I, like many MPs that were uncomfortable with the bootiful Bernard Matthews payout this week, couldn't help thinking back to the summer of slaughter during Foot and Mouth. It was also 'uncomfortable' to see the apparent glee with which MAFF (now DEFRA of course) set about slaughtering millions of livestock using dodgy science. This sort of thing has typified the Blair era, although that's another story.
Not Foot and Mouth, but equally ridiculous was the story of David Dobbin, as told by Chris Booker in the Sunday Telegraph recently. This poor chap lost £500,000 worth of livestock, his entire herd I believe, with not a sniff of compensation.
Bernard got £600,000. All this while he is allegedly under investigation for breaches of bio-security!
