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No one’s going to take hunting away from me

8:00am Wednesday 10th February 2010 in Read

SIR – Again we see in the Worcester News – letters page of Thursday, January 28 – another completely un-educated comment from the ranks of the totally out-of-touch public servants regarding the hunting debate. Who from this time you ask? None other than Councillor Alan Amos – you remember him and his faux pas – the idea of twinning the Faithful City with a war-torn Middle Eastern country.

He uses words such as “county snobs, obsessed and grotesque” to make his point.

What I really do find offensive, Mr Amos, is the way you say: “If a working class kid had been responsible he would be in court by now, wouldn’t he?”. For your information Coun Amos, I am and always will be a working class kid (raised in the very ward you serve) and I hunt and support hunting, and no one will take that away from me.

If you have never experienced something, how can you consider yourself to be suitably qualified to have any sort of useful contribution to make?

Mr and Mrs T Shenton
(hunting in Costswold Vale farmers’country)
Ross-on-Wye
Herefordshire

Comments(7)

BarryB says...
4:53pm Wed 10 Feb 10

I have little time for Councillor Amos's politics and I support possibly the same party that these pair do and that's where I leave them. I do not support hunting and if these people normally communicate via open letters in this tone, I would imagine they will induce other people to think like me.
Give them both barrels in reply Councillor Amos, not for being pro hunting but for the manner/content of their letter.

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nebhunting says...
12:28pm Thu 11 Feb 10

What a strange way for BarryB to answer the letter, for the content and manner, BarryB you have a problem, ever thought of recieving treatment for it

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BarryB says...
5:01pm Thu 11 Feb 10

No, funnilly enough I haven't, in any event, I understand that there is one heck of crowd of fox hunters waiting for the attention of the whitecoats and trick cyclists, nobody else can get in.

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New Kid on the Block says...
8:18pm Thu 11 Feb 10

nebhunting as you have obviously realised BarryB has a strange affliction. At the mention of hunting all semblance of common sense deserts him, and it is replaced by a desire to make any derogatory remark he can think of.
I dont know what the effect will be when the forthcoming conservative government announces a date for a vote on the future of the act.

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BarryB says...
9:02pm Thu 11 Feb 10

Now, come on New Kid (and by the way, what's this "NEW" - you are an old poster now). it was nebhunting (strange name) who said that I needed treatment first, I merely replied to him. If you come up with comments like that I will be thinking that the foxhunters have reverted to type and are twisting the facts again.
If the Tories support foxhunting (and not all of them do - let's get that in) that is no reason why I should not vote for them, everything else considered, and if this unholy shower of Labour oppose foxhunting that is no reason why I should vote for them, indeed, even if they give me an extra 25p a week on my pension when I reach 80, I still wouldn't vote for them.
I still feed a family of foxes near my place and if I see a dog or a red coat anywhere near them, world war 2 and a half will be declared.

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New Kid on the Block says...
6:56pm Fri 12 Feb 10

BarryB you may not be the only one replying to nebhunting on this open forum. The very mention of hunting does seem to markedly raise the level of vitriol in your comments. So I fail to see that I am in any way twisting the facts.
I can see no point in my changing my name. In fact I suspect that I may be younger than a great many people who post here so to many of them I will always be a “new kid”.
I would not presume to tell you how to vote though I certainly agree with you that the sooner the present shower are removed the better.
If the foxes you feed are in town the biggest danger they face is probably the motor car. Out of town the same holds with the next danger being a man with a gun.

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pafcscotty says...
10:48am Mon 15 Feb 10

I dislike hunting intently; however I dislike Michael Foster even more for getting the UK parliament to spend hundreds of hours debating fox hunting when there were far more important things that could have been debated...and which could have led to more important statutes being passed.

Foster is a self-serving publicist (for whom I stupidly voted) who, in my opinion was a typical townie trying to win votes in his urban constituency at the expense of many Conservative rural constituents.

Saying that, I also hate the fact that huntsmen on horseback or quads seem to cross any land, whether they have permission or not. I think trespass laws seem to hold no fear for them!

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