From Bastard Sword an extremely good fisking of hte new Animal Rights Legislation being proposed in the UK. Go read the whole thing as they say. Just one snippet as a taster:

At last, an Englishman speaks without falling ill to the political correctness that’s sweeping that fair isle. Ask not what the bugs can do for you, ask what you can do to the bugs. Put another way, don’t fuck with an Englishman in his garden.

I think he’s got that right. Giving, as the proposed bill does, rights to slugs will lose Labour the votes of the nations gardeners overnight. That and solving the West Lothian question would remove the danger of ever having a Labour government again.