[Crimson Dynamo]

David Cameron has started a search for MPs who will help him reintroduce fox-hunting “by the back door”.

He and the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, want to use a parliamentary device known as a statutory instrument to amend the Hunting Act, and have provisionally booked parliamentary time on March 26 to debate the idea. They are now canvassing support among MPs of all parties.

The aim would be to lift the ban on hunting with any more than two dogs in England and Wales, which means using packs of up to 40 hounds would again become legal, although dogs would still not be allowed to kill foxes — death would have to be through shooting.

http://labourlist.org/2014/03/is-dav...k-fox-hunting/


Is it time to bring back this tradition to the UK that helps farmers up and down the country and boosts tourism?

[Firewire]

No, it's unnecessary (in my opinion, of course)

[LukeB]

No thank you!

[MB.]

I'm pretty sure there are many more productive ways of boosting tourism which happen not to involve death

[GiRTh]

Never.

The party of the Working class eh?

[Amy Jade]

No. I hope Cameron is kicked out asap

[Kazanne]

No NEVER,there is no need for such barbarity,unless of course we are going backwards.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The Conservatives aim to bring it back when they win the election this year

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gene...-election.html

This will be welcomed by farmers and livestock owners

[Shaun]

wouldn't really mind it tbh, foxes are evil little bastards

although yes the whole upper-class "rah rah rah" sport about it all is rather pointless. just cull them

[arista]

Originally Posted by YaFilthyAnimal

wouldn't really mind it tbh, foxes are evil little bastards

Yes they are Tough

[joeysteele]

Not at all, I cannot believe the Conservative party under David Cameron are even looking at trying to make this legal again.

Where I was born,I once saw a hunt when I was just a child, and saw the totally exhausted fox ripped to pieces still alive, with these horrible well fed so called pompous male adults laughing, joking and celebrating.

I was physically sick and have hated the idea of foxhunting ever since,never mind it being legal.


What a horrible policy to want to bring into force,awful thing for awful people with really sick and awful minds.

[armand.kay]

I'm someone who doesn't really care for animal but even I think it is a disgusting "sport". Says allot about Cameron if this is true.

[T*]

Yes Please, Foxes are ****ing bastards

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Mistletom

Yes Please, Foxes are ****ing bastards

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Not at all, I cannot believe the Conservative party under David Cameron are even looking at trying to make this legal again.

Where I was born,I once saw a hunt when I was juyst a child, and saw the totally exhausted fox ripped to pieces still alive, with these horrible well fed so called pompous male adults laughing, joking and celebrating.

I was physically sick and have hated the idea of foxhunting ever since,never mind it being legal.


What a horrible policy to want to bring into force,awful thing for awful people with really sick and awful minds.

have you ever seen a fox loose in a henhouse?

I have and its not pretty - foxes are not Disney characters

and no need for insults to people who do not share you views

[T*]

Originally Posted by YaFilthyAnimal

wouldn't really mind it tbh, foxes are evil little bastards

yup
a lot of my birds (we have chickens and geese) have been murdered by them just for fun- not even to use them for food. if they used them for food i wouldnt mind as much but its not a nice sight to see one of the cute birds you see every day with the neck ripped off and left there to rot. It's sad too- It sounds bizarre but every bird had a personality and is usually very friendly, and then they're just murdered.
i hate it
recently it happened to one of our geese we raised up from a baby, and that happened on christmas eve. when I posted it on here a certain somebody was like 'i'm sorry for your loss but foxes are cute little baba wild doggies- they don't know what they're doing!' which was honestly an extremely stupid thing for them to say.

[T*]

Originally Posted by MontyThePenguin

You don't know my experiences.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Mistletom

yup
a lot of my birds (we have chickens and geese) have been murdered by them just for fun- not even to use them for food. if they used them for food i wouldnt mind as much but its not a nice sight to see one of the cute birds you see every day with the neck ripped off and left there to rot. It's sad too- It sounds bizarre but every bird had a personality and is usually very friendly, and then they're just murdered.
i hate it
recently it happened to one of our geese we raised up from a baby, and that happened on christmas eve. when I posted it on here a certain somebody was like 'i'm sorry for your loss but foxes are cute little baba wild doggies- they don't know what they're doing!' which was honestly an extremely stupid thing for them to say.

That's the circle of life, they don't know any different

[T*]

Originally Posted by NoëlEdmonds

That's the circle of life, they don't know any different

So you're saying humans that murder other things for fun is just 'the circle of life'? 'Cause that's what foxes are doing.

[T*]

I don't agree with killing foxes for sport however.
I think the foxes that have been found murdering things etc. should be killed. Not just any random one for fun.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Mistletom

So you're saying humans that murder other things for fun is just 'the circle of life'? 'Cause that's what foxes are doing.

There's a huge difference between human murderers and animals who hunt things..

I mean, it's sad that you lost your birds, but that's what foxes do, they hunt wild things, that's what they're taught to do from birth, human murderers aren't raised to kill people, so comparing to two instances is a completely redundant argument

[T*]

Originally Posted by NoëlEdmonds

There's a huge difference between human murderers and animals who hunt things..

I mean, it's sad that you lost your birds, but that's what foxes do, they hunt wild things, that's what they're taught to do from birth, human murderers aren't raised to kill people, so comparing to two instances is a completely redundant argument

They don't just eat them though- They're doing it for fun and entertainment and just leaving them behind. It's not really hunting if it's not going to be used.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Humans have been killing foxes for thousands of years - at least with the Hunt they get a sporting chance rather than a marksman with a rifle

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

have you ever seen a fox loose in a henhouse?

I have and its not pretty - foxes are not Disney characters

and no need for insults to people who do not share you views

I'm sorry LT,but I agree with Joey,if farmers want to keep their livestock safe,they should shell out more money to build them decent hen-houses etc,not the knocked together homemade shacks most have to live in,but lets be honest some sub humans just love to see something suffer for their entertainment,Go to Spain and China now THAT would open peoples eyes,and those tossers who have to don a red coat to get an even bigger thrill are scum.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Mistletom

They don't just eat them though- They're doing it for fun and entertainment and just leaving them behind. It's not really hunting if it's not going to be used.

It is still hunting, just because they don't eat them doesn't mean it's not hunting.

Foxes, nor any animal, should be punished and killed for doing something that is natural to them, foxes hunt, they kill things, so do many other animals in the wild, should we kill every animal who does that?