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Left-wing investigative journalism site Political Scrapbook has been doing some, erm, investigation. This is the kind of stuff that only the sharpest minds can get their heads round. You will be amazed.
Snuffling round records of government expenditure they have come up with an extraordinary finding.
Despite floods, the government is paying 100 times more to chop a tree than plant one
The British government is willing to pay people £144 per tree to chop it down and dispose of it.
Meanwhile, how much do you get paid if you plant one? £1.28 per tree.
So big, dangerous jobs cost much more than small safe ones. Who would have guessed?
