1/3 🧵 As we appropriately say in Britain, Stone the Crows Turns out the war on bats & newts our current Govt has rhetorically engaged in is all made up Maybe they've been listening to developers who just don't like the annoying job of looking after wildlife www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2/3 This follows widespread criticism about govt approach like this from a bunch of ecology & planning experts "The Government’s rhetoric is simply false...delays are driven by under-resourced planning authorities, infrastructure bottlenecks, & industry-led constraints" cieem.net/wp-content/u...