Andrea Leadsom Christian hypocrite

Andrea Leadsom, Tory MP for South Northamptonshire, is one of two females tipped to become our next Prime Minister.

Ms Leadsom is a committed Christian who claims she carries out her duties as an MP with God always in mind. 

She says she became a Christian when her son was born, and she feels God is guiding her hand in all she does.

Perhaps she missed Ecclesiastes 3:19 “For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all his vanity.

Isaiah 1:11 “What to Me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

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Ms Leadsom has however, delighted the criminal world of red coat fox hunting by declaring she will lift the fox hunting ban in England and Wales if she is elected, and the cruelty we have all known has been going on against the law for almost eleven years, will once again be legal. (Scotland has its own ban on hunting which is currently being reviewed with a view to strengthening the legislation)

Andrea has declared her reason for wishing to repeal one of UK’s ground-breaking laws as she believes it to be ‘IN THE INTERESTS OF ANIMAL WELFARE’.

She wants to bring in a ‘proper licensing system’ apparently, where those hunts who can afford the membership fees will be licenced to hooray and tallyho all over our green and pleasant land, ripping up foxes and feeding cubs to hounds to their hearts’ content with no fear of prosecution.

“I would absolutely commit to holding a vote to repeal the hunting ban. It has not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever,” Ms Leadsom told ITV News in an interview.

One major flaw in Andrea Leadsom’s argumentum ad ignorantiam is that fox hunting is cruel, it is exploitation of our precious wildlife and she, in fact, cannot PROVE otherwise.

When the hunting Act was still a Bill, almost 11 years ago, Lord Donoughue, a pro hunting peer, had a similar idea to Andrea’s, and together with those other blood-hunting zealots from the Countryside Alliance, he cooked up a plan to allow licenced hunting, and as long as hunters were operating within a recognised code, hunting foxes and deer etc. would not be deemed as causing unnecessary suffering.

The ‘code’ was a set of rules drawn up by a panel, (which Lord Donoughue calls ‘the Authority’) comprising mostly of those with a vested interest in seeing the return of legal hunting. Of course those groups all gave themselves grandiose titles with words like ‘conservation’ and ‘animal welfare’ in their titles, so that the casual observer would be forgiven for thinking they had anything but killing for fun in mind.

The rules for hunting were to be drawn up by a panel of hunters and they would decide what would be construed as ‘unnecessary suffering’.

Whatever they had in mind as unnecessary suffering is anyone’s guess, but back in the real world, whoever told Andrea that fox hunting is good animal welfare obviously didn’t inform her that foxes are chased for miles by packs of dogs. Once they are exhausted and can run away no more, they are caught by the dogs, savaged and disembowelled as they fight for their lives.

Teams of hunt thugs go after the ones who manage to escape underground, and the poor terrified creatures are kept at bay by terriers whilst the men dig down from above. Sometimes an animal may hide in a badger sett and the digging activity can take hours.

Once cornered the shivering fox is hauled out and either shot, bludgeoned or thrown to the hounds.

Post mortem reports on four hunted foxes, showed the animals died in agony.

‘Vets from Bristol University examined the corpses of four foxes killed by hunting. Two of the foxes were shot, having gone to ground. Although the first fox hunted in Cotswold Park near Cirencester was killed by a single bullet, the post-mortem examination found evidence of 'trauma before death'.

The second fox hunted on Salisbury Plain had to be shot twice. Having gone to ground a terrier with a radio collar was sent down, and after 25 minutes of digging the fox was found. The first shot went through the animal's shoulder and failed to kill it, so another shot was required.

But the post-mortem of the fox found it had suffered from multiple bite wounds on the face and the top of the head, damage to the right eye, and bite wounds round the throat.

In both cases where the fox was killed above ground by hounds, evidence was found of 'profound trauma'. In NEITHER case was there major damage around the head or neck, as pro-hunt supporters claim.

The post-mortems showed the foxes had been attacked around the rib cage with the heart, lungs and stomach bitten.

One fox probably died from suffocation and in the other, where the heart was severely damaged, it looked like the fox would have been attacked while upside down or on its side.' 

There is NO EXCUSE for this barbarity. Foxes are no real threat to livestock. Most new born lambs, well over 95%, die from poor husbandry, not foxes, and even free range hen losses to foxes are low.

Foxes are nature’s refuse guys, they like to hang around at lambing to eat the afterbirth, and they will certainly scavenge dead or dying lambs. 

They are beneficial to all farmers because they eat the pests that damage crops and spread diseases in the farmyard. The stories of rabid foxes killing dozens of lambs in a night are nothing more than hearsay. Tall stories spread by blood sport fanatics who want any excuse to hunt.

Blocking badger setts

FOI lamb deaths

Atherstone FH Fox narrow escape

After the hunt

Countryside Alliance march

Fox dies in sabs arms

A freedom of information request to DEFRA shows there are no official statistics for the wild claims that foxes kill livestock in huge numbers.

Foxes are not vermin, as Ms Leadsom claims. The term vermin technically applies to insect vectors that spread disease to human beings.

We are not at any risk of catching diseases from foxes. Even their fleas are from our own domestic cats. In the unlikely event that a dog contracts mange from a wild fox, it is an easily treated infestation which can be cleared up in a very short time.

Opposition to fox hunting is at an all-time high, and recent undercover investigations by the HIT team showing Pytchley hunt employees throwing live fox cubs into a kennel full of hounds, has enraged people even further. 83 per cent of the public today say fox hunting should not be made legal again, that is up from 72 per cent when the question was asked in 2008.

Ms Leadsom’s favourite hunt footing. Shocking racist verbals from one of the pros. Hereford hunt rearing fox cubs to train hounds by throwing them alive into a kennel full of hounds.

A sneaky backdoor attempt to make minor changes to the hunting Act (which would have legalised red coat hunting through the backdoor) failed last July because of unprecedented opposition from anti hunt MPs across the board.

Andrea’s own Tory Party has a growing number of MPs who are opposed to this cruel form of entertainment. If she is elected to lead the Party and she does hold a vote on repeal, she may find she has huge opposition from town and country alike.

The UK may be a country in turmoil because of poor Tory leadership, Brexit and the Labour Party coup, but we are still a nation of animal lovers.