IT seems that Tom Wells and Richard Chamings were none too pleased with the amount of parliamentary time spent over the Foxhunting Bill.

I agree that there are more pressing issues with which the British Government could have concerned itself.

But party politics aside, the foxhunting issue reached the Commons Statutory book by public demand.

Any waste of parliamentary time was largely due to the House of Lords.

This body of un-elected representatives objected to the Foxhunting Bill right from the start and they fought it tooth-and-nail, because some of them have a vested interest as participants or followers of this barbaric sport.

Perhaps in future, Mr Chamings should look at the waste of time, money and self-interest in this country's own Mother of Parliaments, before taking issue and criticise the Eurocrats in Brussels.

L SPITERI, Worcester.