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British blood, flood and Boxing Day blues

9/1/2016

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Boxing Day, the pinnacle of the fox hunter’s calendar and the Countryside Alliance (CA), that bastion of all that’s wrong in the countryside, began proclaiming the day as ‘massive’ for hunting with over 300 hunts parading, and thousands of supporters.

The Master of Fox Hounds Association (MFHA) who was a little more modest in its claims, stated 33 hunts had tuned out.

Chocolate box scenes of gentlemen (and women) in scarlet jackets with a sea of hounds surrounding their horses paraded in town squares across merry England. This neo-feudal scene of distasteful support for a cruel sport was trumpeted as a huge success by the hunting fraternity, although they were careful to keep the hunt bully boys, the terrier men, with their spades, nets, quad bikes and dogs in little boxes, well out of sight.

The pro-hunting press was full of pictures of bucolical splendour with rosy cheeked children playing with the hounds whilst the Hunt Masters and general rag tag of hangers on got high on stirrup cups and the buzz of impending slaughter.

The hunt saboteurs were there too of course, and after the ceremonies they followed the hunts to ensure they kept within the law; a small army of heroes who know full well the cruelty and the sadism behind the spectacle. The sabs were out in force to protest, but also to protect the vulnerable animals and where possible to save lives.

Tim Bonner, the recently appointed CEO of the Countryside Alliance, who never misses a chance to abuse those against blood sports, or to complain that the hunting Act is not worth the paper it’s written on, took to Twitter to proclaim that Boxing Day 2015 proved that hunting was more popular than ever. Meanwhile, the Southdown and Eridge hunt in Lewes, Sussex, was one of several hunts treated to an angry display of anti-hunt protesters with banners who kept up the chant ‘Only scum kill for fun’.

Further north, in urban and rural areas people were trying desperately to rescue their possessions from the rising flood waters of swollen rivers which had burst their banks.  Fire crews, police and the RSPCA were out helping to save lives both animal and human. The Countryside Alliance, who profess to support rural communities were nowhere to be seen. Not even a tweet from those self-styled guardians of the countryside on the subject of the devastation and the plight of farmers and their livestock. Where were they all? They were too busy supporting the hunters, and bemoaning the fact that even with all of their influence in Westminster they still hadn’t managed to bring about repeal.

The CA took another body blow when George Monbiot of the Guardian newspaper and Dr Mark Avery, consultant and expert in ornithology and natural history, suggested that the flooding was due to the bad management of the grouse moors above cities and towns. Hebden Bridge, in West Yorkshire, was one of the areas badly affected by floodwaters pouring off  grouse moors where ancient peat bogs had been damaged and acres and acres of old heather burned to produce young heather shoots (the favourite food of grouse chicks) ready for next seasons IN-glorious 12th. Grouse shooters are charged with having a big part to play in causing the flooding by ruining the ground which would have soaked up much of the run-off water. For good measure they were also blamed for poisoning soil and water with their lead ammunition.

So worried are people about the floods and the destruction of moorlands that a ‘Ban the Burn’ group has been set up nationally. Dr Avery, who spoke at one of the meetings in Hebden Bridge, said there can be no compromise; protection of the upland environment cannot co-exist with driven grouse shooting. He has predicted that driven grouse shooting will come to an end within the next 20 years.  He believes the continuance of this sport is unsustainable, illogical and harmful to wildlife and the wider environment.

Many MPs, across all parties, agree with the experts and they are not afraid to say so publicly. The Blue Fox group (Tories against blood sports) have amassed the support of a whopping 50 Tory MPs who are opposed to fox hunting.
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The Sports Minister, Tracy Crouch is particularly vocal against killing for entertainment, and with a growing army of opponents the poor old Countryside Alliance who, in spite of the bluster, are floundering in a shortage of funds and a lack of enthusiasm for their blood thirsty pastimes, can only fight back with smears and insults.  

Tim Bonner took to Twitter again in a flurry of annoyance and accused Ms Crouch of having a sugar daddy in the form of Dr Brian May; Dr May is an important campaigner against fox hunting and the British badger cull.

With so many MPs, and 83% of the public, against cruelty to UK wildlife it is looking increasing likely that even with our pro-blood sports front bench, David Cameron will be unlikely to muster the numbers required for a free vote to repeal the hunting Act.

It’s far from over, however, and it would be a mistake to be too complacent.

We have just over four more years of Tories like Mr Cameron in power, and if we want to ensure the legislation to protect our wild heritage stays in place we must remain ever vigilant.

