Hunting fraternity won't get my vote
REGARDING the story Bid to rally hunt voters 'to backfire', Echo, March 30. It is not a mainstream issue because it is illegal, so we don't need to spend any more time discussing it, even though Hannah Foster, the Conservative Party's prospective parliamentary candidate in Exeter, has made it clear she would like to see the return of hunting with dogs.
However, I do hope she will distance herself from the hunt supporters who have promised to help deliver leaflets on behalf of the Conservative Party, presumably in return for some deal being struck with the party.
To be fair, like most people I know, I have no intention of voting Tory, but the thought of some chinless wonder standing on my doorstep in red jacket, blowing his hunting horn to make me vote Conservative just shows how out of touch with reality these people are.
Members of the fox hunting fraternity always said it was their issue and it should be kept in the countryside, so what business has a hunt supporter, like our Conservative candidate, got trying to be elected MP in the middle of a city?
Jaques Hughes
Alphington, Exeter
Comments
by Sarah, Surrey
Monday, April 05 2010, 11:33PM
“Weeelll... where do you start. The bloke in the "red jacket blowing a hunting horn" won't be some "chinless wonder" but a working class agricultural labourer on a yearly contract employed by the hunt. Only he won't be there because he has a job do do, still. If there is any hunt member on his doorstep it is likely to be someone who has the time to spare because Gordon and his chums have driven the farms or companies they worked for to the wall. And if you think they should remain in the countryside then you should have made sure your so-called "representatives" didn't inflict their bigoted legislation on them.”