Hunting Act Repeal, Yes or No?

[rosie fronfelen]

wher

Well now ROSIEFRONFELEN - assume that has some Welsh connotation?

Had you actually read eactly what I said which was, "So Normandy is the new 'IN' place to hunt bearing in mind Willie Poole is moving there from Lille.

He reckons the hunting in Normandy is fantastic.

So could some kind soul list the various hunts in Normandy and how one goes about approaching the secretary for a day or two?"

You will note, hopefully from the Welsh Hills that I said "APPROACHING THE SECRETARY FOR A DAY OR TWO".

Therefore I was hardly going to decamp to Normandy on a permanent basis nor does it imply the same, does it not?

Are you saying that because Willie Poole that great bard of the hunting pen, has moved to France, more or less permanently, he is somehow leaving the ship to seek greener hunting pastures? Because that is what you are implying. After all you said, "----and yet you are prepared to hunt in France rather than fight the cause here- bit of a double edged sword wouldn't you say?"

Does that latter statement presumably applies generally to all who care to have, shall we say a flutter with the French?

In answer to your many questions: Farm Gate Myopia, well if you could not see I was proposing only a day or two then that is indicative of Myopia, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary "lack of imagination". Anybody who goes hunting in France should seek to 'Serve the Boar' at least once.

I only wanted a day or two too....sob....wimper.....feel sorry for one's little self - somebody cheer me up..............

Rudeness, one would have thought that one was the model of restraint, kindness, patient courtesy and the utmost graciousness in a simply being evocative of the greater glory of the sport.

where have you been, i have moved on and have no desire to correspond, so you can find your info. from somewhere else where your patronising will be more welcome.

 

[Sanolly]

I think this law should be repealed for a number of reasons:

1) From a legal standpoint, it is a bad, unworkable law because it is not properly defined and impossible to police.

2) I believe it came about through spite and as a 'bone' to throw to disaffected, left-of-left-of-centre backbenchers - but that's just my view!

3) Shooting a fox is not a certain way to kill it - foxes hunted by dogs are either caught and killed or get away - shooting causes painful, slow death unless it's a clean kill, but even if it is, it isn't necessarily the right approach (see point four below).

4) Hunting should be as much about conservation as about controlling a population. Hunting with dogs ensures that the sick and the weak are culled, thus leaving a reduced population of healthy gene-stock to conserve the remaining members of the species.

Of course, all the regular hunters on here know this.... and I don't want to teach Granny to do naughty things with eggs but the question was posted, so....

You could add a couple more points:

5) The fact that the law is difficult to police mean that the gates are now open for the extremist vigilantes to take matters into their own hands.

6) At the risk of sounding like someone who has been taken in by the conspiracy theorists, did they not spend more time deliberating the hunting act than the Iraq war? I get the feeling that the Hunting Act was not propositioned for the sake of the foxes...

 

[vallin]

Didnt have a problem with hunting prior to the ban but am not in favour of using up parlimentry time on issues like this at the moment. The whole of europe is in a mess and our economy is one of the worst i really dont want politicians wasting time on past issues while the nation needs fixing. Plus it would not do the pro hunters cause any favours if politicians got involved in this issue when millions are about to lose their jobs, it would send out all the wrong signals about hunting and the people who enjoy it. You have to pick fights when the time is right and when you know you will win and i dont think that right now is the time and i dont think the support is there.

This is more or less my thoughts on the issue. I was also upset by people choosing who to vote for based soley on the parties stand on hunting. As much as i didn't agree with the hunting ban, I also don't think now is the right time to be devoting more parliamentary time to changing it.

 

[EAST KENT]

Repeal..OF COURSE!! Meanwhile ,I`m off to Eire for a few days "fix" on real hunting and coursing..not cantering along behind a b--- sock.Have`nt been out since the ban,and won`t till the repeal.A b...... sock does`nt test hounds working ability,and watching houndwork is what it is all about.

 

[Judgemental]

wher
where have you been, i have moved on and have no desire to correspond, so you can find your info. from somewhere else where your patronising will be more welcome.

Where have I been? Certainly not for my two days hunting in France. Only two ...... sob sob..... is it fair to deny a chap a couple of days hunting in France and almost brand him a member of the league.

Actually I have been putting the fly hat on one of my mares.

I mean to say folks, all I am wanting is a couple of days in France leaving these islands and not standing up for hunting, hardly?

Now this good lady Rosiefronfelen from the Welsh Hills says I am patronising but firstly she said I was rude.

Me patronising or rude, to a lady from the Welsh Hills, perish the thought!

All I wanted was a day or two's hunting in France and you would think I was ...... well I don't know what, but it was something they don't appreciate up in the Welsh Hills.

Perhaps it's the French thing, I know the Americans have a thing about the French, but I was unaware they had a thing about the French up in the Welsh Hills. May be France thrashed Wales in the six nations rugby?

So there you have it Chaps and Chapesses what ever you do, if you are lucky enough to have a day or two two two emphasis on two, in the Welsh Hills, or perhaps with a Fell pack don't mention you are hankering after a day or two with a French pack in France.

 

[combat_claire]

Repeal..OF COURSE!! Meanwhile ,I`m off to Eire for a few days "fix" on real hunting and coursing..not cantering along behind a b--- sock.Have`nt been out since the ban,and won`t till the repeal.A b...... sock does`nt test hounds working ability,and watching houndwork is what it is all about.

I'm quite curious about your comments. I appreciate that hunting is vastly different from pre-ban, but I find it odd that someone that is so passionate about hunting appears to have made the decision not to renew their subscription. My feeling was that my pack would need all the support it could get to see it through the temporary situation and as a humble bike follower I didn't think twice about renewing my subs.