[The fight is far from over as "Ministers consider new body to prove hunting helps animal welfare to win over anti-hunting MPs"]
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David Cameron and his Dirty Politics

10/7/2015

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PictureCameron is a hunting fan
p-Ed: We were promised a free vote on repealing the hunting Act in the Tory manifesto. Now that’s all changed because Mr Cameron has realised that a free vote won’t necessarily go the way he wants it to go.

So to hell with democracy, and to hell with the 80% of the general population who have made it clear in poll after poll that we don’t want UK wildlife ripped apart for the entertainment of a few bloodthirsty toffs.

It’s not just urban folk who have said NO to bringing back hunting, an overwhelming number of decent country people have also said they don’t want Cameron’s dirty recreation.

Cameron’s cunning plan to repeal the hunting Act in all but name was quietly announced yesterday when everyone else’s mind was on the budget.  He will use a little known piece of legislation called a Statutory Instrument, to tweak the Law to bring it into line with the Scottish hunting Act.

This sneaky move is a piece of genius as far as the hunters are concerned.

After all who can argue, hunting was banned in Scotland a year before the English ban and people in their thousands have been asking the SNP to back the English ban if we’d had the promised free vote. The Scots can hardly vote against their own law becoming the rule in England and Wales can they?

The problem lies in the number of dogs allowed to flush foxes. In England and Wales only two dogs can be used and the fox must be shot as soon as is practically possible. He/she must not be chased after flushing. The two dog rule was a concession to Welsh hill farmers who said they needed to use dogs to control foxes in rough terrain. (This was in spite of several studies which proved that foxes are not a huge problem for livestock including free range hens. Better husbandry and lambing in doors and control of dangerous dogs would have saved more livestock than killing foxes)

In Scotland’s hilly areas a full pack of dogs can be used, but again the fox must not be chased.

Hunters both north and south of the border regularly flout the Law, and it’s hunting as usual more often than not, but at least in England and Wales, there is a chance of bringing these bloodthirsty law breakers to court. If English and Welsh law is brought into line with Scotland, hunters won’t need to pretend they are trail hunting, they will simply flush foxes with a full pack and they will let their dogs tear those poor animals apart with little or no fear of prosecution. Other than the saboteurs, who risk being charged with criminal trespass if they enter private land, there will be no one to police the hunter’s nefarious activities. 

Sneaky at best, this dirty politicking is to enable a minority of Cameron’s rich friends who have the ear of his government, to bring back a barbaric form of recreation which should have been put to bed ten years ago when the hunting Bill became Law. This perverted minority has done everything in its power to circumvent the law, aided and abetted by the pro hunting press and the Countryside Alliance.  It would seem the CPS has been instructed to go easy on hunt crime and the RSPCA has been threatened and bullied into leaving the hunting abuse of animals well alone. When hunts have been caught illegally killing foxes there are specialist lawyers and sympathetic judges to get them off with a slap on the wrist. This is in spite of provisions in the law for confiscating their tools of trade and prosecuting the whole hunt as a corporate body.  

In 2004 the Hunting Act took over 700 hours of Parliamentary time, Cameron’s Statutory Instrument will take no longer than 90 minutes. His plastic policy will bring back old style hunting in the autumn and we can look forward to knowing that once again those small red cousins of our own dogs will be persecuted and abused to pander to the so called sport of the country set who should be in facing prison and a ban on being around animals for life for their cruelty. 
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More by this writer:

Keep the hunting ban, only civilised way forward
Traditions and tribulations of a fox hunter
The Donoughue con
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A rattle of claymores and an English capitulation

7/7/2015

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Op-Ed: Who would have thought that after such a build-up, David Cameron would back down over his Statutory Instrument (SI) which, although it was a small change in the legislation, would have led to gargantuan changes in the English law on hunting with dogs? A backdoor repeal in fact.

The Countryside Alliance, formerly the British Field Sports (blood sports) Association, is understandably disappointed because they saw the SI as a way of bringing back old style hunting with a full pack of dogs. It would not have been a full repeal, but it would have been so significant a change in the English law that those who like killing UK wildlife for the fun of it could have resumed that activity with little fear of prosecution.

As the law stands at the moment, the mounted hunts in England have nothing whatsoever to do with fox ‘control’. They are allowed to trail hunt or drag hunt, and nothing else. The law is constructed that way to prevent animals being chased and pulled apart by dogs, although a loophole of two dogs to flush to guns was included at the Act’s inception to placate the farmers and gamekeepers who said they needed to be able to kill foxes to protect their livestock.

