cattle which would be far cheaper and less time consuming. It had been suggested many a times before.