But what really pi55es me off is to read that last year we imported large numbers of ash trees from the countries which we already knew had the problem. Like when we imported that pig disease from China.

What are the civil servants doing? As an island we could easily take the same line as the Aussies and have serious bio protection systems at the ports. But what do we do? Sod all.

Our real government problem is that government in the UK is ineffectual at best and incompetent at worst.