ROCK star Brian May said he hopes the Welsh electorate will vote Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones out of office over her proposed badger cull.
Assembly Members were last night due to vote on a motion to annul the Badger (Control Area) (Wales) Order 2011 following a debate in the Siambr.
The cull aims to try to eradicate the respiratory disease in cattle herds in West Wales by killing the omnivores within a dedicated zone.
Queen guitarist May — whose hits include Save Me and Is This The World We Created? — said he was aghast that Ceredigion AM Ms Jones was resurrecting the cull plan after it had previously been thrown out in the Court Of Appeal.
He said: "The badgers are now more threatened than ever because some Elin Jones has done some tap-dancing around what she was forbidden to do by the Judicial Review.
"The graceful thing for the Welsh Assembly Government would be to respect public opinion from their own public consultation — which revealed that 75 per cent of the populace was against the cull.
"I'm aghast at Elin Jones, it seems like she is full of incredible arrogance and is on some mission to kill against all logic.
"I hope people will vote her out of office at the next election." May visited the Welsh Assembly yesterday to listen to politicians debate a motion to cancel the cull — which was proposed by South Wales West AM Peter Black.
He said he had been a longtime supporter of the issue — having attended a judicial review hearing in Swansea last year — and denied suggestions that being a millionaire rock star from England meant he was out of touch with the plight of Welsh farmers.
May added: "It's a disgrace, there's no way I could sit at home and not be here to speak out.
"How dare I come in being a rock star and be English and think that I can mess with Wales?
"Well you know, badgers don't know if they are English or Welsh."
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