Poll: Should the Hunting Act be repealed?
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Following the revelation that the Conservative Party wants to repeal the Hunting Act because members fear they could lose half a million votes to UKIP otherwise, tell us:
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Opponents of fox hunting should be pushing for the Hunting Act of 2004 to be updated rather than repealed – you can’t reintroduce fox hunting when it’s still going on!
‘The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable’ – Oscar Wilde
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/558/585/956/tell-cameron-not-to-relax-fox-hunting-ban/
43,619 and counting……
Personally having been a rural dweller all of my life, I find both fox hunters and anti-foxhunters equally obnoxious. (For different reasons I am NOT going to expand on.)
My real life experience of dealing with problematic foxes, is the farmer’s dog always killed a fox before I had time to load two cartridges into a 12 bore let alone fire it.
They think that this will lose them half a million votes to Ukip? What a larf. They are going to lose a lot more votes for the policies, the lies and the deaths that they have caused over the last 4+ years.
Yet another excuse to bring in a toffs “sport”.
The fox hunting ban needs to be made more enforceable and police should arrest any-one who takes part in any way.
Unless gatherings of horse and hounds are banned enforcement is impossible.
Where I live 13 police officers are not going to stop 4 hunts plus followers (At least 2000 people in 4 different areas at the same time and on the move,) when they have never been able to stop an illegal rave at a fixed location.
Frankly illegal raves are far more of a problem locally than hunts are.
(Please read my earlier contribution before thinking about ripping my head off.)
I think it needs re-DRAFTING so all the loopholes are filled in, not repealing.
I want the right to hunt Tories.