Mrs May Admits Defeat On Hunting With Dogs

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42594068

A Manifesto promise made only a few months ago is now abandoned.

[woofgang]

Mikey she didnt think it up.....Cameron did the same thing.

[Old_Geezer]

Keeping your supporters onside isn't a difficult thing to think of. But die-hard supporters aren't going anywhere anyway. Maybe it was more about staying leader than winning votes/elections.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Its the Tory Party's inability to understand the public abhorrence of hunting wild animals with dogs that continues to surprise me.//

But Mrs May does understand it – that’s why she’s abandoned the vote.

//"As prime minister, my job isn't just about what I think about something, it's actually about looking at what the view of the country is," she said.//

Commendable I’d say.

(Do you know what Machiavellian means? I think not).

[naomi24]

ps. Not sure where the 'defeat' comes into this.

[emmie]

seems strange to me she is in favour of fox hunting, i wouldn't have thought so, but she is.

[naomi24]

She's the daughter of a country vicar, emmie. For a lot of country people hunting is part of their way of life.

[emmie]

i still think its barbaric, tearing a fox or other animals to pieces for the sake of sport!

[youngmafbog]

//The despicable Hunts have been riding roughshod over the existing legislation for too long now.//

So is your problemobile with hunts or are you claiming all hunts are still using dogs to hunt cutey wutey foxy woxy?

[webbo3]

Good, anyone that knows me will know what I think of this.

[Old_Geezer]

emmie at 9:44 sums it up for those confused. It's about moral behaviour.

[youngmafbog]

Can't really argue with that OG. The problem arises when certain people take it further to prevent people they see as toffs enjoying a day out. Without killing foxywoxy.

[naomi24]

emmie, //i still think its barbaric, tearing a fox or other animals to pieces for the sake of sport! //

I don't like it either. I was simply explaining why she isn't against it.

[Old_Geezer]

It's about trusting the "toffs" are just enjoying the ride over land they've permission to be on. The two sides tend to be cynical of the other's intentions.

[Kromovaracun]

May is incapable of keeping promises. If she promises to do something, track record suggests she will do exactly the opposite.

I don't support the ban on hunting regardless of how popular it is (popularity has nothing to do with being right). But it's clearly unassailable now.

[youngmafbog]

Yep you seem to have summed it up there OG.

Erhaps in the interim there should be independent checks until tryst is, more or less, gained by both sides.

[emmie]

so they revert to allow the hunts to go ahead, that would be unconscionable in my opinion, but what does that say about our country of so called animal lovers.

[emmie]

people who take part in the hunt are not all so called toffs, plenty of support from farmers in particular.

[youngmafbog]

Not sure what you mean emmie, I am suggesting hunting without the fox should be monitored until trus between both sides can be established.

[emmie]

ymb
but hunting is hunting, you must go after something, unless they use a dummy decoy, so the fox seems to be the prime target in the hunt.

[youngmafbog]

Not anymore Emmie. I suspect there are some rogue hunts still going after foxes. The majority don't.