Thousands support Boxing Day hunt (From The Argus)
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Thousands support Boxing Day hunt
1:53pm Wednesday 26th December 2012 in News
Members of the Southdown and Eridge hunt pass through Lewes this morning (photos Simon Dack)
Thousands of people lined the streets of Lewes this morning for the Boxing Day hunt.
Members of the Southdown and Eridge hunt thundered into the town to the applause of supporters.
They congregated in High Street outside the White Hart Hotel at 11am before heading out of the town and on to the South Downs.
The support came despite today's news there is not enough support among MPs to repeal the ban on fox hunting.
Environmental secretary Owen Paterson said hunt supporters must do more work to win around sceptics.
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY
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4:03pm Wed 26 Dec 12
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
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4:10pm Wed 26 Dec 12
HJarrs
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5:34pm Wed 26 Dec 12
inadaptado
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7:19pm Wed 26 Dec 12
sussexram40
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7:36pm Wed 26 Dec 12
george smith
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8:56pm Wed 26 Dec 12
nosolution
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9:21pm Wed 26 Dec 12
ourcoalition
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10:01am Thu 27 Dec 12
Many anti-hunt people are scared to voice their opposition due to the intimidation they receive from "thugs" in the crowd - this can be very direct, and aimed at young, old, whoever "dares" to put a different view - usually these are local residents just passing by, so not "activists". I have seen this for many years, when I lived in the centre of the town. I had to stop going as my dad was very vocal (again, a local resident), and he is the opposite of me - calm, collected, etc, until he saw the behaviour of those in redcoats - the arrogance, and so on!
If this is "tradition" then it's one we can do without....
sm7777
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10:14am Thu 27 Dec 12
Algeria Touchshriek
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10:33am Thu 27 Dec 12
Hang on so is slavery, sending children up chimneys and having wars with France.
Whilst I am actually in favour of declaring war on France, i can not help but view fox hunters with utter hatred and really (REALLY) hope they fall off their horse and break their spines.
Then when they are eating mashed pear and popping in an adult nappy a fox comes in to their ground floor bedroom and wees in their eyes!
george smith
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10:46am Thu 27 Dec 12
ourcoalition wrote:Come on you know vast numbers of the rural working class hunt, admittedly they probably don,t belong to unions nor get to wear pink, Hunting is one area where the different classes do do things together.
The report seems to assume everyone in Lewes was there to support the Tories on horseback - we were not!
Many anti-hunt people are scared to voice their opposition due to the intimidation they receive from "thugs" in the crowd - this can be very direct, and aimed at young, old, whoever "dares" to put a different view - usually these are local residents just passing by, so not "activists". I have seen this for many years, when I lived in the centre of the town. I had to stop going as my dad was very vocal (again, a local resident), and he is the opposite of me - calm, collected, etc, until he saw the behaviour of those in redcoats - the arrogance, and so on!
If this is "tradition" then it's one we can do without....
Sheffield_Tiger
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10:58am Thu 27 Dec 12
A hunt saboteur has been viciously beaten by supporters of the South Down and Eridge Foxhunt during their prestigious Boxing Day meet at the White Heart pub in Lewes, East Sussex. The saboteur was on his own in a vehicle when a hunt supporter got in through an unlocked rear door. A group of seven men then attacked him with walking sticks and he was forced to curl up to protect himself. He suffered severe injuries to his hands which he had used to cover his head. The attackers also stole an ipad, the vehicles keys and caused damage to the vehicle, including smashing the windscreen. One man has been arrested following the incident.
Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release
Why is this not mentioned? Does The Argus not consider this newsworthy?
Sheffield_Tiger
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11:01am Thu 27 Dec 12
Plantpot
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11:17am Thu 27 Dec 12
HJarrs wrote:You're right, it has been successful. The urban anti-Toffs can say that there's a law against fox-hunting (which has roped in many non-Toffs, but never mind), and because the law is unenforceable near enough, the hunts can carry on as before. Everyone's a winner.
Remember all the doom and gloom about hunts closing, jobs being lost, attack on country pleasures? It would seem to me that the ban on ripping apart foxes has been a remarkable success. I don´t think any hunts have closed. People are still able to enjoy a trot in the countryside.
Incidentally, I do wish the pro-hunt people would stop talking about pest control and just admit the whole thing is enjoyable. Man is a hunting beast by nature, it's what we were born for. Why do you think the armed forces are popular career choices?
Algeria Touchshriek
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11:29am Thu 27 Dec 12
"Incidentally, I do wish the pro-hunt people would stop talking about pest control and just admit the whole thing is enjoyable. Man is a hunting beast by nature"
I agree with this bit but man hunts for FOOD not for bloody sadistic pleasure.
Fox hunters are beneath paedophiles. and they're pretty low.
george smith
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11:57am Thu 27 Dec 12
Algeria Touchshriek
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1:22pm Thu 27 Dec 12
Fox hunting IS NOT pest control
Do people in Rent-O-Kill get pleasure from killing rats? No
Do they plan it in advance and dress up in god awful garb and blow whistles and horns? No
Do they wipe the blood of a rat on the face of a small child? No
In a way fox hunters are child abusers because they often nurse a semi when rubbing foxes blood on small boys faces. True!
Oh, I forgot because I eat meat and would kill a rat in my kitchen, I obvioulsy love and appreciate the torture in the name of pleasure of a poor defenceless fox.
Ridiculous.
Plantpot
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3:06pm Thu 27 Dec 12
Algeria Touchshriek wrote:Of course fox hunting controls the fox as a pest.
Pest control is necessary errrrrr, to control pests?
Fox hunting IS NOT pest control
Do people in Rent-O-Kill get pleasure from killing rats? No
Do they plan it in advance and dress up in god awful garb and blow whistles and horns? No
Do they wipe the blood of a rat on the face of a small child? No
In a way fox hunters are child abusers because they often nurse a semi when rubbing foxes blood on small boys faces. True!
Oh, I forgot because I eat meat and would kill a rat in my kitchen, I obvioulsy love and appreciate the torture in the name of pleasure of a poor defenceless fox.
Ridiculous.
I suppose the question is how to kill them otherwise? Shooting? Trapping? Gassing? Poisoning?
Any which way you look at it, all the above offer an opportunity for a slow death if not done properly.
Plantpot
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3:09pm Thu 27 Dec 12
Sheffield_Tiger wrote:What did they do to provoke such an attack?
In actual news, an anti hunt protestor was hospitalised, a vehicle was vandalised and property stolen.
A hunt saboteur has been viciously beaten by supporters of the South Down and Eridge Foxhunt during their prestigious Boxing Day meet at the White Heart pub in Lewes, East Sussex. The saboteur was on his own in a vehicle when a hunt supporter got in through an unlocked rear door. A group of seven men then attacked him with walking sticks and he was forced to curl up to protect himself. He suffered severe injuries to his hands which he had used to cover his head. The attackers also stole an ipad, the vehicles keys and caused damage to the vehicle, including smashing the windscreen. One man has been arrested following the incident.
Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release
Why is this not mentioned? Does The Argus not consider this newsworthy?
PorkBoat
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1:14pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Cash Cow
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6:01am Mon 31 Dec 12
Plantpot says...
2:32pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Nothing to do with fox hunting of course, it's all about class-warrior MP's sticking it to the "Toffs". I suspect fox-hunting is more egalitarian than the make up of the Commons.