Westminster Wildfire Policy Madness

Westminster wildfire policy madness

Westminster wildfire policy madness FieldsportsChannelPodcast, episode 144 youtu.be/_D_4q0gvQwY Nobody is in charge of preventing wildfires. That’s the charge Andrew Gilruth of the Moorland Association levels against the Westminster government. Successive government failings mean the fires we see raging in the UK’s uplands can be stopped months in advance, if only there were the political will. […] The post Westminster wildfire policy madness ap…

Andy Burnham fails to put out Manchester wildfire after two weeks but luckily, unlike the one the Cairngorms, it’s neither ‘apocalyptic’, the fault of any government nor is it due to the absence of helicopters

For a reader in Scotland there are quite a few things missing in the above BBC Manchester report two days ago: Wildfires across Greater Manchester are still burning a fortnight after they first started, the fire service has said. More than 100 firefighters and volunteers have been tackling the blaze on two fronts at Dove Stone, after the fire in Saddleworth merged with a fire at Tintwistle, and at Swineshaw. Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Se…