All I want for Christmas is…

Here’s a Christmas sing-a-long for all our readers (to the tune of Maria Carey’s xmas hit, ‘All I want for Christmas’) –

I don’t want a lot for Xmas

There is just one thing I need

Permission to kill native raptors

Give it to the men in tweed

We just want a licence to cull

Use a stick to crush their skulls

Oh make my wish come true

Baby all I want for Xmas is to kill a few

I won’t ask for much this Xmas

I don’t want a lot of presents

All I want is to kill the raptors

So we can shoot a lot more pheasants

Poison them with tainted bait

Won’t take long to seal their fate

Oh make my wish come true

Baby all I want for Xmas is to kill a few

I don’t want a lot for Xmas

This is all I’m asking for

And even if the answer is ‘no’

We’ll still kill them, that’s for sure

Bury them in rabbit holes

Nobody need ever know

Oh make my dreams come true

Baby all I want for Xmas is to kill a few

(repeat ad nauseum until all raptors are dead)