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nigelswift Oct 26, 2010 08:34:19
Replying to moss

Nice people. Don't like being photographed eh? I wonder why?

Supporters of hunting are such bare faced liars, here's my local MP in the paper about what he was told on the doorsteps:

"the impression I got was that a very few people felt passionately and when they did, passion was evenly divided between those who felt strongly in favour of hunting and those who felt strongly against. "

Evenly divided?
99.9% of people round here don't go hunting. Why would half of them be strongly in favour of it?

PS, I've just realised it's tricky wording isn't it? "Those who are passionate are split 50-50" which enables him to avoid mentioning that those who are less passionate are still overwhelmingly anti-hunting - and on that basis he's going to vote to repeal the Hunting Act.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Oct 26, 2010 09:46:20
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Nice people. Don't like being photographed eh? I wonder why?

Supporters of hunting are such bare faced liars, here's my local MP in the paper about what he was told on the doorsteps:

"the impression I got was that a very few people felt passionately and when they did, passion was evenly divided between those who felt strongly in favour of hunting and those who felt strongly against. "

Evenly divided?
99.9% of people round here don't go hunting. Why would half of them be strongly in favour of it?

PS, I've just realised it's tricky wording isn't it? "Those who are passionate are split 50-50" which enables him to avoid mentioning that those who are less passionate are still overwhelmingly anti-hunting - and on that basis he's going to vote to repeal the Hunting Act.

Don't get me going on fox hunting as I despise it to its roots. I had a run in with a toffee nosed b*stard here on the edge of Bodmin Moor who I found cutting down the sheep netting to a pals land so that the dogs could get in. He spoke to my mate like he was a bit of dirt on his boot yet in hard cash terms he was a pauper compared to Kenny. His sheer arrogance was astounding with even the two 'ladies' who were with him thinking he was a prick!

T The Sea Cat
The Sea Cat Oct 26, 2010 11:07:30
Replying to nigelswift

Here in Somerset there's quite a lot of pro-hunting amongst the locals, sadly. It does seem to be the incomers and enlightened local heads who are against it. I don't mean to make a sweeping judgment, but I've found that a suprising amount of rural locals, both here and in Ireland are often more complacent and less caring re. the natural world, almost as if it's just needless sentimentality. I verbally squared up to one buffoon recently who was blathering on about tradtition re. ALL bloodsports. He was dumfounded and silent when I asked him if he was also in favour of bringning back witch dunking .