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Bloody sport

3:14pm Wednesday 24th February 2010 in


With the countdown to the general election now on, it’s worth remembering that David Cameron wants to bring back hunting.

Hunters claim the animals they hunt are pests. This is false. Foxes help arable farmers by catching rabbits, voles and mice.

Regarding any so-called threat to livestock, a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries report in 1983 studied an area of Powys stocked with 3,500 lambing ewes and found that “lamb losses were found to be unaffected by foxes present in the area”.

People who hunt do so for one reason: for the pleasure derived from chasing an animal to exhaustion before seeing it ripped to shreds.

A Conservative election win in May 2010 and the subsequent repeal of the Hunting Act would be a disaster for animal welfare.

Mark Richards
Halland Road, Brighton

Comments(6)

Mr Pickwick says...
4:17pm Wed 24 Feb 10

Regardless of one's views of hunting in general, repeal of the Hunting Act would would do very little at all to change matters. The Act was purely a smokescreen to cover up divisions in the Labour Party. It did nothing effective to outlaw hunting and things carried on pretty much as they were before after it gained Queen's assent. My betting is that the Tories will leave well alone. If they go near the issue at all, it'll be in a second term.

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bug eye says...
4:20pm Wed 24 Feb 10

I do not think you will find David Cameron wants to bring back hunting. Would you rather 5 more years of nannying, failing schools, dirty hospitals, mass immigration, high taxes, rich and poor divide getting wider, more wars, more spin lies and bullying, more waste, why do you think gordon brown has tried to be ousted 3 times by his own party and many other ministers resigned. you would not vote for any party if you could pluck out one policy you did not like or agree with but generally come on open your eyes, or have you been brainwashed too.

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Masterchav says...
4:52pm Wed 24 Feb 10

Cameron hasn't said that he "wants to bring back hunting", nor that he will repeal the hunting act...

All he's said that there will be a free vote on it at some point if the Conservatives win.

That is all.

Scaremongering?

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Charlotte Vere says...
5:03pm Wed 24 Feb 10

Thank you Masterchav,

I could not have put it better myself. And for the record, if elected as the MP for Brighton Pavilion, I will not vote in favour of the repeal of the Hunting Act.

Kind regards,

Charlotte Vere (Conservative Parliamentary Candidate Brighton Pavilion)

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yorkie44 says...
7:09pm Wed 24 Feb 10

What is wrong with Hunting? It is part of our tradition? Only the disease ridden old foxes get caught. Let the rich have a bit of fun. Considering there is a lot of talk about not telling people what they can and cannot do, such as what Muslims can wear, we seem to have a lot of rules about what people cannot do.

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Number Six says...
1:29pm Thu 25 Feb 10

The country's going to Hell in a hand cart and what's this idiot worried about. Foxy-Woxy!

For the record I'm not a supporter of hunting but, right now, it wouldn't be in my list od priorities

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