​(This is in spite of the studies which have shown that foxes are not a huge threat to farm animals, including lambs and free range poultry)

There is a different arrangement in the Scottish Act, where a full pack of dogs with mounted huntsmen can flush a troublesome fox from cover to waiting guns. The fox is not to be chased under Scottish law and the animal can only be flushed if the farmer or land owner gives specific permission for an animal to be killed who is perceived to be a danger to his livestock.

Mr Cameron was intending to bring English law into line with Scottish law and the idea was enthusiastically embraced by the Countryside Alliance, in spite of previous supplications that there should be full repeal because shooting foxes was hideously cruel in their view, they saw immediately how aligning themselves with Scottish hunters would be a great advantage, and they threw their cruelty argument about shooting those animals straight out of the window.

Like the fox in the bag, Cameron thought he had his quarry well and truly secured. Unfortunately for the hunting set he was arrogant enough to discount the strength of public opinion against hunting, and he set aside the 15th of July for the 90 minutes allowed for discussion in the firm belief that chasing foxes once more was on the cards. His SI would have been a stroke of pure genius, and it didn’t give those of us against hunt cruelty much time to mobilise. It was also snuck in on the day of the budget too. Nevertheless, people all over Britain, town and country alike, began to contact MPs on social media and by telephone and email. A concerted effort was made to beg the SNP to use their compassionate vote, and it paid off.

Angus Roberson, who has always been against the cruelty of hunting, and Nicola Sturgeon announced that the SNP would break with tradition and vote NO along with Labour and the forty or so compassionate Conservative MPs who see hunting as a moral issue not a political bun fight.

Ms Sturgeon told the BBC that she had received an unprecedented amount of communication from people in Scotland, and also English and Welsh anti-hunting supporters too, urging her to speak up for wildlife on both sides of the border

Once the SNP had declared their intentions, David Cameron knew that his free vote would not go the way he wanted, so he cancelled the debate. The Scottish branch of the Countryside Alliance immediately turned the issue into one of Scotland versus England and the long knives were out for the SNP. Mr James Barrington (Welfare Officer for the Countryside Alliance) said, Quote: It is important to understand that there had been discussions between the government and the SNP prior to the introduction of the amendments, and that they would not have been brought forward had the SNP signalled that it was going to enter the debate. End of Quote.

I think the public understands very well that David Cameron intends only to allow a vote when he knows he can win. He doesn’t seem to mind that this is undemocratic and unconstitutional and hardly constitutes a free vote in the true meaning of the word.

The Countryside Alliance has changed tack again and its propaganda machine is now trying to convince the rest of us that failure to embrace the Scottish law will signal the death knell for many UK species, and foxes will suffer in ways unimaginable. In fact it is quite possible the sky may fall down. Perhaps they have forgotten that hunting traditional style has been banned or the last ten years and nothing untoward has happened as a consequence of that.

What of the SNP in all of this? They have given Mr Cameron the bloody nose he deserves and they have promised a review of their own hunting laws after the League against Cruel Sports showed video evidence of Scottish hunts killing foxes against the rules.

We all know it’s always been business as usual here in England and most hunts flout the ban, but at least with the hunting Act intact, if evidence can be provided there is some hope of a successful prosecution following on. The hunters know this, as do the saboteurs and monitors who risk their lives to gather evidence of illegal hunting and, with the cubbing season about to start in the next couple of weeks that evidence gathering would have been practically impossible if Cameron had altered the Act to allow a full pack of dogs to operate. There is also the law of aggravated trespass which was specifically brought in by this government to curtail the activities of the saboteurs. It is a criminal offense, which carries a huge fine and a possible spell in prison, if a saboteur enters private land even to obtain evidence of illegal hunting.

What now? Cameron’s climb down has given those against hunt cruelty breathing space, but it’s not over. A free vote was promised in the Tory manifesto, and this is one promise Cameron intends to keep. He and his bloodthirsty parliamentary big guns are determined to give his friends what they want. He is willing and eager it seems, to ignore three quarters of the population and he is even prepared to damage the reputation of the Conservative party as a whole.

The war against animal cruelty goes on, and those of us who give a damn must keep fighting until we have enough MPs onside to remove once and for all this horrible threat that hangs over out precious wild animals.

Who would have thought that after such a build-up, David Cameron would back down over his Statutory Instrument (SI) which, although it was a small change in the legislation, would have led to gargantuan changes in the English law on hunting with dogs? A backdoor repeal in fact.

