Cameron's idea of relaxing day out
DAVID Cameron is talking about a quick repeal of the Hunting Act.
Whatever 'spin' his friends, and some elements of the media, try to put on it there is only one reason he is desperate for the return to legalised mammal hunting. It's not because the majority of the public want it. Repeated opinion polls have proved that a larger number of the population, (both urban and rural), are opposed to legal dismembering of live animals in this day and age.
It's not because there is a need for chasing and killing animals to protect other animals. Apart from well embellished, tired old stories, there is no need for such behaviour. So called 'pest control' measures exist — even though the need has not been proven, and more time and money put into better husbandry would be more profitable in the long term.
It's not because the countryside has come to a halt because of the Hunting Act. According to its own reports, the Countryside Alliance is thrilled its numbers are higher than they have been for years.
So it makes no sense to repeal it, does it? Well, it does if, like David Cameron, you and your friends' idea of a relaxing day is not complete without chasing and killing another animal. The rest of the population have to obey the laws, even if they don't like them: David Cameron, and friends, don't agree with this so they plan to change the law. Never mind if the majority of the country doesn't agree.
Mrs Y Street
Saddlers Way,
Okehampton,
2 Comments
by Auntykill, County Durham
Saturday, November 28 2009, 3:31PM
“Mrs Street is correct, what right has Cameron to decide, against the majority of public opinion, that because he and his countryside alliance mates miss the kill at the end of the chase then the hunting ban shall be repealed? And do you really want someone like him in a position of power, one who would make it his very absolute top priority, ahead of health provision, education, law and order and poverty, to overturn a ban that is well established, that has not led to the mass unemployment in the countryside, nor the death of thousands of hound that we were threatened it would be the cause of. What regard does he hold the British public in if he listens to what we say and then goes and does his own thing anyway. We hear of corruption whichever government is in power, but this man and his party are showing their corruption even before one vote is cast. He needs, to use a buzz phrase: "To take a reality check, the ban is there, we want it to stay there, so get over it and move on!"”
by JKendall, UK
Friday, November 27 2009, 10:18PM
“There is absolutely no justification for a return to hunting with hounds.
It exists purely to satisfy the bloodlust of the participants.
These people are a disgrace and must not be allowed to repeal the law banning this repulsive activity.”