Foxhunting Baby!

... Foxhunting Baby! Twenty years ago fox hunting was not even an issue on the English political scene. This is not because it was a new activity; it has been going on for three hundred years. What has changed is that a relatively small group of deeply committed people have managed a skilful, dedicated and awesomely expensive campaign to persuade millions of others to their point of view of hostility to the practice. Deeply held views based on profound study and a body of factual evidence one must respect. If I ask you to consider this Bill with deep suspicion it is because the media campaign and the vast majority of those who have fallen for it share, apart from their opinion, an extraordinary ignorance of the complexities of the ecology of our countryside and forces at work. It is a fact that zoologists the world over, if they wish to

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