Government ‘committed’ to banning trail hunting

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mrj3r30nno

by topotaul

30 comments
  1. Until the police actually bother enforcing the ban nothing will change unfortunately, these hunts seem to be able to act totally above the law as of it doesn’t apply to them for some reason

  2. This is blatant far left extremism. If this happened to a non white culture it would be condemned by the UN.

  3. > Further changes to the law have been criticised as “completely unjustified”, with the Countryside Alliance saying trail hunting is a legal activity that brings rural communities together.

    Is there any moral difference between enjoying watching dogs rip foxes to shreds and cock fighting?

  4. This is just going to rile the toffs even more.

    I love it.

  5. As much as I agree with this I feel like there are bigger things to focus on rn…

  6. This is good news. I’ve lived in the countryside all my life and in places that had hunts. Contrary to the Countryside Alliance’s claim that this is a town Vs village argument it isn’t. I realise I’m a sample of one, but vanishingly few people I’ve met in the countryside support fox hunting. Furthermore, most of the people on the hunts weren’t even local – more likely to be from big towns.

  7. Legalise weed and use the saved policing money to enforce this ban. That’s what I say

  8. Excuse the ignorance, but why the push to ban trail hunting? Who is it harming? Isn’t the point that it’s just a scent laid down, as opposed to live animals being chased? 

  9. might be a silly question but 12,000 hunting days, am I not understanding something here I thought there was only 365 days a year not over 12,000?

    “The alliance’s chief executive, Tim Bonner, said the ban would be an “act of spite” that would be negatively received by the countryside.

    He said there were 12,000 hunting days each year that are legal and legitimate.”

  10. If Farage and pals are so keen on it lets coat them in fox urine and set the hounds on their trail. Im sure they would be keen to keep up the tradition and after all the hounds NEVER get vicious do they…

  11. If hunts hadn’t been flagrantly hunting foxes all this time they probably wouldn’t have had anything to worry about.

  12. Reported a fox hunt Christmas Eve, was happening at the time, police weren’t interested

  13. Seems like a pretty easy thing to do if you have such a large majority…

  14. My autistic nephew and his mum were out walking when a bunch of shitheads from The Milton Estate surrounded them with barking dogs and horses. They think they also had a shotgun.

    They slowly closed in on them before leading them back to their car and off the public right of way they were illegally hunting on.

    My nephew was terrified for hours. I wanted to get my hands on them but it was reported to the police who did absolutely nothing.

    So many of these people should be in jail.

    For clarity, it was the shit eating, animal torturing, moldy cunt flap loving MILTON ESTATE.

  15. Any activity apart from work needs to be banned. That is the way forward.

  16. I hope everyone realises trail hunting is not fox hunting. They send a runner out with a scent and the dogs chase the runner with the hunt. No foxes involved. It’s just a sport at this point I don’t see why it should be banned if there is nothing cruel happening.

  17. Where there is evidence of animals being harmed in trail hunts the police absolutely should investigate if they have the resources; but as it stands I can think of a great many crimes that should take higher priority.

    I see this as political posturing to erase a tradition that riles up Labour core voters.

  18. Time to finish what labour originally started.

    Consign hunting in whatever form to history.

  19. £100k fine. Each time. And make it so that the local police can get a cut of the fines too.

  20. Yay, more things to be nominally banned and not be enforced.

    You guys know fox hunting is completely legal in Northern Ireland right?

    any toff with money and who seeks to avoid the non existent law enforcement can go there.

    This is nothing more than an attempt to prevent Leftists within the party going over to Corbyn’s new little band, I suspect it will cost him more seats than it could possibly retain him as it seems Labour is determined to make sure it never wins a seat in rural Britain again.

    I’d prefer our conservation efforts going to well, literally any other more endangered or ecologically important animal, I’d particularly favour birds, fighting the climate crisis on a practical basis means wind power and lots of it. One of the few actual negative side effects of the things (never really got why people say they are ugly) is that they kill birds, additional conservation funding should be able to deal with or at least mitigate this negative side effect of our energy transition.

  21. In other words nothing will be done.

    And we all know it.

  22. “Trail hunting” *is* fox hunting.

    Any sab will tell you. These people quite literally laugh at the loophole-addled hunting act at their meetings.

  23. Correct me if I’m wrong but this isn’t actually fox hunting right? That was banned ages ago?

    I just watched the 10 o’clock news and trail hunting has replaced fox hunting, meaning that no animals are actually hunted on the day?

  24. The last 7 governments have been “committed” to banning it

  25. You could just replace foxes with nonces and keep everyone happy 

  26. I hope they are specific with this.

    There is a dog sport called hound trailing where the dogs are given a scent to follow and the run cross country in a race.

    And then theres fox hunting.

    One is a genuine dog sport where the dogs are trained to follow an odour only, wear gps collars in case they get lost and are vigorously trained to ignore all distractions and follow a specific scent for miles.

    While the other is rich toffs on horses ‘trailing’ when in reality they are fox hunting on private land and treat their animals like shit.

  27. They could ban it with a stroke of a pen, but they won’t

  28. Like they were commited to waspi, lowering taxes, growing the economy and blah blah blah

  29. I’ve seen so many posts on Facebook about ongoing hunts. The people that take part in them are nothing short of psychopaths.

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