The Countryside Alliance, formerly the British Field Sports (blood sports) Association, is understandably disappointed because they saw the SI a way of bringing back old style hunting with a full pack of dogs. It would not have been a full repeal, but it would have been so significant a change in the English law that those who like killing UK wildlife for the fun of it could have resumed that activity with little fear of prosecution.

As the law stands at the moment, the mounted hunts in England have nothing whatsoever to do with fox ‘control’. They are allowed to trail hunt or drag hunt, and nothing else. The law is constructed that way to prevent animals being chased and pulled apart by dogs, although a loophole of two dogs to flush to guns was included at the Act’s inception to placate the farmers and gamekeepers who said they needed to be able to kill foxes to protect their livestock. (This is in spite of the studies which have shown that foxes are not a huge threat to farm animals, including lambs and free range poultry)

There is a different arrangement in the Scottish Act, where a full pack of dogs with mounted huntsmen can flush a troublesome fox from cover to waiting guns. The fox is not to be chased under Scottish law and the animal can only be flushed if the farmer or land owner gives specific permission for an animal to be killed who is perceived to be a danger to his livestock.

Mr Cameron was intending to bring English law into line with Scottish law and the idea was enthusiastically embraced by the Countryside Alliance, in spite of previous supplications that there should be full repeal because shooting foxes was hideously cruel in their view, they saw immediately how aligning themselves with Scottish hunters would be a great advantage, and they threw their cruelty argument about shooting those animals straight out of the window.

Like the fox in the bag, Cameron thought he had his quarry well and truly secured. Unfortunately for the hunting set he was arrogant enough to discount the strength of public opinion against hunting, and he set aside the 15th of July for the 90 minutes allowed for discussion in the firm belief that chasing foxes once more was on the cards. His SI would have been a stroke of pure genius, and it didn’t give those of us against hunt cruelty much time to mobilise. It was also snuck in on the day of the budget too. Nevertheless, people all over Britain, town and country alike, began to contact MPs on social media and by telephone and email. A concerted effort was made to beg the SNP to use their compassionate vote, and it paid off.

Angus Roberson, who has always been against the cruelty of hunting, and Nicola Sturgeon announced that the SNP would break with tradition and vote NO along with Labour and the forty or so compassionate Conservative MPs who see hunting as a moral issue not a political bun fight.

Ms Sturgeon told the BBC that she had received an unprecedented amount of communication from people in Scotland, and also English and Welsh anti-hunting supporters too, urging her to speak up for wildlife on both sides of the border

Once the SNP had declared their intentions, David Cameron knew that his free vote would not go the way he wanted, so he cancelled the debate. The Scottish branch of the Countryside Alliance immediately turned the issue into one of Scotland versus England and the long knives were out for the SNP. Mr James Barrington (Welfare Officer for the Countryside Alliance) said, Quote: It is important to understand that there had been discussions between the government and the SNP prior to the introduction of the amendments, and that they would not have been brought forward had the SNP signalled that it was going to enter the debate. End of Quote.

I think the public understands very well that David Cameron intends only to allow a vote when he knows he can win. He doesn’t seem to mind that this is undemocratic and unconstitutional and hardly constitutes a free vote in the true meaning of the word.

The Countryside Alliance has changed tack again and its propaganda machine is now trying to convince the rest of us that failure to embrace the Scottish law will signal the death knell for many UK species, and foxes will suffer in ways unimaginable. In fact it is quite possible the sky may fall down. Perhaps they have forgotten that hunting traditional style has been banned or the last ten years and nothing untoward has happened as a consequence of that.

What of the SNP in all of this? They have given Mr Cameron the bloody nose he deserves and they have promised a review of their own hunting laws after the League against Cruel Sports showed video evidence of Scottish hunts killing foxes against the rules.

We all know it’s always been business as usual here in England and most hunts flout the ban, but at least with the hunting Act intact, if evidence can be provided there is some hope of a successful prosecution following on. The hunters know this, as do the saboteurs and monitors who risk their lives to gather evidence of illegal hunting and, with the cubbing season about to start in the next couple of weeks that evidence gathering would have been practically impossible if Cameron had altered the Act to allow a full pack of dogs to operate. There is also the law of aggravated trespass which was specifically brought in by this government to curtail the activities of the saboteurs. It is a criminal offense, which carries a huge fine and a possible spell in prison, if a saboteur enters private land even to obtain evidence of illegal hunting.

