Without the EU, the environment would suffer greatly: or so we are told by EU-funded organisations like the WWF and the RSPB. So let’s briefly focus on just one of the invaluable conservation projects on which the EU thinks it’s important to spend our money. As the Sunday Telegraph reported, the EU has funded a five-year £1.25 million project to encourage little terns to breed. This involves getting schoolchildren to paint plaster of Paris bird models with the right grey, black and white colouring. The fake terns are then placed in pairs in appropriate spots during breeding season, with the male’s and female’s beaks pointing inches apart as if they were courting one another. Sue Rendell-Read, the manager in charge of the project, said: “We are using the decoys to try and get the little terns to nest in safer places on the beach. This may be areas within fencing, which we put up during the breeding season, or areas higher up the beach, which we know will be safer in the summer.” Ms Rendell-Read urged members of the public not to touch or steal the decoys, many of which have the name of the school child who painted it on the bottom. Yes, that would be