I presume the OP is refering to the SNP and their intention to vote against relaxing the ban on hunting in England & Wales ? So much for 'English votes for English laws' then So many 'celebrities' and 'townies' banging on about protecting vermin it really does my head in. However, I do not agree with cruelty to animals in any shape or form but I would like to know how these idiots propose to cull the fox population or would they prefer it if they were just allowed to breed intensely and decimate farmland ?
It i a repeat of the Blair Government. There are so many important issues to resolve (as ever) and what has become a priority? Bloody foxhunting. I am against this vicious activity which exemplifies all that people hate about the Tory party but even for the die hards is it really worth pushing within 2 months of being elected?
They'd be better concerning themselves with controlling rats and feral pigeon populations - but oh no, there's no "sport" involved for the upper-class ****ers in doing something constructive Instead of that, let's vote to gang up on a solitary fox and watch in total ****ing glee while our pack of hunting dogs rips it limb from limb, while the poor thing is exhausted - but still alive?! Bloody foomun', I am, Neyul.
Like I say Cromer I'm not condoning the cruelty of it all, I would just like to know how these people would cull these vermin because that's what they are. A fox might look sweet but it's a nasty piece of work, I know someone who had all her chickens killed by a fox, it didn't eat them just killed them. While I don't agree with hunting I do agree with shooting the buggers.
Am I the only one who thinks that the Tories have set another bear trap for Labour and the SNP? I can't imagine that Cameron and Osbourne really give a damn about fox hunting either way - a couple of metrosexual townies if ever there were but they have put in a bill which I reckon they are not too fussed about with the result likely to be a labour/SNP coalition knocking it back. So Labour look like they are acting against the wishes of the English countryside which will hurt their chances in a lot of key middle England shires where regardless of the views of the majority regarding fox-hunting they don't like the metropolitan elite telling them what they can and can't do and the SNP come across as hypocrites after saying that they would not interfere with legislation on England and Wales only issues and so the Government can, with some justification, say we told you so - had labour got in they WOULD have got into the bed with the SNP and the net result would have been to the detriment of England. Don't vote Labour - you can't trust them not to sell you out to the SNP. Perhaps I am being a bit cynical but it just feels a lot like the sort of lines the Tories were putting out pre-election and this is just one where all the usual top echelon of the party can appear on the Today show and Newsnight to say we told you so.
I have lived for the last 18 years surrounded by countryside in a house a mile from the nearest village. In all that time I have seen 2 foxes. In Worthing a couple of weeks ago I was returning from a late night function and must have seen 6 foxes and I understand that the area around Eaton Park is infested with them. I would also point out that some hunts have been caught breeding foxes because of a shortage. It is nothing to do with pest control - which can be carried out with a rifle - but only about satisfying the bloodlust of a few upper class twats in fancy dress.On top of that, all we have heard from dodgy Dave since the Election is that he has a mandate and has to listen to the people. Polls show that at least 80% oppose fox hunting - how is that listening to the people?
Shoot them, reduce available food by protecting livestock more effectively. The REAL reason there's so much food for foxes is the huge & ridiculous numbers of pheasants being artificially raised in pens then released to then be shot mostly by ****ers for blood sport. If you stop pumping the countryside with so much "free food" the Fox population would reach a sustainable level balanced by food levels. Available food goes down fox population decreases. The way to control the Fox population is to control food supply it's simple logic but will NEVER happen because they make too much money from people paying to shoot defenceless (non-native by the way) birds. Did anyone see the Japanese island programme few weeks back where farmers happily coexist with bears, they used to shoot them but they then learned to not fear the bears and now live in harmony with them
Think you'll find the majority of the countryside don't like/want fox hunting. The countryside alliance tossers do a great job of painting all rural people as supporting fox hunting but it's Bollocks. As an aside they used to counter the blood sport argument by saying most of the time the Fox escapes, so if that's true HOW IS IT PEST CONTROL IF THEY OFTEN ESCAPE??? ffs
