I’m listening to David Cameron on BBC3 Dermot Meets David Cameron and realised a Conservative ‘untruth’. David Cameron is talking about a Big Society (which is total waffle IMO) and said they want to listen to the people and if they gain power after May 6th they’ll bring in the ability for the British people […]
Continue Reading Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting
Labour have setup a “Back the Ban” petition website to demonstrate to the Tories the depth and strength of social and public opposition to removing the ban on foxing hunting.
A significant number of high profile celebrates have already signed and publicly supported this petition.
Anyone wishing to add their name to the petition can visit the website at www.backtheban.com
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fox hunting is right the hounds only kill ill old and weak foxes and if foxs were shot yo could kill young well fox
The fact labour have left fox hunting alone clearly shows that it’s not an election issue, David hasn’t said he would leagalise hunting he said
, Labour should really stop assuming… fact of the matter is no party is concerned with such a trivial issue, it is more to do with Labour trying to score petty votes. Which is fine, every party does it. But can i take exception to the absolutely arrogant and disregardent issue of raising child prostitution as an emphatic quote, it is disgusting that you would even say that or suggest that another human being would find it ok, purely on their political beliefs.
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I have lived in a rural area where fox hunting was rife and I can confidently say that most people in the villages were against it. Since the ban (and rightly so) there has been no change to the communities with reference to jobs. The only difference is a few moaning toffs in the village pub.
I have also been to a few hunts, not to lick red coat backside either. The way people are treated by the ‘masters’ whether you are a sabateur, a resident, a road user or just simply enjoying a day out, who happens to oppose their actions, is disgraceful to say the very least. To say it is a british tradition makes me laugh! It may be so for a minority of toffs but where I come from it isn’t. To quote the red coat in the above video, ” If I want to smash your car I will because I am entitled to” just sums up these people.
KEEP THE BAN!!
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Claire – you semm so bigotted against the so called “Toffs”. These gentlemen are good enough to provide jobs in the countryside and do not deserve to be treated this way.
Why don’t you take out your bigotry on the “animals” that make our town centres so disgusting on Fri / Sat nights?
In case you haven’t noticed many of your comments are either being automatically filtered as SPAM (they don’t show up after you submit the comment) or being manually deleted by me.
I’m letting the above comment through so I can send a warning to you and others who seem to think they have to use multiple names to get their point across.
Post under one name or ALL your new and OLD comments will be deleted. When I find a person posting under multiple names I mark their comments as SPAM and the software learns to automatically filter their comments to the SPAM folder (no one but me sees it, it then gets permanently deleted).
Also take a read of https://general-election-2010.co.uk/commenting-policy/#comment-8502
David
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Of Course i have noticed – do you think i am a fool? This is typical case of Leftie big brother censoring of right of centre thinking. Is it any suprise the Socialists are nearly finished???
If you noticed, why did you keep posting under two names knowing they would be deleted? Does suggest you aren’t too bright!
If your argument is so strong why do you need to post under two or more names?
The above comment was posted twice, the other one was under another name that I’d deleted every comment under that name and it was automatically marked as SPAM. The above is your second try with a different email address (I guess a fake one) since the SPAM software now marks anything you posted under the other email address as SPAM.
Note: over the last few days I’ve deleted over 300 comments by people like you that seem to think the only way to win an argument is post under multiple identities. If a commenter posts under more than one identity ALL their past comments are deleted.
I don’t care what your politics is, though most offenders are right-wing (90%+ BNP supporters), who post under multiple names, though today I’ve deleted about 10 comments from one person supporting Nick Clegg under several names.
If a commenter keeps making the same mistake of posting under multiple names, the software learns and filters your comments as a SPAM.
If you like wasting your time writing a comment that will never be read, keep posting under two or more names.
BTW what is it with people like you blaming me for your stupidity in getting caught? I’m not the person who feels so insecure about their arguments I need to support them with false identities agreeing with myself!
David
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Matie – it is the lefties like you that are insecure! Can you not see that ur politics is DEAD?
Wakey Wakey! (esp on Friday morning)
Tut tut Rosylin
clair
You have no idia how the countary workes, PLEASE LEAVE US ALONE that good ‘talk’ – and yes my dad is a master.
KEEP HUNTING
KEEP FIGHTING
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I was going to vote Conservative on the 6th. Then I came across Brian Mays website about keeping the ban. I had actually not even thought about the hunting issue (rather stupidly) and am having a serious think about who I’m going to vote for. Its a real shame Cameron is so pro-hunt as I think he may well make a good PM. I just can’t understand these hunters who insist on killing animals and yet say its not for the kill that they hunt. Well if that really was the case, they’d go drag hunting, and they don’t.They will never admit it, but its blood-lust, pure and simple. I don’t care if they’re aristocrats or not. They keep whineing on about the ban being a ‘class war’. Its nothing to do with class. Its to do with creulty. I may well vote Labour now just to keep the ban.
