Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban
The hunting debate makes me smile. If either side could eloquently explain how hunting/not hunting defines their humanity they could win the argument. The urbanites are especially amusing. They live in their overheated boxes and think they control the world. They have the deluded worldview that wants to bring back wolves when every culture that encountered wolves has said er, no. They'll campaign to bring back bears next. These people wouldn't last five minutes in the wildwood. Yum, gone. It's about time we hunted down the boar before someone really gets hurt.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-07-21 by David Hicks from Bromley Kent
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban
Fox Hunting, indeed an iconic image of England. The splendid view of the huntsmen, resplendent horses-fit and raring for the chase; and a the ordered pack of hounds, proud and steady. Three species, man dog and horse working together in a way that has evolved for thousands of years, culminating in the magnificent spectacle. A spectacle that small-minded po-faced politicians have tried to destroy along with the other freedoms of this great and proud people. Despite the efforts of a pathetic group of loosley federated anti-hunt groups, driven by envy, misplaced sympathy, ill-informed pseudo-science and a hatred of true spirit of the countryside, hunting shall return to its place in our rural society and shall see off the threat of a misguided government whose days are now numbered. Tally ho!
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-07-18 by Greenrod from Staffordshire
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I think fox hunting is bad. Foxes should have a chance to live a life.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-04-07 by Sarah from England
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The most fantastic, world reowned festival based in our own back garden.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-04-02 by isabel from London
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Hunting will never go away and us country folk will not be walked over by someone that has had a privileged up bringing and earn more money than most of us could dream off. Face it, those in power have never worked on a farm, they go to the countryside for holidays and have no idea how the place works. You do what you have to do in the city, and we'll do what we need to do in the country.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-01-02 by n'a from Oxford
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban
Yes, fox hunting is a fine old English tradition... along with bear baiting, cockfighting, deporting children to Botany Bay, the rack and other barbaric practises.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-01-02 by Cali Burn from Northwich
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban
Fox Hunting is part of our heritage and dates back centuries. It is a spectacle that personifies the British countryside and is known throught the world.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2007-03-30 by Peter JH Smith from Royston
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Fox Hunting has been a way of life in England for centurys, it is good for foxes as hunting kills the old weak and sick foxes, it is far less cruel then snaring, shooting, poisioning & gassing. It also brings Country people together. I have hunted all my life and much to the anties dismay we fox hunters actually love foxes.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2007-02-13 by Edward from South West
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban
Foxhunting has been a major influence in shaping the English countryside as we know it today ? from the planting of hedgerows and coverts to the naming of village pubs. It is a great English tradition and a symbol of country life. It is a vocation to some and a way of living to many more, enjoyed by people of all social backgrounds. I attend hunt meetings whenever I am able, and often follow on foot or in a car. It is a good way to enjoy some spectacular countryside and meet interesting people. My partner and I have just booked to ride on our first hunt and can?t wait! As a nation, we are expected to be tolerant and respectful of other people?s traditions, beliefs, cultures and way of life, rightly so. We are asked to celebrate Diversity. It seems a shame that we so readily disregard our own heritage and traditions and allow others to dictate to us the way we should live. Everything is watered down for fear of offence. Is there room in our new diverse culture for a bit of old England?
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2007-02-06 by Stuart Norey from Northamptonshire
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I was born in Chiswick London. I lived and worked in Islington London. My mother was one of five children and my father one of ten. My grandfather died of TB ? he was a costermonger ? like most of my relations. I have lived in the English countryside for some forty years - fox hunting is my passion. New Labour banned ?hunting? (after 700 Parliamentary hours) and recently, after some 10 years of prevarication, decided against a badger cull to prevent bovine TB in badgers being spread to cattle. This government allows both the Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter of cattle, etc (without prior stunning). It permits the killing of unborn children (abortion) and has killed many thousands of innocent Iraqis. The British Countryside looks forward to an early General Election in which the Labour government is heavily defeated and out of power for generations. The countdown has begun and within a couple of seasons the British Countryside will return to normality.
Comment on Fox-hunting and the Ban posted 2008-08-12 by Peter Brady from Flash Village Staffs