Yes, not so easy. I'll just keep on until a mod blocks me and I'll respect his decision.
Unlike this statement
"Well Geoff, it didn't seem to worry Mr. Blair that he would upset 750,000 Huntsmen and associated workers..."
Which is a bit of a spin on the facts - but I guess you pro-hunting supporters have to make some kind of effort to make it appear more popular than it really is. How many horses go fox-hunting Peter? Also 750,00? Or would the number be closer to 7,500? This to me would reflect the true number of the Fox-hunting community.
No 'spin' at all Geoff, here are a few documented facts:
The Boxing day Hunt of 2006 attracted 320,000 riders and associated hunt officials
There are 185 Registered Active hunts in England and Wales as of November 2008. That number has incresed since the undemocratic ban in February 2005.
The 'demonstration' attracted 400,000 people, who were totally ignored by the polictical executve in the House of Commons.
(I wonder how many anglers we could mobilise onto Parliament Square if needs ever arose?)
For the record; I do not Hunt myself although I hope my daughter will one day become proficient enough to join the local Hunt.
I am personally in favour of Fox Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales.
I am totally against the undemocratic manner in which the government invoked the Parliament Act to force a bill that could not achieve House of Lords approval.
The Parliament Act destroys all of the political checks and balances that have been in force in our Country for hundreds of years and hands Executive Soveriegnty to the PM of the day; thereby rendering any challenge to his power impossible. Democracy?
Finally, this stupid act made absolutely no provision whatsoever for controlling the population of the verminous fox - really clever that one.
Regarding comments from other contributors vis-a-vis 'illegal hunting' maybe they would care to provide evidence to back up their comments, providing of course that they fully understand the act in the first place. For instance, the Act makes it illegal to hunt a mouse with dogs, but not a rat, you can hunt with 2 dogs flushing a fox to the gun legally but 3 is ilegal. Although you can hunt with as many dogs as you like providing that you are flushing the fox to a bird of prey (?)
Appologies for the 'rant' but this is a topic that brings out the best and the worst in me, from a standpoint of both democratic right and constitutional correctness.
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