New PM and Cows and stuff....

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#1 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:32 pm

He's not having much bloody luck really, is He!!

Foot n Mouth back just outside Guildford, Not to mention all the rest of the stuff that's happened since he was given the Seat.

Bless. He may not have been elected to the chair, but by fek He's got to work now He's in it!

Samray · #2 Post by **Samray** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:44 pm

TB escaped just in time didn't he?

#3 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:10 pm

Reckon He did!

#4 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:16 pm

The foot n mouth has hit just outside Guildford, along the Hog's back.

Any ideas whether this'll affect Brands Hatch WSB this weekend? It's not that far. If They look at it, it could possibly be cancelled?
Plenty using the A3 M3 corridors, mingling with the rest of the UK in tents over the weekend, pick up and carry the disease up country?

Just a doom-laden idea.

Samray · #5 Post by **Samray** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:33 am

The 10 km surveillance zone straddles the M3, lets hope the 3 km exclusion zone doesn't grow.

Fat Harry · #6 Post by **Fat Harry** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:00 pm

Not being a fan of Gordon Brown, couldn't have haven't happened to a nicer bloke !
Lets see what he's made of !

Samray · #7 Post by **Samray** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:11 pm

He returned home from holiday....

.... in Dorset....

.....to get away from it?

#8 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:51 pm

Apparently 'the lessons have been learnt since 2001'

MY ARSE!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2686041.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2667343.stm

2003 they softened up rather than clamped down. Lessons? Did they bollocks learn them!

#9 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:56 pm

And it gets better..

Foot-and-mouth strain identified

The protection zone in Surrey has been extended

The strain of foot-and-mouth disease found at a Surrey farm has been identified, Defra has said.
The strain detected in infected cattle is identical to that used at the Institute for Animal Health, at Pirbright, three miles from the farm.

Defra could not say the laboratory was the source but has increased the size of the protection and surveillance zones covering farms in the area.

An urgent assessment of biosecurity has begun at the institute.

Read the full story here...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6931639.stm

If it didnt risk entire families' livelihoods, it'd be laughable.

Andrew Biggs, of the British Cattle Veterinary Association, said: "It doesn't surprise me greatly. The proximity of this farm to Pirbright was something some of us had noticed."

Does it surprise anyone?

Trumpeteer · #10 Post by **Trumpeteer** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:17 pm

Not me cos as an advisor to REME I was seconded to DEFRA to survey Pirbright, the regime there is shall I say "laissez faire".

Sorry OSA

Gio · #11 Post by **Gio** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:31 pm

Well I was in Guildford yesterday and it had no effect on traffic, a few closed off roads and that but the scared people were the ones manning the road blocks.

Seems it an agency that works for the government thats made the balls up. (No change there then).

BikerGran · #12 Post by **BikerGran** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:02 pm

Gio wrote: Seems it an agency that works for the government thats made the balls up. (No change there then).

Seems a bit of a coincidence that on the same site there's a company that makes a vaccine for it........ Were sales down a bit, d'you think?

Oh and as for blaming the floods - the worrying part of the statement is that 'the floods may have caused the spreading over the fields of infected material poured down the drain

Gio · #13 Post by **Gio** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:53 pm

BikerGran wrote:
Gio wrote: Seems it an agency that works for the government thats made the balls up. (No change there then).
Seems a bit of a coincidence that on the same site there's a company that makes a vaccine for it........ Were sales down a bit, d'you think?

Oh and as for blaming the floods - the worrying part of the statement is that 'the floods may have caused the spreading over the fields of infected material poured down the drain

Floods in the Guildford area have fortunately been rare, its one of the highest points in Surrey.

Even where we are (about 8 foot above the flood plain) its unlikely to affect us as most of the places between Chertsey and Kingston are lower so would flood earlier than us.

D-Rider · #14 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:21 pm

Gio wrote:
Floods in the Guildford area have fortunately been rare, its one of the highest points in Surrey.
.

Surely it can't be that high - the river Wey runs right through the middle of Guildford and that water has to come from somewhere ..... in my experience of rivers, that's usually some place higher up.

Gio · #15 Post by **Gio** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:36 am

D-Rider wrote:
Gio wrote:
Floods in the Guildford area have fortunately been rare, its one of the highest points in Surrey.
.
Surely it can't be that high - the river Wey runs right through the middle of Guildford and that water has to come from somewhere ..... in my experience of rivers, that's usually some place higher up.

The river Wey is at the bottom of the hills in Guildford.

Somwhere there is a marker that shows its worst flood (think it broke its banks to about 12 foot) plus the flood plains there all run south towards Horsham. the farms that had their roads cut are about 200 foot higher (maybe even more).

Also the Wey empties into the Thames not visa versa.