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You’ll be pleased to know Labour vowed a year ago to strengthen the Hunting Act to close the loopholes which allows trail hunting under the dog hunting ban including the numerous exemptions to hunt with dogs under the legislation: Starmar is very much against repealing the ban and wants to...

1. Yes - we are 2. I was a little pissed of at your accusation that sabbers were hypocrites and our ‘bullshit’ needs to be ’called out’.😉 3. In your original post you made some sweeping comments about shooting and snaring but have since qualified them - I’ve outlined the law on snaring...

Only if it is done illegally You said earlier it wasn’t - foxes are trapped first then shot under DEFRA guidelines - but all hunting shooting - ie pheasant, deer, geese, ducks can all result in non-fatal injuries and animals dying in a ditch days later - that is why I am against game sports -...

This is a spurious claim - the legal shooting and legal snaring of foxes when done under licence (as it has to be by law) is a far more humane way of controlling foxes or any other species than allowing them to be chased and killed by a pack of dogs (for fun) - I live in an agricultural...

You think attacking me or trying to discredit me personally is the way to justify supporting trail hunting and killing foxes? The Sussex News reported it as ‘the traditional Boxing Day Wheelbarrow Run’...

Of course the event was set up to block the hunt - that was the whole point DUH - so of course they weren’t going to do the event elsewhere ffs. As they said: "Our enterprising co-ordinator in Lewes has found a novel way of stopping the South Downs and Eridge Hunt from holding their hunt parade...

Seriously what are you talking about ffs? A ‘sham’ describes something that is fake/bogus - this was a real event - the motives for organising to clash with the time the Hunt traditionally meets may have been sham but the event itself and the fundraising efforts were not. The event was...

Er that is not the arguments that have been voiced here and it is ridiculous to suggest that is what people are saying. No one is trying to ‘ban’ anything that isn’t already banned under the Hunting Act 2004. You have completely missed the whole point of why people are against trail hunting -...

The Wheelbarrow race was not a sham, it was cancelled for health and safety reasons - organisers of public events have to provide assurance that health and safety standards are adhered to (by law) and to pay for insurance - the Hunt threats to ride horses through an event posed a direct public...

Sorry but being against fox-hunting has fcuk all to do with class - anti-blood sports is a POV shared by people in all levels of society and regardless of background. Personally I don’t like Foxes or any animals/birds being culled for agriculture purposes either and there is some scientific...

Did you watch the footage I posted of a trail hunt killing a fox? Also, have you no response to my post that it was the Hunt that made threats to the organisers Charity Foodbank event that meant the event had to be cancelled? I’ve edited my post to consider your point that only one...

Feel free to watch this footage https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-11-30/police-probe-launched-after-hounds-filmed-killing-fox-during-hunt Warning - contains distressing footage

My understanding is the wheelbarrow race is a traditional event that runs on Boxing day - In some media it reports that The Action Against Foxhunting organised their own event to clash with the time the hunt normally has the road closure slot for - ie between 11-12am but that The Wheelbarrow...

Perhaps people are just angry at an inflammatory post of pictures by a poster that is enjoying his hunt meet - deliberately posted immediately after just a post saying a hunt meet had made threats to local Charity fundraisers to prevent money being raised for foodbanks. Anyone that has seen a...

The annual Wheelbarrow race to support foodbanks is different from the wheelbarrow race the Action Against Foxhunting had applied to run today also - it was the annual charity race that was cancelled. (EDIT They might be the same event news stories refer to). You keep saying you don’t support...

This is the issue. Let’s stick with it. And this - Peers renowned in fox-hunting circles, stalling and filibustering out a Bill that would ban imports of trophy hunting into the UK - Anyone who thinks this isn’t the landed gentry of the UK protecting their private and commercial interests in...

Well that’s what the organisation was called in the 80s/early 90s when I was involved - I have had no contact with them for years so don’t really have anything to say about them now. But, honestly I always felt a bit uncomfortable with the name - it wasn’t the ‘great unwashed bit’ that bothered...

I’m not sure what your point is? Are you saying it is unreasonable to protest against cub-hunting because rats are hunted by dogs? I have witnessed hare coursing which is equally despicable. In fact my first dog was a lurcher that had been used for hare coursing - when I rescued her, she...

Just to be clear, that ‘dirty work’ which I had the misfortune to witness several times in the past, involves pushing terriers into a fox hole, where the terrier grabs a cub - the fox terrier is then dragged out by his back legs with a young cub screaming in agony in the terrier‘s jaws while the...

I get the impression that NSC has a left leaning membership (at least that’s what is expressed by the majority of vocal members) - I think it is pretty likely based on opinion polls that the majority of the British electorate are pro-Labour. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opinion-polls I also...