OUR Government appears to have a straightforward no-nonsense desire to ban hunting, Labour backbench MPs and Ministers deeming it an unnecessary practice to be made a criminal offence at the earliest opportunity.
In simple terms, Labour says that they are the party that wants to ban hunting and save animals. Well, the facts tell a very different story.
For a start the Government employs five falconers with their birds of prey in London to hunt pigeons which are making a mess on the buildings around Whitehall.
Meanwhile, the shooting of 12 badgers in Brighton has been sanctioned because they are devaluing properties on an upmarket housing estate there.
What an extraordinary set of double standards this Government operates by. It wants to ban hunting in the countryside but not in the city. They are happily shooting a protected species for digging up a back garden but we can't use hounds to control the fox that kills farm animals. Forget democracy folks, hypocrisy is the way to govern.
P KING,
Bransford, near Worcester.
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