{"id":21801,"date":"2015-06-26T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2015-06-26T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:06:19","slug":"the-badger-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-badger-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The badger boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tory Party clearly haven&#8217;t thought the repeal through<br \/>\nBlood sports are in many thoughts<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not what people do<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s negative, it&#8217;s cruelty exposing blood for fun<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s baseline enmity really<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s not what should be done<\/p>\n<p>To actually lower standards<br \/>\nTo appease the countryside<br \/>\nIs a futile foolish gamble<br \/>\nWhich is seen far and a wide<br \/>\nThe badger is historically<br \/>\nOne of the nocturnal knights<br \/>\nSome 40&#8217;000 live here<br \/>\nAnd should have all their rights<\/p>\n<p>Cattle introduced here<br \/>\nIn the CAFO farming style<br \/>\nAre noisy unnatural filthy sheds<br \/>\nThat truthfully defile<br \/>\nThe animals contained therein<br \/>\nAnd the countryside around<br \/>\nCompared to the friendly badger<br \/>\nBetter value pound for pound<\/p>\n<p>A very sensitive creature<br \/>\nAllied to the moon<br \/>\nBehaviourally aware of it<br \/>\nAnd very much in tune<br \/>\nThe new moon brings him energy<br \/>\nTo mate to fight to be<br \/>\nTo leave his scents around the place<br \/>\nMore often we can see<\/p>\n<p>His diet chiefly consists of<br \/>\nEarthworms off the ground<br \/>\nHe doesn&#8217;t like to pull them out<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the earth perhaps he has found<br \/>\nNot so very tasty<br \/>\nWell anyway prefers<br \/>\nTo eat them cleaned of grime and loam<br \/>\nAnd that is what occurs<\/p>\n<p>He rarely drinks his water<br \/>\nComing straight out of the food<br \/>\nHe likes a bit of rabbit<br \/>\nOn their lean legs oft chewed<br \/>\nAnd a wealth of other crawly things<br \/>\nSeems to attract his stare<br \/>\nAnd he likes the odd mushroom<br \/>\nTo compliment his fare<\/p>\n<p>As to the British Government<br \/>\nFalling for the joke<br \/>\nOf badgers causing TB<br \/>\nThe farmers they did soak<br \/>\nThe public with this futile crap<br \/>\nAnd saw the badgers shot<br \/>\nGassed and just run over<br \/>\nFor their place here it&#8217;s not<\/p>\n<p>The farmers and their poaching friends<br \/>\nApparently they so<br \/>\nLike killing all the animals<br \/>\nIt makes their dreams come true<br \/>\nThey have no bloody idea<br \/>\nAnd do not wish to share<br \/>\nThe land that they were born on<br \/>\nEvery bloody where<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shared with bird and wild one<br \/>\nThey give this country charm<br \/>\nNot the bother boys and the terrier men<br \/>\nAnd hunting in the palm<br \/>\nOf so called bloody huntsmen<br \/>\nTory voting chums<br \/>\nWho ride their horses on other people&#8217;s land<br \/>\nWith their sore bums<br \/>\nTheir countenance is objectionable<br \/>\nSo you either have to be happy when they destroy your land<br \/>\nOr harm others actually<\/p>\n<p>Blood sports are antiquated<br \/>\nPassed their sell by date<br \/>\nThe Tories are a bunch of twerps<br \/>\nLeaning on the gate<br \/>\nHoping that the countryside<br \/>\nComes up with votes so they<br \/>\nCan cut our fucking child benefit<br \/>\nAnd then be on their way<\/p>\n<p>Friendly with the corporates<br \/>\nThe bankers and the rest<br \/>\nWho keep their workers on<br \/>\nTheir hourly contracts<br \/>\nJust to test<br \/>\nTheir abilities to live without<br \/>\nSome help from governments who<br \/>\nShould think about the children<br \/>\nWho may vote for them too<\/p>\n<p>Blood sports are the anathemA<br \/>\nThey are evil through and through<br \/>\nTaking foxes and badgers and hare out<br \/>\nJust will not do<br \/>\nGoing around with shot guns<br \/>\nKilling deers and rabbits they<br \/>\nAre a bunch of loonies<br \/>\nWho really should now pay<\/p>\n<p>A price which is that blood sports<br \/>\nAre banned for ever here<br \/>\nTell the queen and her family<br \/>\nThey do not bring us cheer<br \/>\nShooting birds and rabbits<br \/>\nKilling hen harriers<br \/>\nTo<br \/>\nprotect the quail and the shooting toffs<br \/>\nIs not what they should do<\/p>\n<p>Do not repeal the hunting act<br \/>\nLeave our countryside alone<br \/>\nLeave the badgers our beautiful tribe<br \/>\nFor the seeds that you have sown<br \/>\nAre causing people stress and grief<br \/>\nAnd the wild feral souls<br \/>\nNeed to be safe where they were born<br \/>\nWithout the hunting trolls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tory Party clearly haven&#8217;t thought the repeal through Blood sports are in many thoughts It&#8217;s not what people do It&#8217;s negative, it&#8217;s cruelty exposing blood for fun It&#8217;s baseline enmity really And 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