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I’m happy to say that both Labour and the Lib Dems** will not repeal the hunting ban.
** Saw Nick Clegg talking to Paxman on TV and he said the Lib Dems wouldn’t take a second look at the hunting ban and if there was another vote, Nick Clegg would vote to keep the hunting ban.
What’s rather sad about those against the hunting ban is the hunters can still hunt with dogs (so the hunt isn’t illegal). What they can’t do is allow their dogs to rip a fox to pieces while it is still alive.
The only real difference is the way the fox is killed (if it is killed). Why do they need to actually kill the fox with dogs?
Is that really such a bad law?
IMO it’s a reasonable compromise, the majority of British people don’t want foxes hunted by dogs, but a small minority have traditionally hunted foxes with dogs. The only change is they can’t kill the fox with the dogs, if this is about pest control the only difference is now the hunt has to shoot the fox instead of rip it to pieces via dogs.
I don’t see a problem, it’s a reasonable compromise that appears to be working since the hunts are still around hunting.
A hunt went through where we live recently (Skegness) and the hunting dogs chased a little dog off the beach and into a boating lake https://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/police-probe-skegness-beach-hunt-dog-chase-1-1345282
What a wonderful sport these people follow!
David
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Due to my strong feelings about – KEEPING THE FOX HUNTING BAN, – I did not vote for the Tory party, – and never will.
The majority of Conservative MPs support hunting (they voted against the current ban), so if there’s a Conservative majority after May 6th and David Cameron gives a free vote on repealing the hunting ban (and he plans to) they will almost certainly win (that’s if they have a Conservative majority).
It was hard enough getting the ban through in the first place with a clear Labour majority as the Tory members of the House of Lords tried to block it indefinitely (which is undemocratic as it was a Labour manifesto pledge) and the speaker of the house had to use his powers to push it through (that never happens normally, that’s how undemocratic the Tories are on hunting).
I’m sure there are Labour and Lib Dem (and other) MPs that support hunting, but the only party that supports hunting of animals with dogs which has been shown to cause unnecessary pain and suffering to animals (it’s an animal welfare issue) are the Conservatives.
The Conservative MP in my area Mark Simmonds for Boston and Skegness constituency supports hunting and voted against Labours hunting ban.
If we have a
Labour Government
Lib Dem Government
Labour/Lib Dem Coalition government
And possibly a Conservative minority/coalition government.
The hunting ban will remain in place like the vast majority of British people want.
The Conservatives are being undemocratic in even considering going against the people’s wishes on this issue.
The Tories think it’s not important, but it is as the way we treat animals is a reflection of how caring a society is.
David
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I trust DC will have more important things to worry about anyway. not many people of my generation are passionate about this sport one way or another!
David – er it’s the way we treat PEOPLE that is a reflection on how caring a society is! (not that i would dream of mistreating an animal).
i have never been nor ever will go to a fox hunt as i think it a dull sport. but that sais i stil favour fox hunting to all other forms of controling the fox populations and before any one say’s they don’t need controling yes they do they have no natural predators in the uk, so it is people job to control the numbers for the good of the fox species in the uk. all other forms of population control of foxes eg. poison, snares and shooting. kill on mass and also kill other animals as well as foxes i have seen badgers, small deer and even otters caught and killed in fox snares aand seen badgers poisoned by poison put out for foxes. as for shooting where as with hunting one fox per week may get killed in any rural village with shooting you can kill dozens in one night so there fore hunting actualy preserves the fox population as these other mesures are a lot less wide spread when people can hunt them. as the hunts will pay farm owner to allow them to hunt on the land therefore foxes become a financial benifit to the land owners. and for any one to say that a foxe being chased down and killed by a pack of dogs is barbaric and unnatural you need to look at nature the natural predator of the europian fox is the wolf (which have become extinc in britain therefore no natural predator for the fox here.)therefore in the wild the fox would be chased down and killed by a pack of dogs which actualy makes hunting the most natural form of population control for the species. case closed
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and to follow on from my last comment i would like to add (mainly for lisa’s benifit)that fox hunting should not even be an election issue. whether or not any party will keep the ban or repeal the ban should not affect your vote. you should be voting for who is going to make britain great again and pull us out of finacial ruin and lower crime and poverty you should not be worrying about somthing as trivial a foxes. and for all you that think foxes are cute little animals i can inform you they are not they carry many diseases and i have infact seen someones pet dog die a slow and painful death from fox mange.
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