Tory MP: There's a "totally different type of people" in standard-class trains

Fair play to them.

They’ve got a living to make, after all.

Nuisance animals can be, and should be, shot.

I worked with a former gamekeeper (and former poacher) once, he used to work on a pheasant farm…

…one year they shot over two-hundred foxes that were making a nuisance of themselves.

Kind of makes a mockery of the anti-hunting lobby ‘saving’ foxes.

They shot feral cats too.

With the forces embroiled in Afghanistan, the economy in the worst state it has ever been and all the other ills assailing the UK I couldn’t give a monkey’s one way or another about the repealing of the class-driven law that Nu-Labour passed in-ill drafted form to appease their working-class arm.

As long as they don’t take ages over it and it doesn’t distract from serious actions the tories can bin the law that doesn’t work or keep it. It won’t make the slightest difference to one fox either way since the law is virtually unenforced now and is hardly likely to be under any administration.

Moggy

yes

Domestic and feral cats take lots of chickens, Moggy. (no pun intended!)

Do you think they should be chased across the countryside by a pack of dogs and torn apart while still conscious?

Nuisance animals can be, and should be, shot. That’s why farmers keep shotguns, after all.

chinless wonders in red tunics.

Chickens?

….. err, foxes? 😎

All of which doesn’t alter the fact that the legislation was poorly thought out, badly drafted and unworkable. So who gives a toss if it is repealed or not?

Moggy

As a conservationist, I would be the first to agree that sometimes predators have to be culled, but you don’t have to make a bloody ceremony out of it.
Dressing up in red tunics, riding roughshod over the countryside (class distinctions rigorously upheld), fox torn apart by hounds, then snacks and champagne afterwards.
Killing living creatures for fun, pleasure, and debatable social status simply can’t be justified under any circumstances.

Why not? It was pointless class-driven legislation anyway and the fact it has proved unworkable just brings the rest of the rule of law into disrepute.

Moggy

They can go on ad nauseam about how they are a classless party nowadays, judging people on their own merits instead of who their parents were, but they haven’t changed one iota.
They have gone on record as saying that one of the first things they will do when they get into power is to lift the ban on foxhunting.
I rest my case, m’lud…

Like it! 🙂

Reminds me of this….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYY1QGK0jQ

erm, the Government want you in the car. Revenue from the fuel duty.
They tart it up with other minor tax incentives but at the end of the day, 1 litre fuel gives 60p (ish) revenue in duty and another 17.5% on the VAT.
There is also VAT on the Duty!!!!! Talk about getting kicked in the testi when your face down in the mud!

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…and the government wonder why we’re so unwilling to give up our cars and take public transport instead?:mad:

My last experience from Euston to Manchester was the on a Pendolino type ‘thing’ there was about seven first class[all nearly empty] and two cattle class[full to the Brim] , It was one of my worst ever journey’s by Rail , I was near a door that kept swishing open because people were in the standing ten deep in the door area , it smelt of ‘Poo’ from the toilets , it was horrendous , with lunatics on the phones telling where they were or had just passed continually , with the ticket collector ‘touting’ upgrades for a small fortune to first class [gradually filling up through fatigue and the will to survive] my back[side] was numb through ergonomically designed seats that were designed to be a means of torture , so that the slightest loss of consciousness meant tipping forward , my god ! those old BR moquette seats with side headrests are but a distant luxurious memory , If I’d had the readies I would have joined the steady ‘pain drain’ to first class as well , old ‘winters’ knows which side his breads[rolls in first class ] buttered….perhaps it should be called the S&M Railways and that aint ‘Southern and Manchester’ ….

Don’t you assume his thoughts aren’t shaped by MPs of all parties.
The class system is very much alive and well in the UK.

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Whilst he is a blithering idiot, he and Mogs speak the truth. I work on the train or a/c, even if it’s just clearing the inbox!

I think we’re missing perhaps the most important thing here. This gentleman is paid handsomely for his services as an MP. As far as i know he is NOT accountable for the time he spends on these duties. I don’t think he has to fill in a timesheet nor does he have to clock in or clock out.

So the point is, if he needs absolute peace and quiet to carry out his work as an MP, if he needs to be able to concentrate and devote his full attention to his most onerous duties, why then does he leave all this work to be done whilst on the train into work? Doesn’t it sound an awful lot like a school child doing theor homework on the school bus half an hour before the work has to be handed in?

I wonder how much peace and quiet he needs when claiming his £10,000 for 150 hours “work” for the Emerson Group?

Regards,

kev35