Fox Hunting To Be Legalised In The New Year?

Question

Do you think that the socialist government led by Gordon Brown will legalise fox hunting in the new year:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=504574&in_page_id=1770

It is apparent from today's massive turnout that everybody wants this great British tradition to be brought back.

It is only a matter of time now as David Cameron has pledged that he will reintroduce fox hunting when the Conservatives win the next election.

Answer 1

This is the only New Labour policy I support, I support it's because fox hunting is barbaric. Any one who sits on a horse watching dogs 'rip open' a defenceless animal needs psychiatric treatment. It just goes show you what a two faced geek Cameron is .

ATB Red

Answer 2

Speaking as a countryside dweller, we have to be grown up about this matter and decide what is best for the fox! I think fox hunting 'with dogs' was cruel personally, but the fox population was well controlled by the countryside people for centuries and therefore I don't like to interfere, especially as something did in fact work so well albeit 'cruelly done'. Now though, since it was banned, there have been a marked increase in the rural fox population and we are seeing many dyeing on the roads now instead - never picked up, just getting squashed into the roads and eaten by birds, many of them are not actually killed outright either, and will crawl away and die in agony anyway. I think fox hunting is right, but it should be done humanely and by paid professionals who will do the job correctly and cleanly, probably with a hunting rifle with a telescopic sight.

Answer 3

I do not like fox hunting but I still think it was an error banning it for four reasons.
1. The alternatives are far more cruel
2. To destroy the whole population of foxes would upset any balance of nature and over the years we have done more than enough damage
3. A lot of foxes you see around are in bad condition and these are the ones which by and large the hunt would kill
4. It was banned on an outdated class warfare ticket which is typical of the Blair government and what passes for Brown's government

Answer 4

I saw the "massive" turnouts. 4000 at one hunt, 3000 at another - almost on a par with a lower division, or non league football match. On the biggest day of the hunting year?

Outlawing unnecessary cruelty by banning hunting with dogs has been this government's one truly popular policy, which still has the support of the majority of the population.

It is not apparent from today's "massive" turnout that everybody wants this great British tradition to be brought back. The biggest hunt, at Laycock drew less than 6000 spectators, less than watched Cambridge Utd in the "Blue Square League!

A few thousand turn out to see the hunt. Big deal! Millions think it cruel and barbaric.

Answer 5

if you don't agree with this tough
the reason for fox hunting was that foxes killed livestock.
fox hunting was always about keeping the older fox population down, because the older fox could not keep up with there prey IE rabbits,Field mouse ,etc. so what would happen then is they would attack livestock and people {mainly children}. then some rich landowner made it in to a sport, the foxes they would hunt would be the older ones the young ones would get away, but i do agree with fox hunting BUT not as a sport and the fox must be killed instantly not torn to death by the hounds. let it go back for its original reason

Answer 6

The problems associated with English Fox hunting would be alleviated if the Brits brought in American Foxes.

In America the Fox gets away and is not killed. As for the fox they enjoy being chased they tease the hounds and play games out smarting them.

The combination of a failed fox gene pool and hunting weak foxes to extinction is simply bad for all involved. Brits get some strong Yank foxes and let the hunt be a game not a death march.

Answer 7

Hunting foxes is disgusting. Not even proper hunting anyway, the dogs do all the work and rips the poor little fox to pieces. They have a right to live as well. Most of the hunters are just bloated old men with attitudes anyway, they should get off their horses and hunt the foxes themselves and then they can call it hunting, using dogs is not hunting. Sis i hate any animal being hurt or killed , it is disgusting.

Answer 8

People who support Fox Hunting have a serious personality disorder, cruelty for crueltys sake is the work of Torturers, Concentration Camp psychopaths and degenerates.

Answer 9

I don't think fox hunting will be very high up on Gordon Brown's agenda in the new year. I don't really understand why, if the hunts remain so successful, the law needs to be repealed. I also think the vast majority of 'town folk' remain staunchly anti.

Answer 10

Of course it won't. Apart from your source being The Daily Mail - not the most reliable tabloid, we're going forwards not backwards. Why bring back something so barbaric - it'll be bear baiting next! Foxhunting is for people that get their kicks out of hurting animals and people like that generally end up in prison, thankfully.

And yes, I was brought up in the countryside and surrounded by horses and foxhunters, before I'm branded a know nothing city type.