Have the pro-fox hunting campaigners shot themselves in the foot ?

[clapham_gull]

Trying to take an impartial viewpoint on this, but I don't know who has been advising the pro-hunt lobby if at all.

Their actions today (and the other week) have made themselves look rather stupid and desperate.

The anti-hunt lobby must be laughing all the way to the bank, I've never seen such a misguided campaign in my life.

A very good point was made on Radio 5 live this afternoon (by a presenter who is openly sympathetic) that the only voice you hear claiming that it isn't just the upper classes who hunt has an upper class acsent.

Although I disagree with their viewpoint, I almost feel sorry for them. Whoever advised them that blowing their horns and bringing hundred of hounds to Brighton was going to affect public opinion.

By having the obvious intelligence to break into parliament they have contradicted the argument that they are simple country people misunderstood by the urban classes.

Any claims of "managing the countryside" will be lost on almost everybody by dumping dead animals in Brighton.

I GOT the point this morning, that one of the "by products" of hunting is that they collect dead farm animals and dispose of them for farmers, but I don't suspect the people of Brighton will think that with a hunting ban Queens Road will now fill up with dead horses.

A simple issue of fox hunting has been whipped up into a town versus country argument (by the pro fox hunting lobby) that it never was. They have exploited the very hardworking people who produce the food that we eat.

I feel very sorry for the farmers now, already screwed by the supermarkets into selling them produce at below the "market" price, so we can all enjoy the buy one get one free deals and enjoy the benefit of supermarket price wars.

( Incidently, it is often the farmer who pays for the "free one" not the supermarket )

The management of the countryside, the cultivation of crops and livestock is obviously something that the urban Tesco shopping man on the steet has little understanding and appreciation of.

After todays events, even more so I feel.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

One of the most telling pieces of footage yesterday was on the evening news. There was an anti-hunt pensioner standing alongside her home made cardboard banner that said something like 'Leave The Fox Alone'. She was being interviewed about her views and what she thought of the demonstrators and ws giving her views in a quiet and thoughtful manner. All very civilised. Then from out of camera this hand appears, grabs the banner, and the camera pans out to show this blonde bitch about half the old lady's age trying to rip the banner in half and having a tug-of-war with the OAP over it. Unbelievable.

These people have become so accustomed to lording it over their beloved countryside for so long that they've clearly forgotten how to behave in a civilsed democracy.

 

[Lush]

Watching the pro-hunt lobby arrive yesterday, the song banging round in my head was from the infamous Young Ones University Challenge episode...

"Ra ra ra - we're going to smash the oiks."

 

[Zeitgeist]

Yet again, yesterdays behaviour by the arrogant scum who think they have a divine right to the countryside and to break the law, showed what an incompetent and misguided campagn the Countryside alliance have run throughout. Yesterdays disgusting behaviour in Queens Road is a masive own goal. The nastiness of this horrible bunch of upper class twats and their humble n obedient serfs was evident for all to see. Three "hooray Henrietta's" attacking one elderly lady?!...How brave of them!

 

[bhaexpress]

You need to remember that not all hunt supporters are upper class twits. Many are common or garden oiks. However, collectively they are all lowlife scum.

 

[virgirlo]

It is so hard to sympathise with the pro hunters when their main arguement for retaining the hunt is the 'social life' that goes with it!
we could use the same arguement for binge drinking and other anti-social activities that may seem enjoyable!!

 

[lost in london]

Their campaign has been generally well intentioned, but then spoiled by a not so small minority of idiots and ridiculous, un-coordinated stunts.

 

[Rangdo]

The bully boy tactics are only going to make those that they are trying to win over resent them even more . They're dead in the water.

 

[somerset]

It is so hard to sympathise with the pro hunters when their main arguement for retaining the hunt is the 'social life' that goes with it!
we could use the same arguement for binge drinking and other anti-social activities that may seem enjoyable!!

....they also keep banging on about hunting being a tradition that goes back centuries....... but we also had a tradition of hanging people in public, but things move on...... I wish they would.

 

[looney]

With a ban based on prejudice thats all your going to get now from both sides. My veiw is that it will probably fail like the poll tax because its uninforcable.

 

[Meade's Ball]

With a ban based on prejudice thats all your going to get now from both sides. My veiw is that it will probably fail like the poll tax because its uninforcable.

To own or not to own.
*consider*

 

[Bwian]

It's time these arrogant, monied twats realised that they do not have a divine right to do whatever the f**k they like simply because they have some money behind them.

Their rallying call at the moment is "When the ban comes in-we're going to ignore it". The first few that do break the law should be sent to prison and made to pick up all dropped soap whilst in the showers

Bear baiting was once legal-we've moved on!
Cock fighting was once legal-we've moved on!
Sending small kids up chimneys was once acceptable-we've moved on!

Get rid of the heads of the snobs (royal family) and we can move on even further. Bring on the revolution!

 

[looney]

To own or not to own.
*consider*