Comments on: Hunting the priority

By: TRT

TRT — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:04:09 +0000

I used to live in Hove too! (Aldrington actually)

Try buying a cheapo bag of chilli powder from either the World food aisle of Tesco, or your local Asian-cooking-supplies corner bargain shop. Smother the chicken bones in the hot stuff before you bag it and the foxes will only ever rummage in your bin one more time.

By: Gavin Ayling

Gavin Ayling — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:07:41 +0000

The law was badly written and written for the wrong reasons but is fundamentally pointing us in the right direction. Celia Barlow knows the way her electorate lean on this issue and is right to mention it politically.
I similarly don’t expect the Liberal candidate to openly criticise the law in the next five months!

By: k

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:54:32 +0000

In the time before the fox-hunting ban I don’t once recall seeing a contingent of red-jacketed horse-riders galloping across Hove and Portslade’s urban parks in pursuit of a foxy quarry. So I’m a little puzzled as to why the local MP Celia Barlow, who has a hyper-marginal majority of just 420 votes, is taking the time in the middle of a recession to remind her constituents that it’s the 5th anniversary of the less than incredibly successful fox hunting ban

I know how you feel. I’ve lived in my current constituency for five years, and not once have I seen a squad of heavily armed soldiers smashing into a local Iraqi’s house and dragging him off to be imprisoned in brutal conditions. So I’m really puzzled why my local Lib Dem candidate is taking the time to remind me about his opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

By: Herren Damenmode

Herren Damenmode — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:27:33 +0000

Protect the animal – don’t eat them ))

By: Merrick

Merrick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:24:24 +0000

Killing animals in when you don’t need to, just because you like chasing them: BAD.

Killing animals when you don’t need to, just because you like eating them: GOOD.

Killing animals when you don’t need to – but they aren’t cuddly and furry, and they live in water and don’t scream – just because you like the fun of it: GOOD.

By: mike power

mike power — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:01:33 +0000

I think the corporate capitalist have benefited from a nicely compliant regime over the last 12 years or so with the heads of plenty of Labour ministers shoved firmly up their arses

By: Patrick James

Patrick James — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:22:27 +0000

I live in Hove so I probably not very far from Justin.

Like Justin I’ve been here for 10 years. Foxes used to visit my garden a lot out the back and I always liked to see them but oddly enough they stopped coming around the time of the introduction of the hunting ban.

I’m glad that the hunting ban was introduced but personally I think it is more about power than foxes. I know I am writing nothing new however.

It used to be that the UK was run by the aristocracy. However the new elite is these massive corporate capitalists of course. The Conservative party is the club in which the old elite of the aristocracy meet the new elite of the corporate capitalists.

The old elite need to be seen to have power, it makes them feel better, so the Conservative party repeals the fox hunting ban. That’s what they get out of the deal. The corporate capitalists on the other hand get a country that is much more compliant to their wishes.

By: disgruntled leftist

disgruntled leftist — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:03:51 +0000

yep, had some bell-end giving me a leaflet about tories legalising
fox-shagging this morning.

filton, bristol.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:17:35 +0000

Where's the hand-wringing over so-called humane poisoning, shooting and snaring, all of which can lead to foxes suffering slow and painful deaths? Anyway, at least the ban had the intended effect, eh? The message was really sent that we won't stand for this kind of thing... Since the ban, horses and hounds have had to trail hunt – follow an artificial scent laid about 20 minutes or so in front of them. But many, either deliberately or accidently, flush out live foxes. It is then, the hunts claim, that the hounds' natural instinct to follow the live quarry takes over. The numbers of foxes being killed by dogs has not noticeably decreased since the ban. Oh, the humanity.

By: mike power

mike power — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:13:06 +0000

Jeez, you’ll find more animal cruelty (and cruelty to humans, come to that) on the sink estates of Britain (places hardly stuffed with Tory supporters) than in the stirrup-cupped, foxhunting shires. . “Still, a nation of animal lovers and all that.”