Betty Roars and Mary Weeps

Hello Betty Fans,
There is no justice for Badgers. Me and Mary are lost in a pool of sadness.  Defra announced they would be shooting 64.000 Badgers this Autumn and that made Mary's eyes leak for two weeks, hence the pool of tears just like in Alice in Wonderland.. Here is a nice picture of a Badger to cheer you all up:

Mary nearly gave up the battle to save us but then she found her courage and we arranged a powerful protest outside Defra.  Rather than the usual chant:

 "What do we want"
Stop the Cull
When do we want it
Now!"

Mary did a little drama in which I, Betty Badger, played a starring role. 

It involved us all standing in absolute ominous silence, then everyone chanted my name and I came out and danced about a bit and then I got shot. It all got very messy as Mary had some red poster paint.  The other Badger called Bertie also got shot.  The best bit was when I was dying and everyone started screaming and humming and crying.  Mary roared so loud with a voice so full of rage and despair that I felt the earth move on its foundations. Mary described it as "cathartic" which means  "the purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art such as tragedy or music"  

NASA announced the discovery of a couple of reasons why the earth occasionally wobbles on its axis- Huwoman despair is another reason....

Anyway, she seemed a lot better afterwards and looked twenty years younger- this is a picture of her after her Roar with her Badger loving friends Chris and Rosie.

Meanwhile I am covered in poster paint and nobody seems to care about that. They haven't even given me a good wash. 

Unfortunately we did spill a little paint on the ground outside Marsham Street and they sent a Huwoman out to clean it up.  I thought it was interesting that they didn't get a Human to help but I guess that cleaning up is a female's work rather than important Humen's work because they are always so busy of standing around chatting. When Mary saw the Huwoman this week, she thanked her for cleaning up after us. 

We did some speeches and here is a picture of Mary talking to the assembled throng wearing something that looks like me! 

I think the most remarkable thing about the picture is that Mary can actually still bend her knees, and get up again.  She is really old and will be 65 Huwoman years in a couple of days time.

One funny thing that happened was Extinction Rebellion were also having a protest at the same time, about us eating the earth.  We eventually got out of the way and let them do their drama which was all about how what we eat affects the planet. I am not sure that Badgers eating Worms will have too much impact on Global Warming.  They had a table and a waitress and diners but, best of all, they had Cakes.  These Cakes were supposed to look like the earth, but I have never seen the earth as a blue and green ball- I thought it was flat.... But who cares

When no one was looking Bertie and I ate the earth and it was delicious.  

We got a picture in The Guardian which is said to be a paper of news that compassionate people read.  Lots  of my signs are in the photos.  I'm glad my spelling is improving...

As I am writing, hundreds of Badgers will already be dead.  Their families will be sad, wondering where they have gone. They will guess it is something to do with this flash bang sticks that roar during the night. 

As I said, we both nearly gave up trying to stop the killing and Mary took to her bed and wouldn't talk to anyone for a couple of weeks.  Last week her eyes leaked so much when we were outside Defra  that Mrs Villier's driver and the nice Security man Bob were worried about us.  Several of our Defra friends, said, "Don't give up Betty". 

But no one beats Betty so, last night, Mary bought her train ticket to Man Chester to the Conservatory Party Conference on Monday.  It cost her £150 for the Virgin train fare but I said it was worth all that money because they are such lovely trains that look like Badgers.  

We are so excited.  We are going up when Mrs Villiers is giving her talk and Mary has asked her MP Grant Shapps if we can meet her.  Mary said something about flying pigs, but I am not sure what she was talking about.  Mr Shapps once said to Mary, "What is an intelligent woman like you worried about a few Badgers for?" Mary told her local paper about that....  This is Mary's MP . 

 
As usual we went on our Defra vigil again this week and we met lots of wonderful Hupeople who are so angry about politicians behaving like children over Brexit .  They are busy playing games and are not dealing with important things like stopping Cow TB by vaccinating cattle, or all the Huperson misery in the Country. One Huwoman stopped us at our train station and thanked Mary for trying to save the Badgers.  Mary wears clothes that say "Stop the Cull" and have pictures of a nice Badger.

We met another Huwoman outside Defra and she wants to be Mary's friend and may join us in our Thursday vigils.  She is very angry about the Badger Kill-Cull

Another interesting Huperson we met is from The United States of America.  He is a Wisconsin Badger.  They are very active Badgers and play a game called Football and lots of other games running around chasing balls. Here is a picture of a Wisconsin Badger. 

He was a very friendly Human as are most Americans except those who like shooting their friends and neighbours and wildlife.  

Mary has been busy tweeting on Twitter.  She is not really sure how to do it but she seems to have a few people following her.  She is @badgeradvocate .  She got very angry with Tony Juniper, the  new head of Natural England.  He used to be the head of the Wildlife Trusts and said he loved Badgers but now he is the man that signed the paper to kill 64,000 Badgers this autumn.  Mary says he should resign.  When he said how increasingly popular Natural England was with the general public Mary tweeted that he was deluded. 

While we were outside Defra this week we were waved at by who Mary thinks was George Eustice, the Farming Minister.  He is the man that wants Badgers to die. 

Lots of important Hupeople are angry about the Kill-Cull.  One of them is Alick Simmons who used to be the Deputy Chief Vet at Defra. Another one is a vet and former government agriculture scientist called Iain McGill.  He made an impassioned speech and accused Defra of scientific fraud.  

What I really want to know is, if all these clever scientists think the Kill-Cull should not go ahead, then why is it? Who is the person who is making this happen?  Who is the evil genius with great powers of persuasion causing this to happen? I think we should all be told. I think it might be that Human I have met going into Defra who said 120.000 dead Badgers  is not enough.  He said he wants ten times that many to die. 

I must tell you some more exciting news.  Me and Mary are giving a talk on Tuesday.  Here are the details.  Of course, we might get kidnapped in Man Chester.   Here is the poster:

Oh, Mary has just announced that she will give me a good wash to get the paint off before we go to Man Chester on Monday.  We don't want people up there to think Southern Badgers are dirty. 

I am sue I will have lots of exciting adventures to share when I get back.

Night Night

Betty 🐾🐾🐾