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Originally Posted by dellwear
For clarity, are you for or against fox hunting Towny?
I can see you disagree with the way the law is proposed to be brought about.
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Primarily I'm for people being allowed to do what they want without the Government deciding the issue for them. As a secondary issue, I wouldn't go fox hunting myself but unlike many I don't purport to understand the arguments about pest control and whether hunting with dogs or with a shotgun is more effective. To me it is not blatantly, outrageously cruel and it infringes no-one's human rights. Therefore the Government should leave it alone and should certainly not be threatening to abuse its power by invoking the Parliament Act, which was designed to be used over issues of major national importance, and not in persecution of minority interests.
Interestingly, that ignorant Guardian-writing class warrior who was on R4 this morning was in complete agreement with the pro-hunting lobby on one thing, the 'animal rights' issue is a diversion, this is about class struggle, pure and simple.