CAMERON CAN BUZZ OFF

.. UK Government may introduce killer pesticides

 SOHO 2 SILO is normally a politics free zone but that all changed today with news that David Cameron and his Cabinet will decide whether to allow banned bee killing pesticides to be used on fields across the UK.

SPECIAL DELIVERY: My latest colony

of bees arrived from South Yorkshire

 The major pesticide company Syngenta had one of its products banned across Europe last year because of the risk it poses to the bee population but now the firm has just lodged an emergency appeal to get the ban overturned.
 We only have a short time but if enough of us raise the roof, throw a mega strop and sign this petition: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/a-ban-is-a-ban who knows what we could achieve.
 And since I've just received another package of bees to add to my growing apiary, I want to do everything in my power to protect my honeybees and everyone else's.
 The excellent 38degrees people power pressure group says it's not just beekeepers like myself who should be concerned but all of us could be affected because in a world without bees we wouldn't last very long. Bees pollinate apples, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, cauliflowers ... in fact all fruit and veg.

BUZZ OFF! If my bees could talk that's what they'd tell Cameron

and his pals in Downing Street on Tuesday

 The killer pesticides that Europe banned are called neonicotinoids and they are linked to the decline of honeybees as well as affecting a whole variety of other creatures such as earthworms and butterflies, according to a major study that directly contradicts the UK Government’s unhelpfully relaxed stance on the use of neonicotinoids.

 When you get a group of 29 scientists from four continents saying they've found unequivocal evidence that “neonics” – the most widely used pesticides in the world – are having a dramatic impact on the ecosystems that support food production and wildlife, you'd think politicians would listen. Well the arrogant sods aren't so we've got to make them sit up and pay attention by signing the petition.

UNDER THREAT: My apiary which 

is home to six colonies of honeybees

Independent researchers, who advise the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), say that the “systemic” pesticides such as the neonicotinoids pose as great a risk to the environment as the banned pesticide DDT, and other persistent organophosphates.

 Syngenta are trying to wriggle out of the ban by appealing directly to the Old Etonians who sit in Downing Street. We all have to come together to tell the Prime Minister to uphold the law and tell Syngenta to naff off through the backdoor from whence they came!