Well, obviously there was a small amount of concern about what the metropolitan media elite like to call a ‘hate crime’, but to the rest of the country is little more than slightly over-zealous use of a badminton racquet in a manner not envisaged by the manufacturer.
Still, you have to admit it was a damn fine shot and – apparently – the highest ever recorded altitude achieved by a stickleback, or - for that matter - any aquatic creature. Unfortunately, though, it didn’t quite reach the altitude gained by a newt back in 1975, when launched from a catapult in Godalming, so that record still remains to be broken.
Although, there is some dispute among experts and political activists about where a fish and an amphibian should be classed together or whether they should have separate categories; hence the concern in some areas of the media that this is an attempt by a Tory (of course) government to instil a prejudice against amphibians in general and newts in particular.
Many in the Left-Wing press - and at the BBC - see this as blatant anti-newt propaganda put about to discredit the Left, for as we all know one of the great darlings of the British Left is well-known for his deep interest in newts and where they, and other amphibians, stand in the political spectrum.
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