Jimmy Hill showed us all just how shallow he really is with his comments about foxhunting (September 7).

He confirmed what we have all known is the truth by saying: "The attraction of hunting isn't that foxes get killed... hunting is one of the most exciting things I've done in my life."

If the thought of killing an animal is not what turns Jimmy on, why does he not support drag hunting as the way to fulfil his apparent need for excitement?

If Jimmy is the best the Countryside Alliance can come up with, I don't think we need be too concerned.

However, the tone of Voice Of The Argus most definitely was of concern. It has been a long time since I have read such a distorted view of the facts concerning hunting.

Maybe the author did not read the piece in The Argus earlier, which reported the findings of a study into the fox population over the period of a ban on hunting as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreaks.

The report concluded that no increase in the population of foxes occurred, which supports the fact that foxes naturally control their own levels of population.

The Voice also naively tried to imply that MPs, who have voted on more than one occasion overwhelmingly to ban hunting with dogs, are all townies, somehow out of step with "real" country people who, it maintains, are all behind hunting.

Wrong again, as opinion poll after opinion poll has the majority of the rural population in favour of a ban on foxhunting.

Finally, as for the countryside march in London, I feel sorry for all the genuine people who live in rural areas and want to air their concerns about real issues that affect them in the countryside and who have been railroaded into a laughable sideshow aimed at protecting the bloodlust of wannabes such as Jimmy Hill.

Hunting is cruel and unnecessary and so are the people who support it.

Neither Jimmy Hill, The Argus nor the Countryside Alliance will stop a ban being introduced.

-Norman Rayner, Crabtree Lane, Lancing