Congratulations to Owen Patterson, the Secretary of State for DEFRA, who has come out with one of the all time great nonsense quotes of our time (via Patrick Wintour):
“I am not moving the goalposts. The badgers are moving the goalposts.”
Damn those crafty goalpost shifting badgers…
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