Finally we’re near banning one of the most barbaric legalised activities in Britain – hunting with dogs – and in particular fox hunting. I’m fed up with all the feeble complaints about how this form of animal-torture is part of country lifestyles. Slavery used to be part of our “lifestyles”. Only relatively recently have women been entitled to vote.
We have to change. Certainly deal with foxes that are pests, but in a humane manner.
This morning we had various interested parties saying how they’d carry on anyway, breaking law. Well lock them up if that’s the case! If you break the law with impunity, chuck them in Belmarsh. Some might run into a few of the illegal immigrants that they’ve had working their land in seasonal times…
And I don’t think the Countryside Alliance quite knows what it’s now letting itself in for if it procedes with a legal challenge in terms of challenging the Parliament Act that’ll allow the Commons to force through the law one way or another.
If that were to be overthrown then we’d have the face the issue of an unelected body dismissing the wishes of an elected one. That’d have major constitutional ramfications, and would probably end the Lords as we know it.
Very dangerous.