If we factor in all of the Tory prime ministers since 2010, it's like they've each taken £20 each from our wallets (thanks to austerity, Brexit, generalised incompetence, and outright insanity), and now Sunak thinks we should be grateful because after losing £100, we're getting £5 back. And you just know he's going to get really tetchy when no one appreciates the gesture.
We had an injured one outside my house last summer. Some local kids kicked it to death literally while I was on the phone to the RSPCA to find out if it could be helped. Kids suck.
Herring gulls are LC globally, but are now on the red list for the UK-specific bird conservation list (and amber for Ireland), due to the massive decline in population here. For black-backed gulls, it's amber and green respectively, so they're not as badly affected, but their UK population is still in decline. Whether a local population is worth protecting when a species is doing okay globally is a matter of some debate, of course, but I feel we would have lost something as a country if we didn't have seagulls anymore, regardless of whether the rest of the planet has them or not.
A friend lost a pasty to one last year in St Ives. Having lived in St Ives for over 40 years, and being warned by the bakery to guard his pasty closely, and holding it close to his chest as he walked out of the shop. It just swooped right in, grabbed it, and flew off with it. Kinda got to admire the seagull that's able to steal a pasty from a dude with extensive experience protecting his lunch from seagulls.
Seagulls are more endangered than people think they are, though (red listed in the UK, population decline of over 50% in the last 40 years), in large part because humans took all their food. I think a fair trade might be that they won't steal our chips if we don't steal their fish? You know, rather than pointless animal cruelty. Fuck this dude.
Now that is a brilliant idea!
The fun thing is it wasn't even hard to find pictures of Sunak looking tetchy! 😀
Rishi Sunak got really, really tetchy with Keir Starmer in PMQs on Wednesday, to the point of basically yelling at Starmer on the final question, which was "will you join me in wishing the country a merry Christmas?" Sunak then spent the entirety of the rest of the week tetchily denying being tetchy. It doesn't help that it's not the first time he's gotten tetchy over being asked perfectly reasonable questions.
Agreed! There's a Tory MP that needs to be removed from my constituency, and I'll cast my vote to whoever is best placed to make that happen. I'm in a historically Lib Dem area, whose vote share collapsed in 2015, and it's unclear whether they or Labour will be the best option come election time. I would rather vote Lib Dem, but if I've got to vote Labour in order to punish the Tory, then so be it.