12th August Hey Ho Let Geronimo Go!!

Open today's newspapers and it's often difficult to know just what cause to champion, what issue of the day to campaign for or even against, what social injustice to try to fight. 

Trying to decide whether to throw your weight behind issues of climate change, food poverty, fighting modern day slavery or FGM is a dilemma that would have contestants on Radio 4's The Moral Maze flummocksed. But those ethical nightmares pail into insignificance compared to the cause of a lone alpaca called Geronimo.

Whilst the UN’s code red for climate extinction has caused many to furrow their brows, it has failed to strike a cord with the same urgency as the plight of a poor alpaca that has done nothing apart from catch Bovine TB, which is supposed to be meant for cows. Even the sire of our current PM, Stanley Johnson, (well I assume Boris is his) has jumped on the bandwagon of support, whose wheels must be creaking under the weight of celebrity protection and protest.

Speaking to Grace Under Pressure, continual cause crusader, Ivan Issue, explained “People don't see that the these various concerns are inextricably linked. If we don’t act on climate change immediately then its quite possible other alpacas will die, probably burned to death in the subsequent forest fires. Many of them might also be named after famous native American Indians, I'll have to check that out later, and then it not only becomes an animal rights concern but a racial issue too. And noone wants that do they? "