Fox Hunting...

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I'd ban it. Personally I cannot stand those arrogant inbred upper class twits. Haven't they got anything better to do than charge around our countryside after furry animals? Perhaps they should try working for a living like the rest of us.

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Lol, Lewis!

Well, i say know. Why should anyone be banned from hunting in their own land?

It's not just a matter of hunting Bono. It's all to do with the class system. All hunting sports which the 'common people' used to participate in, were banned years ago. The only reason fox hunting escaped was because that's the sport of the aristocracy. i.e brainless inbreds.
You either ban all or none. You can't just keep one or two just because Prince Charles and a handful of poshos do it. Ban it.

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I'd ban it. Personally I cannot stand those arrogant inbred upper class twits. Haven't they got anything better to do than charge around our countryside after furry animals? Perhaps they should try working for a living like the rest of us.

You seem to have really fascist leanings my friend.
Just because you don't like the, does that mean they should be banned from haunting in their land, with their hounds and their horses?

It's hypocrisy. These people were IN FAVOUR of banning hare coursing, badger baiting, cock fighting etc. These are no-more cruel than fox hunting. The only difference is that aristocrats do the latter, that's why it's still legal. One law for us and one for the royal family and their inbred relatives.

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I'd ban it. Personally I cannot stand those arrogant inbred upper class twits. Haven't they got anything better to do than charge around our countryside after furry animals? Perhaps they should try working for a living like the rest of us.

You seem to have really fascist leanings my friend.
Just because you don't like the, does that mean they should be banned from haunting in their land, with their hounds and their horses?

It isn't their land. It's OUR land and they STOLE it from us.

Too right they they did! The US would never tolerate the situation we have in Britain. Royalty still own most of the land in Britain. Land that they seized off peasants and workers up and down the UK.

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Michael Z, how right you are. I've had the misfortune of meeting some of these toffs. They quite happily rant about poor people, immigrants, gays and the working class. Yes, the WORKING class! The irony! Like these inbreds have ever done a days work in their lives!
Yet as soon as those infernal commoners in the Labour party try to ban THEIR God-given right to kill furry animals there's absolute uproar!
The mind-blowing hypocrisy of these people! I'd initiate Zimbabwe style land-grabs if I was Tony Blair.

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So all this class stereotyping is the reason behind all the fuss. Right?

Yes. In Britain everything is always about class.

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Pro-Hunting protesters are throwing bottles at the Police outside Parliament.
Could be a riot.

Well, Kudos for them, the pigs deserve a hard time.(not only british pigs, but pigs everywhere.)

Hell, don't bring pigs into it. Some of those country type are partial to that sort of thing!

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The protest has degenerated into a drunken riot

Ha ha! Good.
Bring in the Army I say!  

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What is amusing is the fact that Parliament actually banned the hunting of foxes, and that it was some sort of huge deal over there.

In the UK there is an increasingly MASSIVE gulf between multicultural modern urban Britain and conservative rural Britain. Basically that's what it's about. It's about urban Britain getting it's revenge on rural areas for the Tory 1980's and before.
These 'countryside alliance' people stood back and laughed when the steelworkers and miners lost their jobs and riots ripped our cities apart. Now it's payback time.
Like I said, it's more of a class issue than a fox or animal rights one.

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I don't think anybody outside the British Isles actually cares...

You are right about that!

I can understand why people outside Britain are a little bemused. Why would anyone be bothered about hunting? The fact is, it's not about hunting. It's a class, urban Vs rural thing. The industrial, urban regions suffered terribly in the 1980's and now they want revenge.

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This ban is absurd and offensive.

What the British should ban is football.

LOL. Actually, that would make more sense wouldn't it? The argument is far stronger.

As for Britain being a monarchy, well technically it is a constitutional monarchy by way of its Constitution but the Government pay only lip service (if that) to it. Our form of government has degraded into a democracy which is fast becoming a tyranny (as have all democracies in history that have not fallen into anarchy).

I do not believe democracy (the rule of the majority) or monarchy (the rule of the one) is good. It should be the rule of law (a republic) if you ask me.

However, the British Constitution is a limited monarchy that comprises many good principles and procedures and, in my opinion, if it were stuck to, it would be only surpassed by the US Constitution in its original form and intent as a Constituion.



Dubhdara.

Tyranny? Like the Thatcher 80's you mean?
That's the nearest Britain has ever come to a tyranical dictatorship!