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The Hunt with hounds: Labour trying to stop it, again
Live Debate Ian Dale
LBC Local Hunts are tradition. [Animal welfare campaigners are calling on ministers to keep to a pledge to toughen anti-hunt laws, as figures suggest illegal foxhunting remains widespread in England and Wales. Almost 20 years since the Hunting Act 2004 was brought in by Tony Blair’s government, the League Against Cruel Sports (Lacs) – the animal welfare charity that was the driving force behind the original ban – says its data evidences how stronger legislation is required to close loopholes and prohibit trail hunting, which campaigners say has been used as a smokescreen for illegal foxhunting. Trail hunting is where dogs follow an animal-based scent. The figures, which were released in advance of the hunts’ Boxing Day parades, were collated by Lacs from August and encompassed both the cub-hunting season and the first six weeks of the foxhunting season, which started in November. They reveal 186 reports of foxes being pursued by hunts and 220 reports relating to suspected illegal hunting incidents.] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...les-foxhunting |
Good for Labour.
I hope that they succeed. |
Festive hunts are (by definition) infrequent, but Halal and Kosher are daily. If Labour care about animals cruelty, I know what I'd rather they focus on.
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Good SkyNewsHD
At a Live hunt in Buckinghamshire |
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But it means all those fantastic hound dogs would be killed for You |
I would be looking into these traditions a lot closer if I was Labour.
Take the kent annual boxing day swim...342 people entered the water but 872 came out. |
I'm with Labour on this 100%
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I thought it had been completely banned 10 years ago !!!!
( apart from dragging something scented ) |
The Blair government didn't go far enough with this between 1997 to 2010.
However they started to do something at last. Hunting is vile and barbaric. It makes me feel really sick. Plus the creeps partaking in the hunts are just despicable in my eyes. I'm pleased Starmer and Labour are again looking at this and I hope more is done to stop it. After both Cameron and May for the Cons in their time, had they got a good majority, they'd have made hunting LEGAL again. Sick, absolutely sick. Plus of course Farage and Reform are I believe firm supporters of hunting. Farage certainly is. That tells me all I need to know about him. |
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the Conservative memberships with Reform UK |
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I can't stand near all he stands for, OR his Party. Membership doesn't really mean that much though. The Labour Party in 2017 and 2019 elections had way over double the Conservative membership. Yet lost decisively as you know arista. |
Back on this Hunt
All the hounds love it. It is a tradition Labour would be dumb to meddle with this |
For Fox sake stop the Hunt
barbarbic practice, someone should set a pack of dogs on you Arista see how you fare |
It is no longer a Fox Hunt.
If those great hounds chased me I would Climb a Tree - Fast |
id prefer if they focus on stopping the boats
another 500 young men broke into the UK yesterday God only knows who they are and what they will do... |
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They would be dumb to not meddle !! Imho |
There are big arguments for and against, i live in a area where it's a big event, so i don't tend to get involved in the discussion
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Really ? Protect the jobs of the dog handlers etc ? |
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It's despicable. Kick the creeps off their horses and have animals hunting them would be preferable. |
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Its a sent they are chasing |
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Do the dogs say, oh no we mustn't harm it. Really! These things can be used to cover live hunts I wouldn't believe anything hunting organisations say. I've seen in the Country how cruel and more to the point how devious the hunt organisers are. |
Yes accidents happen
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Each side needs to fully understand the other viewpoint. It is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, it can be done without being cruel to foxes. Like it or not, hunting is still very much legal in the UK, the only contentious point is cruelty
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When pre arranged, by the very nature of the vile and intended action. |
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