I’m listening to David Cameron on BBC3 Dermot Meets David Cameron and realised a Conservative ‘untruth’.
David Cameron is talking about a Big Society (which is total waffle IMO) and said they want to listen to the people and if they gain power after May 6th they’ll bring in the ability for the British people to create petitions that if enough people vote for (5% I believe) the Conservative government will debate the petition in parliament and presumably bring it into power.
Sounds great right.
Are we forgetting the Labour ban of fox hunting?
Conservatives Plan to Allow Fox Hunting
We’ve had a vote in parliament that banned fox hunting, the Conservatives in the House of Lords tried to block it: which they are not supposed to do (the House of Lords was acting undemocratic) since banning fox hunting was part of the Labour election manifesto and so the Speaker of the House had to use a rarely used power to push the new legislation through!
So the people have spoken, we voted for Labour and one of their promises was to ban fox hunting which is exactly what we got.
Polls shows around 75% of British people agree with the fox hunting ban. That is a clear majority and yet the Conservatives intend if they gain power to take another look at this legislation and give the house a free vote on fox hunting, basically if the Conservatives have a clear majority fox hunting will be part of the British countryside again!!!
Does this not mean when fox hunting is allowed again we’ll inevitably get a ban fox hunting petition and it will not be hard to get 5% of people to vote on a ban fox hunting petition.
Will this mean in the space of one parliament the Conservatives will both remove the ban on fox hunting and then because the people don’t want fox hunting, ban fox hunting again?
David Cameron also said we’ll be able to vote against a rise in our council tax. Hmm, anyone here want their council tax to go up?
Bloody stupid idea and there is no way they will allow us to stop tax rises etc… because 5% of us don’t like something.
97 responses to Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting
Fact! Not all conservatives support fox hunting!
Fact! Steph,you are an embarrassment to your party!
The vast majority of the electorate have consistanly objected to fox hunting with dogs. The Burns report could not justify fox hunting as a way of controlling fox numbers. To want to repeal the Act is only going to show that cruelty is acceptable.
Fox hunting is a tradishion steeped in history and a proven way of killing old and weak foxes. It has workes for 350 years why stop it now? Labour dose not know how the countaryside works so should keep out of rural afares!
Sorry at 13 my spelling is not great.
You people have no idia how the countary workes
KEEP HUNTING!!!!!!
Angus (13)
The main of the people on this page seem to like hunting, say 59% say KEEP HUNTING!
baird (13)
Looking at the comments of hunting supporters, I am left speechless and angry. It makes me wonder what century you people live in! I suggest that YOU don’t know how the countryside ‘workes’ and can assure you that most country dwellers disaprove of Hunting entierly. I was brought up on a farm in rural cheshire, and have had no experience of hunting in the countryside. You are the last of a dwindling number of tory aristocrats, who cannot stand any sort of in fingement on your historic rights! I am distressed that a ’13′ year old should have such archaic veiws, I expected better from this generation. I hope your hunting dogs get run over you faschis pig!
COME THE REVOLUTION !
Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting
¡Viva la Revolucion!
I think this foxes thing sucks, why are the government banning educational maitenance allowance? poorer people in scotland need it for EDUCATIONAL REASONS! CONSERVATIVE SUCK! BRING BACK LABOUR! DAVID CAMERON IS A RUBBISH PM!
The hunting ban has made no difference in Wales where hunting continues unchanged and unchallenged
This is actually rather hilarious and quite childish. I don’t want everyone to be Pro-hunting, it’s entirely up to the individual what they choose to do with their life. So those who do not live in the country side, those who have never been hunting before are quite clearly uneducated on the subject and therefore should stay out the matter. Obviously not everyone will ever be in agreement with each other but to have Hunting banned, has brought about consequences for both parties involved in the ban. Fact of the matter is that Foxes HAVE to be culled, not all of them that’s not at all our aim, but to keep the numbers steady, anyway foxes can still withstand a seventy percent loss to their population and with in a year have recovered to their original numbers. However now hunting with Hounds has been banned they can only be used for flushing purposes, therefore we have to shoot the foxes which without a doubt is a more effective way of culling them, with hounds it more of a natural selection method if you like, as the young, fit, healthy foxes always get away and that’s fine because they’re the ones that take rabbits and such like unlike unhealthy foxes that take young livestock and chickens. I’m only sixteen and I’ve formed my own opinion on common sense, I could go on…….. it is done for a reason.
Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting
Fox hunting is cruel and barbaric, anyone agains’t it should sign here
http://www.backtheban.com/
If this was made clear in their manifesto I would have voted for a different party.
Fox hunting is beneficial for the people and animals of the countryside
I bet your from the city?
have you ever been fox hunting?
Fox hunting is beneficial for the people and animals of the countryside, and what you dont know is that its actually not cruel and cannot be proved to be..
and the argument.. 75% of the public agree with the ban…. well thats because 79% of people in the Uk live in Urban area.
Foxes are bad for the country-- and think about headline in the news how babies have been mauled be intruding foxes ect.
The conservatives are right to do what they are doing and Labour? -- arent they the ones who got us into all this mess
Honestly you have to think about it all from a distance and take in everything,, not just what you want to beleive
Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting
The bigger picture.
Any movement towards or away from fox hunting will be slow and take place over many many years. Looking at the bigger picture, it seems that the tide is moving only one way, towards a more compassionate society, and away from animal persecution. The fox hunting ban was just one small step in this direction, irrespective of whether it works or not.
Last year i heard for the first time, the question asked in Spain “is bull fighting right or wrong?” Just the first step, but it means that ultimately it is doomed. It may take a hundred years..
David Cameron is a clever politician. He knows that to repeal the hunting ban, or to even try but fail will lead to him being a one term prime minister. This explains his “nonchalant” mood when he has spoken about the matter recently. Labour were a down and out party at the last general election, Gordon Brown was a man who just “wanted to get the hell out of there”. Yet still the conservatives could not win. Conservative MPs are now beginning to change their stance on hunting, so i don’t think we need fear it being made legal again.
Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting
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