What now? Cameron’s climb down has given those against hunt cruelty breathing space, but it’s not over. A free vote was promised in the Tory manifesto, and this is one promise Cameron intends to keep. He and his bloodthirsty parliamentary big guns are determined to give his friends what they want. He is willing and eager it seems, to ignore three quarters of the population and he is even prepared to damage the reputation of the Conservative party as a whole.

The war against animal cruelty goes on, and those of us who give a damn must keep fighting until we have enough MPs onside to remove once and for all this horrible threat that hangs over our precious wild animals.
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British democracy, don't make me laugh

11/5/2015

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Democracy? What democracy? Tories ride rough shod over us all.

The worst possible scenario for UK wild animals has played out for real. With the Tories back in power we will see the repeal of the hunting Act, a roll out of the disastrous badger cull and our grey squirrel population decimated simply for being the wrong colour.

The Conservatives formed a majority government last Thursday, and in spite of the many pressing problems the UK faces because of their policies over the last five years, one of the first things they did was to assure the hunters that fox hunting would be coming back. Jeremy Hunt confirmed that they would overturn Labour’s hunting ban. Cameron had this to say pre-election, “It is my firm belief that people should have the freedom to hunt, so I share the frustration that many people feel about the Hunting Act”.

He may share the frustration of a tiny minority for not being allowed to rip an animal apart for fun, but his frustration is nothing to the frustration of three quarters of the country who don’t want to see our wildlife chased, traumatised and slaughtered by packs of dogs egged on by a vicious collection of two legged jackals in red jackets.

The idea of repealing the ban put in place by a Labour government ten years ago so that people like Cameron can hunt and kill helpless creatures is untenable, and the fact that our government refuses to listen to the majority voice of the people is despicable.

Hunting is barbaric, antiquated cruelty to defenceless animals. The repeal vote is undemocratic and disrespectful. In effect Cameron is putting his own bloodthirsty hobbies and those of his friends before the majority of the decent people in the UK. Over three quarters of us want the ban to stay but that holds no sway with our Prime Minister.

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The free vote will happen soon, and it will happen when MPs against hunting are away from Westminster. The protests have already begun, and a petition started four days ago has already garnered over 150,000 signatures and rising. Will it make any difference? I doubt it. The disastrous badger cull petition had 300,000 signatures and Cameron ignored every single one who signed.

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Every single poll to date, be it a scientific poll like the ones commissioned by the League Against Cruel Sports or IFAW, or the newspaper polls that invite people to answer yes or no questions, have come back with a resounding NO we don’t want repeal of the hunting Act. It all falls on deaf ears. The hunters of course are cock a hoop, they thought their nasty pastime was about to be snatched away permanently with a Labour win, and indeed if that had been the case, protection for many other animals, not just foxes would have been on the table.

The skulduggery and sneaky tricks started long before the general election, with pro hunting Vote OK people canvassing but not declaring an interest in hunting whilst visiting potential Tory voters in their homes. Vote OK claimed after the last election in 2010 that their dedication and commitment to bringing back hunting gained the Tories 20 extra seats in marginal areas.

Lord Mancroft back in 2008 wrote in a hunting journal four years after the ban,

"The reason that we shall win the battle to preserve hunting and our way of life for future generations is simple. We will outlast our enemies. We will keep our hounds and horses, keep our wonderful staff, keep our communities together, keep our farmers' and landowners' support, and we shall put together the necessary resources, both financial and otherwise, to achieve all of this, and we shall continue to do this until this Labour Government falls."

And indeed this is what they have done by killing fox cubs in secret to train their dogs and carrying on illegal hunting with the protection of the police and the Courts. It is a disgraceful state of affairs and one which has opened many an eye to the corruption and collusion in UK politics.

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Hunters don’t claim hunting is sport these days. They call it humane animal management. This was not the case pre ban, however. In 1998 on TV’s Face the Public, Chris Ogilvy, Master of the Coniston Foxhounds was happy to admit when asked, that hunting is not fox control, its sport, carried out for pure enjoyment. Difficult to see what enjoyment one can derive from pulling apart a helpless animal for the fun of it.

(Watch the 3 videos posted at the end of this article. A Minority Pastime Parts 1, 2, 3.)

Since the election four days ago, the whole dynamics of the United Kingdom has changed. Five more years of this uncaring, compassionless government will see the land run red with the blood of tormented animals. England’s green and pleasant land will not seem so pleasant, nor will it be a safe place to visit if you object to the killing of its wildlife for sport. The hunters, and their thugs the terrier men, will rule in rural areas and once the ban is lifted they will take it as a red light to maim and insult the saboteurs who will be the only protection our poor animals will be able to rely on.

