British PM May could allow vote to lift ban on fox hunting
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There's a pointless thing to do, to use up political currency on a pointless pursuit for the filthy rich. There is conservatism and there is conservatism but that is just stupidism ... with an election looming, too.
About time, too. Even Blair later admitted that his government's ban on foxhunting in 2005 was wrong.
About time, too. Even Blair later admitted that his government's ban on foxhunting in 2005 was wrong.
Whatever the degenerate Brits think, those Newfoundland and Quebec fishermen who have harvested seals for hundreds of years do not do it for pleasure and entertainment like the cruel, bloodthirsty British murderers do to their foxes. The British are a disgrace to out of species
Vermin control is necessary for British husbandry. The fact that they've combined it with cross-country equestrian sport and given it a social, community element makes it no different from having hunting buddies. If you condemn taking pleasure and entertainment from hunting, you've just condemned half of Canada.
Yeah, yeah. The foxes are going to eat the chickens all up. Better kill off the foxes. Aren't you killing off your Badgers for some trumped-up reason, too? Pretty soon, the Crow will be the top predator in the UK's petting zoo ecosystem.
Yep. Country people - especially farmers - know full well that foxes are pests and commonly raid farms stealing chickens. This is a fact which the Blair Administration, full of townies, was completely oblivious to. Blair cottoned on, though, because he later said he regretted the foxhunting ban. The foxhunting ban has also seen a huge rise in the urban fox population, with a large increase in the number of foxes attacking and maiming young children and babies, especially in London. The then London Mayor Boris Johnson, who recognises that foxes are pests and vermin like rats, said urban foxes were a "growing problem", and the attacks "must serve as a wake up call to London's borough leaders, who are responsible for pest control".
To control the spread of bovine tuberculosis.
You mean, your chickens still cluck-cluck-cluck around farmyards?
How quaint. I suppose that the ineffiency is a result of decades of E.U. agricultural subsidies that kept little family farms going, there, decades after they ended in North America.
Petting zoo ...
Living Medieval museum ...
Where else would you expect chickens to be reared?
British farmers receive very little from the EUSSR's Common Agricultural Policy. French farmers, for example, receive three times as much from CAP as British farmers do. But, as Britain is a net contributor to the CAP budget, any money British farmers "receive" from the EU through the CAP is only British money that the EU is giving back to us.
They haven't been raised like over here in the developed world since Ford made the Tin Lizzie.
Do they have to be free range like that to pass your British Halal regulations?
Do they have to be free range like that to pass your British Halal regulations?
The only reason why Canada is developed is because it was once part of the British Empire.
They don't have to be free range, but free range chickens are the most common and their eggs are healthier.
An increase in vermin and pests which has led to more attacks on farm animals and, with the number of urban foxes soaring, an increase in attacks on young children, particularly in London.
It's strange how killing pests and vermin like rats is deemed okay, but killing pests and vermin like foxes is deemed wrong and cruel.
Tony Blair's 'regret' over fox hunting bill
Tony Blair won a bet with the Prince of Wales that foxhunting would continue after he left office, despite bringing in the legislation outlawing it.
Tony Blair has expressed 'regret' over the fox hunting bill Photo: PA
By Caroline Gammell
01 Sep 2010
The Telegraph
He says the hunting Bill was one of the measures he most regretted and admitted not knowing enough about the debate.
The ban turned into one of the most controversial laws during his administration, prompting mass marches in London and even an invasion of Parliament by protesters. He describes the passions aroused as “primeval”.
“If I’d proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I’d have got less trouble for it.”
Mr Blair says he voted previously for a ban on foxhunting without thinking much about it and had no feel for those for whom it was a way of life or those for whom it was about cruelty. “Result? Disaster.”
The former prime minister says he raised expectations by hinting during a television interview that foxhunting might be banned. Once he voiced an opinion on the matter, he says it became impossible to extricate himself from the situation and he felt trapped. “By the end of it, I felt like the damn fox.”
Pro-hunting protesters pursued Mr Blair the length and breadth of the country, including during a visit by President George W Bush, who had to be told what it was about.
“ 'Whatever did you do that for, man?’ said George, as ever getting right to the nub.”
Tony Blair's 'regret' over fox hunting bill - Telegraph