DEFRA have continued to pretend that everything they did was perfect years after the incompetence of their work had been exposed.
For example:
- DEFRA officials had no scientific resources or professional advice and so made up arbitrary numbers throughout the legislation.
- DEFRA created an unworkable rating system that relied on two imaginary standards of animal welfare when there’s only one standard of care and that’s determined by the business owner for each and every individual animal in our care.
- DEFRA introduced time wasting measures and pointless paperwork that raised costs, reduced profits and syphoned off time spent on enrichment and animal welfare.
- DEFRA wrote regulations that were not subjected to any feasibility or impact assessment because if they had, half the pages would be blank.
- DEFRA officials copied and pasted from existing documents and the regulations were rubber stamped because they weren’t even proof-read before being codified.
Any government department incapable of keeping their own house in order is not fit to tell anyone else how to run theirs.
- These foot-dragging and useless bureaucrats have done nothing to rectify their mistakes.
- They are pretending that failing to consult with anyone in our sector was a reasonable decision.
- They are pretending that the consequences of writing regulations for an industry they knew nothing about is somehow not their fault.
These regulations have given rise to multiple local authority licensing officers carrying out thuggish and indefensible attacks on individuals and our business sector. DEFRA needs to explain how licensing officers acting under their mandate across the country could bungle dozens of inspections if DEFRA’s regulations were not at fault.
When challenged by anyone, local authorities are known for their blatant disregard for truth and pointless procedures - but for once they came up with a reasonably non-fictional assessment for their own failures; everything was DEFRA’s fault. However, public credibility is short-lived because in every newspaper report local authorities blame the cattery or kennels because deflection, misdirection and responsibility avoidance are the primary goal of every local authority employee wanting to escape accountability.