What can we do? We certainly won’t roll over and give up. There is a very slim chance that with public pressure and overwhelming objection to hunting becoming legal once again, we may be able to salvage some kind of deal from the wreckage.  

Please sign this important petition and join the marches and Internet protests that are sure to follow on.

People are still in shock at the re-election of the worst Tory government in living memory; they need a little time to regroup. One thing is for sure, if the nasty party is not for turning and repeal of the hunting Act goes ahead, we will not get another chance to revisit any anti-hunting legislation for maybe 30 or 40 years. The psychopaths will indeed rule the asylum

http://www.league.org.uk/huntingact
https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-keep-the-ban-on-fox-hunting-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaQ3yl8R-cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWC8P-H-pL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWMg81-moM


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Use your vote to end hunting cruelty forever

14/4/2015

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Vote to end the cruelty that is hunting forever

Hunting and shooting campaigners love to pretend they are the guardians of the UK countryside. They are supported in this claim by the pro hunting press and the Countryside Alliance. The latter also likes to pretend they are the voice of the countryside, speaking out for country people on all kinds of issues. The reality is somewhat different as their real and only remit is to bring back hunting with hounds by fair means or foul.

It’s not just our harmless wildlife that suffers, extreme violence is often used against those opposed to blood -sports too. People have been killed in the fight to save animals and many more have been beaten and even hospitalised by hunters and their brutish hangers on. So why you may wonder, would an MP wish to associate with such violent and unsocial characters? It’s a worrying trait indeed to think that those who may be leading the country are themselves affiliated to the dirty affairs of the blood sports enthusiasts.

The Countryside Alliance is locked in a battle they dare not lose if they wish to remain in existence in their present form after the election on May 7th. To date they have tried every trick in the book to persuade the rest of us that killing for sport is necessary and wholesome. Poll after poll has shown that the British people are against hunting, yet undeterred they keep going with the propaganda and the dirty tricks. The current ploy used by the pro hunting set is Vote OK. Vote OK is made up of hunters and shooters who have offered to deliver leaflets, and even canvass, for prospective Tory MPs. Sounds very laudable and public spirited doesn’t it, until you learn that they do this in return for a promise from that MP to vote for repeal of the hunting Act. What is even more underhand is that hunters don’t declare on the doorstep that they are doing this in return for a favour from the MP. It’s a kind of cash for questions situation although no cash changes hands, just a promise of you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours by voting to bring back your cruel sport in return for delivering my leaflets.  It obviously matters not that 80% of us don’t want the Act repealed.  This way of operating is deceitful at best, at worst it smacks of bribery and corruption.


That the hunters are desperate is obvious, as a letter which has been circulated to pro hunt groups on FaceBook shows. It is a rally call for Vote OK supporters to deliver leaflets for Neil Carmichael in the marginal seat in Stroud, where they hope their efforts will secure a pro hunt Tory win. It is one of many rally calls across the country for a huge effort in the marginals where there is chance of returning an MP who will vote for repeal. 

David Cameron has already stated he will hold a free vote on repeal if the Tories are elected for a further term, and as Labour has promised to support the ban it’s no wonder the hunters are going all out to secure a Tory win.  

Page 23 of the Tory manifesto states, 

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 "We will support countryside pursuits. We will protect hunting, shooting and fishing, for all the benefits to individuals, the environment and the rural economy that these activities bring. A Conservative Government will give Parliament the opportunity to repeal the Hunting Act on a free vote, with a government bill in government time."

This is not democratic in any way, it’s a conflict of interest, it’s the Tory blood sport enthusiasts in Parliament who are using their power and their privilege as MPs to repeal a legal, working Act which the majority of us want to remain in Law.  What can those of us do who abhor the cruelty that is hunting? We can begin by challenging these doorstep pro hunting Tories. We can call them out on their underhand tactics and we can send them packing. The next thing we can do, and the most important thing, if we genuinely care about our foxes, deer, hares and badgers, is to vote Labour on May the 7th. Labour has promised to protect our wild animals, and Labour is the only party with the numbers to kick the bloodthirsty Tories out of office.

Resources
http://b.3cdn.net/labouruk/e1d45da42456423b8c_vwm6brbvb.pdf
http://www.league.org.uk/news-and-opinion/videos

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