"So here we have a department staggering around like a drunkard with a loaded machine gun, assuring us that "it'sh perfectly shafe." The people who should be defending the natural world have conspired with the manufacturers of wide-spectrum biocides to permit levels of destruction which we can only guess. In doing so they appear to be engineering another silent spring."
Unbelievably, the government's view is supported by the British Beekeeping Association.