Frank debates on fox hunting vital
HELEN Weeks lambasts the Home Secretary for discussing fox control while 'doing nothing' about gun control laws, Hysterical reaction to attack by a fox, Saturday June 19.
However far from "doing nothing" Britain has some of the tightest gun control laws in the world. Moreover, I understand that Parliament is to be given the opportunity to debate the subject once police investigations are complete.
As for urban fox culling, I too would oppose some mass cull of urban foxes — but surely it is only right that there is a public debate on this matter so that all views are considered.
In a similar vein there is opposition in anti-hunting circles to further debate in Parliament on the Hunting Act.
However, a recent opinion poll showed that more people support there being such a debate than do not.
Being able to hold frank debates on such issues is essential to our democracy.
Giles Bradshaw
Rose Ash
Comments
by Timothy, London
Friday, November 26 2010, 10:46AM
“The Hunting Act is a joke, Tony Balir just recently revealed in his memoirs that he purposefully sabotaged the bill to create loopholes in it.
Britain is a society that wants for nothing, so concerns of those too detatched from life itself rise to the surface. But the Act will be repealed, maybe in the second parliament, of which this nonsense will end.
There will always be hardcore monitors but the vast bulk of support will melt away with no legislation to back them up, public more in tune with the countryside and saboteurs creating a bad name for themselves!”