Another week, another dead cat thrown on the table by the Remain leader David Cameron. Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health but hardly a new one. It’s been urgent for at least 20 years, and the first cases of MRSA in the UK date back to the 1960s. The only urgency about this at the current G7 summit is that it makes it look like Dave’s doing something. He needn’t have bothered. If he really wants to cut the risk of drug resistant bugs rotting us from the inside out he needs to take an evidence based approach by leaving the EU. The EU is dominated by agribusiness sucking up subsidies and shovelling antibiotics down our chicken, pigs and cows. Our abattoirs have been closed by EU directives, and laws on drug control are easily flouted by big corporations. Norway, however, has done things the right way. It limits the free movement of livestock — huh hmm — and works very hard to cut antibiotic use. It also controls the human food chain. You won’t find Romanian donkey mince in Norway’s meatballs, and you won’t be shipping much live cattle through its ports either as it limits this —
Author: Jon Stanley
Aylan Kurdi: Mainstream Media Refuse to Tell the Truth about Human Trafficking
There has been extensive media coverage of Peter Bucklitsch, a UKIP member, over his comments surrounding the death of a drowned Syrian child Aylan Kurdi. For anyone who is standing or has recently stood for elected office it is essential to use moderate language when handling delicate issues. Bucklitsch failed to do that and that was his error. Not a crime, an error. Raheem Kassam has already covered this so I am going to focus on something else, something the left in Britain has found very difficult to deal with over many decades: child abuse and the complexities around people trafficking. When people think of child abuse they may think of drunken fathers beating their children, mentally unstable mothers swearing at them or a man (it’s usually a man) sexually abusing his niece. Neglect is a form of child abuse too and it can have lethal results. Putting a child’s life