shogun:
It’s a very emotive issue and one that folks just have to agree to disagree on.Dave
Sorry Dave but i cant agree to disagree over this one.
emotive, i think not… its simple… HUNTING FOXES WITH HOUNDS IS BARBARIC. AND THANK THE LORD IT LOOKS LIKE BEING FINALLY BANNED.
isnt it strange that even though there are numerous graphic pictures of this activity (i nearly said sport ). these people still try to say hounds dont rip foxes to pieces are you sure its a fox… GET A GRIP.
if they end up on the dole oh dear how sad…
(my own personal thoughts
I for one dont care how the Fox is killed makes no diference, and i hunted in my yunger days, as discussed in a previuos thread. But I’m delighted although sure to be disapointed with the ban. Prince Charles is reported to have said that if Labour were to ban hunting, he might aswell leave the country to spend his time skiing. Well sir I would be happy to fund a one way ticket to Coisters, and take the reat of them with you. Awaiting the public anoucement of your permanent emigration {dream on eddie}.
Oh and just for the record, the CA will be very disapointed if they think the majority of the general tax paying public are going to give to hoots about their protests. The house of commons has primacy over the unelected house of lords, challenges to the parliment act make no diference to the fact that the elected chamber for what ever reason, right or wrong has had its say , and that must not be over ridden by any court. Parliment not Government must remain above court action, and should have the final word when laying down legislation.
I have owned many so called “hunting dogs” from jack russells to pit bulls but still agree that hunting should be banned!!!
Bully
It is just for the idle rich, very cruel and disgracefull and no way a sport 
On the subject of Thatcher, the unemployment rate before she got into office was around 3%, she soon got it up to 10%
One simple reason, they would have nowhere to hunt.
Farmers mainly only allow the hunt on their land to control the foxes, if they aren’t doing that job then why have them on your land
So the thousands of job threat comes up again, people can still keep horses, people can still ride horses, there are thousands of miles of public bridleways in Britain. Horses still need food and stabling
Horses dont kill foxes, Horses dont kill anything for fun. maybe it should be legal to shoot hunting people 
that could be fun.
And as for horses on the roads, they have more right to be there than the 4x4 and trucks we all drive
How about horse hunting at least the French could eat them!!!.
Farmers mainly only allow the hunt on their land to control the foxes, if they aren’t doing that job then why have them on your land
We do allow the hunt on our land, but not for control of the foxes, for the free service they provide in collecting our fallen stock to the hounds.
I have no real views either way, I have been brought up with hunting all around. I do agree with the view that more foxes will be killed as a result of the ban. Some farmers will basicly kill any fox that is seen on their land as a result of this.
TC:
Thatcher killed thousands of Jobs when she closed down the Mining industry!I don’t recall many of the Tally Ho coming out in sympathy!
was it foxhunters that broke the pickets driving through with loads of coal 
Denis F:
was it foxhunters that broke the pickets driving through with loads of coal
Reading some of the replies on here, quite possibly! 
TC:
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Reading some of the replies on here, quite possibly!
glad to see we are still in the majority of been against fox hunting.was pleasently surprised at the support i got after my little fracas with the hooting &tooting brigade e few weeks back.as a ex miner can i also expound a bit regarding the miners strike and the hunting ban. it will be interesting to see if the police use the same gestapo type methods they used on the mining communities on the hooting tooting types.or are we a different class.will be watching this very closely.
shogun:
I am basing all my above posts on facts…things I KNOW rather than things I have been told about by slightly biased animal rights extremists. If I want to know more about something then I go out & see it for myself…not rely on a biased opinion of a 3rd party. Therefore I can safely tell you that whoever tells you hunting is cruel and that foxes suffer lingering deaths is talking (zb) . I know this because I have been there…seen it for myself .Dave
Do the hunters in your aquaintance smear the new, young followers (i.e. 6 years of age) with the blood of the dead fox? Do they mutilate the corpse by removing the brush to keep as a trophy? The first happend to my brother in law and the second was witnessed by him.