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Old 20-05-2010, 08:34   #303
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Re: Bring Back Fox Hunting

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Originally Posted by frogstamper View Post
Obviously the above are mostly over the top stereotypes of fox hunters, and as you say 70% of Tory voters are against fox hunting and are satisfied with the status quo.
The above are not helped by the type of people generally sympathetic to hunting, Otis Ferry for example, in any bodies book a fine example of a chinless wonder who comes across as completely obsessed by hunting with hounds.
As for the current batch of Tory MP's the vast majority want to repeal the ban, and for the first time in decades their is now a minister responsible for "hunting and shooting"...if this isn't a sop to the countryside alliance then I don't know what is.
So with most voters, up to 75%, against repealing the current legislation against fox hunting, irrespective of which party they voted for, many of the above comments having a dig at chinless tories are well justified seeing as Tory MP's are quite content to go against what the majority of their constituents and the country think.
So much for the new tory party...what was it Ken Clarke said the other day? "if we ignore what middle England wants we are finished"

I know you have no great love of fox hunting foreverwar, but now your in that insidious position of defending your party against the indefensible...I remember it well Iraq war, foundation hospitals, tuition fees and many more.
I imagined it would be a good few months down the line before you'd have to do it though.
froggy, I am not, and would not think of, defending the Conservative Party if it put forward a bill to repeal fox-hunting - I have no issues about disagreeing with policies, both privately and publicly. It's not "my country, right or wrong" - it's "my country right or wrong; when right, to keep it right; when wrong, to put it right."

I was, in fact, pointing out discrepancies in people's statements re "rational" and "non-classist", which, unfortunately, you reinforced with "chinless wonder".

btw, in yesterday's Times
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The Tory faithful also faced difficulties over the issue of hunting. The ban will still be in force when the new season begins in November after hunting chiefs were told that a repeal would not be in the Queen’s Speech next week
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