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We’re constantly told the debate about hunting is a matter of rural opinion vs urban opinion.
Well not according to this opinion poll by IPSOS MORI.
According to their survey, exactly the same percentage of rural inhabitants – 80% – are against fox hunting as urban inhabitants – also 80%.
And even more surprisingly, slightly more people who live in the country (89% and 94%) are against hare coursing and badger baiting than townies (87% and 92%).
The truth is that the Countryside Alliance and the National Farmers Union are NOT representative of rural opinion.
In fact the NFU is not even representative of farmers – they only represent a mere 18% of them, mostly the richest landowners:
Most farmers support the badger cull? Erm, no actually, they don’t.
But the question is, if the public in both rural and urban areas is so solidly against fox hunting, why are we still debating this issue and why are there so few prosecutions?
Could it be because the police and the courts are scared stiff of moving against the powerful people – the aristocratic and the rich – who still like to indulge in this cruel outdated activity?
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Pride's Purge 
They start them off as children on Shetland ponies, it’s like an initiation into an amoral mind-set.
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That’s true. As it was explained to me, they have to put with them smashing down hedges and fences, disturbing livestock and damaging crops. The trouble is they are tenant farmers and cant go uo against their landlord.
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Certainly town foxes can be a nuisance and badgers can ruin sporting facilities. A bit of commonsense would help rather than laws. Now where would we find commonsense these days?
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Common sense? down at the local! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This is extremely interesting and very, very important. I didn’t know that 80 per cent of people in rural Britain were against fox hunting. The fact simply wasn’t reported. On the other hand, there was a lot of publicity given to spokesmen of the NUF and Countryside Alliance about the so-called ‘democracy of the hunt’, how it was a deeply rooted rural tradition and the impression given that the people of the British countryside solidly supported it.
I’ve no doubt, however, that this finding is absolutely correct. One of my friends grew up on a farm, and he told me that the local hunt was roundly despised by many of the other farmers in the area. The people, who liked and followed the hounds were indeed the rich gentlemen farmers. One of the reasons they were hated, apart from the cruelty of hunting itself, was the simply fact that they believed they had an absolute right to charge through others’ property regardless of the rights and wishes of that landowner. When I was at College over twenty years ago, one of the other lads came from Exeter in Devon. He was very left-wing, with a deep hatred of the local hunt. One of the things they had done, which had caused shock and very deep resentment, was to pursue their quarry into a primary school playground, and then torn the animal’s head off in front of the terrified children. It became a scandal throughout the south-west.
And if we’re looking at it as rural vs town issue, we can actually now reverse the argument and turn it on the fox hunters themselves. During the 19th century many fox hunts were subscription hunts, that it is, you paid your money to join. And not all of their members came from the countryside, by any means. Many of them were respectable middle class types from the new, emerging towns, like Birmingham. So the question becomes whether we are looking at a genuinely authentic piece of rural England, or whether it’s a bit of the countryside falsely presented as such mostly as a piece of heritage tourism for well-heeled townies.
And no matter how you look at it, Oscar Wilde is still right: they are the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.
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Reblogged this on nearlydead.
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I have this suspicion that the Fox Hunter’s are really the current government in disguise…. the fox are the poor, vulnerable in society, working & middle class who aren’t happy with their lot; the hunt is led by IDS, May, Cameron, Osborne, Farage, the BANKS; the dogs are the DWP Job centre staff, Home Office staff, contractors of the new modern prisons, NHS re-do takeovers, the list is endless. We ask for honesty in leadership but it is no where to be found – except those few voices crying in the wilderness of political time warp.
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Reblogged this on amnesiaclinic and commented:
Fascinating – now why didn’t we hear this??????
Answers on a postcard!
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Blimey i remember helping Freinds of the Earth on their anti fox hunting campaign in the 70s and here we are still arguing the toss,
What i dont get is Tony Blecch in one interview claiming that the ban on fox hunting under his leadership was a milestone then years later saying the opposite almost as if he regretted it,
That guy doan make no sense to me.
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“Oscar Wilde is still right: they are the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”
I kid you not on TV a while back they had a TV chef showing you how to make a fox pie
Oh please how desparate can one get ?
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Reblogged this on markcatlin3695's Blog.
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Reblogged this on SMILING CARCASS'S TWO-PENNETH and commented:
Well, here’s the truth, folks.
Fox hunting is not only abhorrent in its concept and practice, it is also unpopular!
The wealthy not just chasing down small animals on the backs of huge horses with packs of hounds, but also riding (literally) roughshod over the rights of their tenant farmers, too afraid of the economic consequences to oppose them!
Well, bring your horse onto my garden in pursuit of a fox, and I’ll cripple ya, given half a chance.
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I live in the country and no one asked me or any friends, colleagues and neighbours, so have to guess the %’s were obtained from hand picked anti’s.
I don’t condone fox hunting, but I also don’t believe the distortions peddled by animal ‘activists’ many of whom cowardly hide their faces behind some sort of mask and are not above trying to harm a horse or dog.
Why so few persecutions (oops prosecutions) – simple – as a matter of policy, and to obey the law, fox hunts no longer chase foxes.
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Reblogged this on gingerblokeblog.
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If they brought back fox hunting they would not be chasing a dishrag it would be foxes .
Oh and you can rip out hedges and gas a few badgers and maim a bunch of otters whilst one is about it
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Ha!……U Know Tom
Sometimes I wonder?
Not for long! 🙂
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How can you call less than 3000 people the British Public? and the question is Fox hunting try and do the same poll with – Should you be prosecuted if you dog kills a mouse? That’s what the hunting act is about!
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It seems people have an issue with the “higher class” chasing foxes with hounds, yet the working class who own 100s of 1000s of lurchers and still work them regardless of the ban (which shows how unenforceable it is), it just shows how out of touch labour are with the working man/woman
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