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Fox hunting is one of those issues which a small number of people on either side of the argument feel very strongly about. It is something on that could change votes for those with firm views.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39885745
Richard Baum has been selected by the Lib Dems as their candidate in highly marginal Bury North seat, on 8 June.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-39885399
This won't change a single vote.
But it will unlock significant campaigning muscle from the countryside lobby - that has been very helpful to the Tories in the last 2 elections.
This is another of those issues where people have a view, but it has next to no influence on the way they vote. The number of people that are anti-hunt enough to change from May to Corbyn is the square root of tiny.
I am sure urban LDs hate it, but they were never going to vote Tory anyway.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/11/choppers-election-podcast-jean-claude-juncker-trying-get-sack/
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, is trying to get David Davis the sack by allowing negative briefings about him, the Brexit secretary has claimed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/11/ben-fogle-says-found-infamous-ed-stone-upmarket-restaurant-london/
On the other side of the ledger are the people who want fox hunting legalised. This is a small number, but for a measurable proportion (maybe 1% of the electorate?), it is a MASSIVE issue. Maybe a game changer. So, it may well be rational for the Tories to seek out this mini-chuck. And it doesn't matter if the major-chunk disagree.
Desperate, much?
Try to break me
But you can't shake me
No
You can despise me
Demonise me
It satisfies me
So
There is so much love in me
The League Against Cruel Sports say "“Are we really going to turn the clock back to a time when killing animals for fun was legal?"
Which is utter nonsense..considering all the other animals you can legally kill..and in the case of rats you SHOULD kill..
So frankly I - and many others - don't give a damn about the issue.
| Many City dwellers have not got a clue about the countryside..
(Also, I hope said pies are offered gratis for any patron of the Auchentennach gay pleasure grounds, such as myself).
If she want to repeal old bills, why not the HoL Act 1999.
"I'm not a Pacifist" says Corbyn
and
"Labour has deserted working class" - May
I wonder which will be believed?
On a one off basis ....
On the reverse side, if it unlocks Countryside Alliance footsoldiers again, It will be useful in rural Lib Dem facing battles.
Either way it will have been a carefully thought out position from the PM. She doesn't tend to blunder into unexpected statements.
It doesn't matter if some Labour policies are popular if people distrust their leader, and think they're unaffordable.
https://twitter.com/david_powles/status/862769213513060354
‘Party backs radical manifesto’ claims the Guardian, while the Times leads with ‘Labour fights civil war over hard-left manifesto. Telegraph goes with ‘Labour MPs ditch Corbyn manifesto’, the Indie has ‘Labour’s £50bn wish list and the Mail ‘Corbyn’s fantasy land.
Andrew Hawkins @ComRes sums up the problem. - ComRes for @DailyMirror 34% are more likely to vote Lab having heard/read of policies, 47% less likely to.
It's small-time snobs like you that are the most depressing feature of the UK. The more vociferous Remainers clearly revel in Brexit because whatever its drawbacks, it legitimises their saying out loud what they've always thought, how stupid and horrible the proles are. Now you've found something to hate "toffs" about too (and of the people I hunt with, I would guess only about 20% are higher-rate taxpayers). Well done you.
She should have followed Dave's lead on this topic.
Kept it low key and not expressed her own view.
Stupid mistake and getting the Countryside Alliance to deliver leaflets for you in ultra safe seats (post the demise of UKIP) is no compensation at all.
But please, regale us with the views of other convicted paedophiles. What did Jimmy think about it? Gary?
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/frame/20080726235533/http://www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk/mainsections/report.pdf
Neither is Thornberry. Brexit taught us that you only need two or three spokespeople so as long as he hides Abbott and McDonnell this could yet be an unexpected election.
The most humane way to kill a fox is lamping, which is usually more or less instantaneous. However, there are drawbacks to it. For one thing, foxes are clever and tend not to go near big strange things smelling of oil parked in a damn great field in the middle of the night. Also, lamping isn't exactly safe - in the month the hunting act was passed two people were killed in Herefordshire, one of them a boy of twelve, after a lamping bullet missed its target (quite what he was doing out and about at that time of night I do not know).
Arguably the most coherent reason to repeal this particular law however is that it is badly written and practically unenforceable (just like every other bill passed by Blair's government). I think there have only been something like 9 successful prosecutions of hunts under it, at least one of which was privately funded - most of the convictions relate to poaching which could easily be covered by other acts.
It may have been forgotten that Cameron did try to amend it to bring it in line with the much more effective and better written law in Scotland, but was, ironically, blocked by the SNP announcing they would vote against it despite it being (a) England only and (b) intended to apply Scottish law to England!
The Prime Minister, who has previously ridden with the Heythrop Hunt in Oxfordshire, said he believed in the “freedom to hunt” and wanted fox hunting legalised.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-says-he-wants-to-repeal-the-fox-hunting-ban-10091571.html
All of them? I doubt many even heard it.. People seem to think voters listen to minutiae.. they don't
Storm in a teacup imho.
Frankly I'm not sure I do agree he isn't talking rubbish either. Although his saying he isn't a pacifist confirms what we all knew, that will not only upset his remaining core vote but opens up a number of potential attack lines given in war or terrorism he has always supported the national enemy, or said he would not stop them in the case of a hypothetical Paris-style attack.
In fact, I'm rather concerned that she's being given a free run right now and there is no decent opposition around to voice the concerns of those worried about Brexit and a myriad of other things.
Somehow people think 'not being straight with the electorate' is a disadvantage.....
I've laid this bet personally to a 800/100 on Betfair actually.
He should have come to this forum, between a few of us I'm sure we could have accommodated this bet - and at better odds than 12-1 too
They also appear to commit to extending HS2 to Scotland. Chortle.
Oh, and it also fails to mention freight (though to be fair they're not the only party to 'forget' rail freight).
https://twitter.com/TheHistoryPress/status/862759742158114816
The draft manifesto is full of stupid proposals.
2) I'm pretty agnostic about the ban on fox hunting.
Otherwise, you're spot on.
http://www.belltoons.co.uk/hotoffpress