Is david camerons promise to re-legalise fox-hunting a wise move?

It will do no real good nor any real bad. I think we should all just get on with the real problems of corruption and warmongering by the current administration and ignore a few left wing people that find this sport in which very few foxes ever die offensive. If the current administration found blood sports so deeply offensive themselves they would have banned the shooting/trapping of birds and rabbits as well. They didn't. The banning of the hunt was a move totally motivated by a form of inverted snobbery. It is a traditional meet of the upper classes and this was seen as not in line with the party. It was nothing to do with crusty middle class kids with dreadlocks chaining themselves to horses, nor did it have anything to do with the ';suffering of the foxes.'; This issue may seem dead but it isn't. When otter numbers became threatened we stopped otter hunting, that is fair, fox numbers are now increasing and they still impose this little and petty piece of legislation. We even stopped rabbit hunts during the myxomatosis crisis in the 70s and 80s, now rabbits are back to their original number and increasing it is allowed again. I think people with these rather idealised views about hunting in all of its forms need to come out to areas where foxes kill chickens, geese and ducks and see for themselves what a menace they actually are. I bet you still lay rat traps if you have a rat problem!!Is david camerons promise to re-legalise fox-hunting a wise move?
No. He is trying to get the countryside vote who are going to vote Tory anyway. Therefore he is just going to alienate the floaters who quite rightly support a ban on this barbaric activity.Is david camerons promise to re-legalise fox-hunting a wise move?
No, Is Tony Blair's staunch (and sickening) support of Huntingdon Life Sciences and it's scientifically flawed experiments on primates a wise move?
Only with the country-set (a minority group).





David Cameron is a total idiot. If he fights the next general election as Tory leader, then we're almost guaranteed another Labour government.
No! If it becomes legal again I will have to stop shooting them which will peve me right off.
Not amongst CIVILISED society. However, the words ';CONSERVATIVE PARTY'; and ';CIVILISED';, are, clearly, ALIEN, to ';ORDINARY'; people!
If he wants to get the contryside vote, then yes. And probably raise party funds too. But i'd imagine he'd do himself and his party more harm than good.
he should legalise Blair hunting first...
No it is not a wise move but a predictable one for the Consevative party leader to make.





He is only loking after (a minority) of tory voters who were invlved in that kind of thing.
I don't know who he is tiring to impress, but he is making a lot of trouble for himself with that one.
Cameron on Talk Radio on 1st May was his usual weasel self when asked if he would legalise hunting:





Cameron: What we鈥檝e said is we鈥檇 give, in a new Parliament, we鈥檇 give MPs a free vote on overturning the hunting ban and if the vote went through there鈥檇 be a government bill in government time to get rid of it. I mean my own view is that the ban isn鈥檛 working. It鈥檚 a farce really. We鈥檝e passed a law in this country that everyone is openly flouting and it makes the law look stupid.





Jon Gaunt (interviewer): And you鈥檙e a hunter yourself?





DC: I have been in the past.





JG: Would you in the future?





DC: Well I don鈥檛 really get much time.





JG: Don鈥檛 sit on the fence. Would you, if you had a weekend off, go hunting? Say yes or no.





DC: I would, I mean I enjoy riding鈥?br>




JG: You don鈥檛 see anything wrong with it, you enjoy it?





DC: No, I don鈥檛 see anything wrong with it at all.





Cameron has tried to equate fox hunting, as a sport, with shooting and fishing. I'll go for that one when I see him eat one of the foxes he's hunted!