The Government has “fired the starting gun” on its pledge to ban trail-hunting as it confirms that a consultation will be launched early next year – and the community is ready to fight. Defra minister Angela Eagle reiterated Labour’s manifesto promise of a ban, in parliament on 30 October, and stated that the consultation will be on “how to deliver a full ban” – not whether or not a ban should be imposed.I guess he's figured out nothing he could do will improve his ratings, so he may as well go full 'Cruella DeVille'.
Ed Swales, chair of campaign group Hunting Kind, told H&H the news is “further misguided and prejudiced rhetoric from a Government so out of touch with its rural and farming electorate that it would be laughable if it wasn’t so damaging to people’s lives”.
Not to mention the lives of the unwanted hounds and horses that will be culled as a result of any ban, plus the loss of rural jobs tied to the sport...
“This is an election loser for Labour when balanced against today’s real-life priorities,” he said. “This latest attack is not about animal welfare nor ever has been. It’s a wilfully ignorant and discriminatory attempt at a human versus human conflict couched around an ill-informed and anthropomorphic view of how we coexist with nature. “To conflate the unquestionably legal equine and canine sport of following trails with the scientific, ethical and cultural basis of wildlife management is to highlight a complete lack of understanding, again. This rides roughshod over the protectable beliefs of a community cultural minority and tramples diversity into the ground.”
It's an unedifying sight, that of unthinking instinctive killers salivating at the prtospect of sinking their teeth inro a long-standing enemy, isn't it? Especially when they avoid the prey the nation would rather they pursued....
Looking at Labour Government policy, it's basically an attack on anyone that historically doesn't vote for them. Pensioners, Farmers, The Self-Employed, Non-Unionised Workers, Reform voters and now fox hunters. This is hateful, spiteful political policy to stick it to the people that don't vote Labour.
ReplyDeleteHardly the all-inclusive broad church Starmer keeps saying the Labour party is. I can't wait for him to lose the Muslim block vote and therefore his power base. The sooner a proper Islamic party is formed, the sooner we can dispose of the lying and hateful Labour party. And the sooner we can see Islamic policy for what it is, rather than disguised as Labour policy.
Everything politicians do is the thickening of the thin end of the wedge. First they ban hunting, then trail or drag hunting. Next, as the wedge thickens they will come for greyhound racing and horse racing. Angling for pleasure will be in their sights too.
ReplyDeleteAndy, that's what zealots do, they do not stop.
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