Cameron's Hounds Rip Foxes Apart
March 17, 2010 4:10 PM
Mike Popham, Prospective MP for Bristol East is perplexed that hundreds of hunting with hounds supporters are apparently under orders to target key marginal seats within hours of a general election being called, in the knowledge that David Cameron will allow a return to hunting with dogs if he gets to Downing Street.
Mike said "There is overwhelming public support for a ban, and it would be a huge waste of Parliamentary time to overturn the ban - at a time when we are at war in Afghanistan, have rising unemployment, a record embarrassing national debt etc and much more!
"It is wrong for hunters to organise hounds to rip foxes apart. Foxes are the natural predators of some forms of vermin too and without them, the countryside would be overrun. The number of sheep and lambs that they kill is not that many. I understand that they often shy away from taking on live sheep, as they can actually come off worse!"
"Hunt participators enjoy themselves 'chasing or racing on horseback' and should continue to do so without hunting for a kill. If a farmer has a problem, let him deal with it as humanely as possible. There is no real logic to chasing the foxes for hours, as the foxes are not necessarily caught by the time the hunt ends. Hunters often argue that animals can be killed by their natural predators anyway, but very few wild animals would chase down its prey for several hours - they would get bored long before they ever caught their intended food source."
"David Cameron knows he is struggling to get enough support to win marginal seats like Bristol East. I think he ought to come clean on other promises is he making to single-issue lobby groups in exchange for campaign support, probably in secret? Mike added.
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