Chris

Well, if you want to take a democratic stand in favour of the hunting lobby, vote Tory. Michael Howard is committed to repealing this nasty little piece of class-war legislation when they return to power.

I was spitting fury as I drove to work this morning listening to a Guardian columnist bleating on about how hunting has to be abolished as it is one of the last remnants of the feudal system which kept the aristocrats in power and the peasants in line. How dare he, or anyone, presume to make laws based on such an ideological notion?

I tell you, there are some people in this country who pay lip service to the idea of democracy when what they really want to do is smooth-talk their way into power and then use their position to tell everyone what to do and how to think. And I find that a great many of them are lurking on the back benches of the Labour party. It's chilling.