M.Ps, are going to try and get the current Law relating to Fox Hunting, back to how it used to be.”Through the back door”.
Now I don’t mind them being Culled by a trained person, who can dispatch said Fox with a clean shot with a rifle, but it sure makes me mad when I have seen it on T.V. when the Hounds catch the fox, and it is ripped apart whilst still alive, and when the “Landed Gentry” look on and cheer.Barbaric to say the least.
What are your thoughts on this?.
Jim
Lincoln .7
By: Lincoln 7 - 21st July 2015 at 09:18
When in my old job, I worked shifts, which included nights. I too like Moggy live in a Rural area, perhaps even more Rural than where he lives, and I mst say in nearly 30 yrs, I have ever seen just 2 Foxes.
Jim.
Lincoln .
By: atr42 - 20th July 2015 at 22:57
Hunting with dogs for sport – no thanks, dogs employed on rat duty
Shooting it if it comes sniffing around my chickens – fair game
By: MrBlueSky - 19th July 2015 at 22:04
By: silver fox - 17th July 2015 at 19:41
Speaking as part of the rural community I think you’ll find 5% are very pro-fox hunting (usually the horsey set), 5% are vehemently anti (usually incomers), and 90% couldn’t give a toss if it’s banned or legalised.
Moggy
In my neck of the woods we find it’s mainly those moving to the country who wish to take up “country” pursuits along with a few who wish to carry on an old medieval practice, however as I said previously this is an arable farming area and the local farmers aren’t enthused about packs of dogs and horses rampaging about.
By: J Boyle - 17th July 2015 at 19:29
Speaking as part of the rural community … 5% are vehemently anti (usually incomers),…Moggy
My farm-owning friends outside Canterbury report the incomers make it life difficult for the long-time residents.
They made planning approval for a new potato shed a nightmare. The shed is necessary for them to earn a living (and keep the UK in crisps), but the newcomers, many of which only spend the weekends there, want everything to look like a chocolate box-ideal rural community.
Next they’ll want mandatory thatched roofs and horse drawn wagons.
By: Meddle - 17th July 2015 at 17:32
Have you heard Ms Black speak?
By: Tonk - 17th July 2015 at 17:01
Gosh. No wonder they were sports teachers.
By: Meddle - 17th July 2015 at 16:06
Cameron knew exactly what he was doing, and the SNP did exactly what he expected them to.
The whole thing had s0d all to do with foxes or hunting, and everything to do with seeing which way the SNP would jump when it came to voting on English laws.
The Tories have re-mastered the game of politics. Trust nothing. Everything is done for a reason.
Very cunning if correct. However nobody up here has noticed, apparently, as they are too busy watching that dull inauguration speech from Mhairi Black. the 20 year old Sports Science student that took Douglas Alexander’s seat.
She reminds me of some of my old PE Teachers.
“Ah’m here cos yous hae got hunners ae poor cunts usin’ they food banks ken?”
By: Moggy C - 17th July 2015 at 07:29
I would like to see the actual support for this medieval practice among the rural community.
Speaking as part of the rural community I think you’ll find 5% are very pro-fox hunting (usually the horsey set), 5% are vehemently anti (usually incomers), and 90% couldn’t give a toss if it’s banned or legalised.
Moggy
By: silver fox - 16th July 2015 at 20:00
Silver FOX with a name like FOX, do you have to keep an ear out for the Hounds when out for a stroll in the Country?…….:D
Jim
Lincoln .7
Why do you think I’m opposed to fox hunting?….:D
By: Bruce - 16th July 2015 at 08:47
That is what he would like you to think, and the spin his friends in the press are giving it. I am not convinced. As has been said before, when it is a toss up between c0ck up and conspiracy, it is usually a c0ck up.
Its all too easy to focus on the small battles. Fox hunting doesn’t even register – he has done his bit to appease the countryside alliance, and can now blame someone else for it not going through. It will end up as one of those bills for which they run out of time at about this point every year.
Keep your eye on the big picture – and remember the old ‘Its a good day to bury bad news’ story from 9/11. This is a bit more subtle, but its no different. Keep the public busy with things like this – AND give them the odd pyrrhic victory to make them feel worthwhile, and get on with the real job in the background.
Me? Cynical? Hell Yeah.
By: Lincoln 7 - 15th July 2015 at 20:31
Silver FOX with a name like FOX, do you have to keep an ear out for the Hounds when out for a stroll in the Country?…….:D
Jim
Lincoln .7
By: silver fox - 15th July 2015 at 19:48
That is what he would like you to think, and the spin his friends in the press are giving it. I am not convinced. As has been said before, when it is a toss up between c0ck up and conspiracy, it is usually a c0ck up.
I feel Cameron was pandering to the “country” set hoping to sneak amendments through the back door, we know the Countryside Alliance are vociferous on this subject, but I would like to see the actual support for this medieval practice among the rural community.
Certainly many are definitely anti-hunting and the hunts themselves are finding that many landowners are barring them from land previously hunted over.
By: trekbuster - 15th July 2015 at 11:22
Cameron knew exactly what he was doing, and the SNP did exactly what he expected them to.
The whole thing had s0d all to do with foxes or hunting, and everything to do with seeing which way the SNP would jump when it came to voting on English laws.
The Tories have re-mastered the game of politics. Trust nothing. Everything is done for a reason.
That is what he would like you to think, and the spin his friends in the press are giving it. I am not convinced. As has been said before, when it is a toss up between c0ck up and conspiracy, it is usually a c0ck up.
By: AlanR - 15th July 2015 at 10:51
It’s straight from an episode of “Yes Prime Minister” 🙂
By: Bruce - 15th July 2015 at 09:58
Panic over, Cameron’s chickened out when he realised the whole plan was going down like a lead balloon, however I believe the dastardly plan is to reintroduce the “amendment” when the Scottish MPs have been stopped from voting on “English” laws.
I grew up in the country, am very much a country lad, but this was an arable farming area, the horse riding fraternity were not always welcomed or even tolerated, particularly when they seem to think a grain field in spring was a nice bit of new grass to gallop on or feed for their horses, someone came up with the bright idea of fox hunting, it didn’t go well.
Cameron knew exactly what he was doing, and the SNP did exactly what he expected them to.
The whole thing had s0d all to do with foxes or hunting, and everything to do with seeing which way the SNP would jump when it came to voting on English laws.
The Tories have re-mastered the game of politics. Trust nothing. Everything is done for a reason.
By: Richard gray - 15th July 2015 at 00:40
Horse hunting……brilliant…I’m up for it, that…..and cyclists.
John Wayne’s the man you need for the cyclists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeijLNHzyRo&feature=youtu.be
By: John Green - 14th July 2015 at 20:35
Crumbs !! I wondered why each slice looked pre toasted.
By: paul178 - 14th July 2015 at 20:10
John Wonderloaf became extinct in 2012 so if you have any left in your freezer I suggest you give it a decent burial in your bin.
By: silver fox - 14th July 2015 at 20:08
Panic over, Cameron’s chickened out when he realised the whole plan was going down like a lead balloon, however I believe the dastardly plan is to reintroduce the “amendment” when the Scottish MPs have been stopped from voting on “English” laws.
I grew up in the country, am very much a country lad, but this was an arable farming area, the horse riding fraternity were not always welcomed or even tolerated, particularly when they seem to think a grain field in spring was a nice bit of new grass to gallop on or feed for their horses, someone came up with the bright idea of fox hunting, it didn’t go well.
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