Dress up, yes, but no more killings (From Worcester News)
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Dress up, yes, but no more killings
12:20pm Monday 24th January 2011 in Read
SIR – For once, Jon Burgess is correct regarding the freedom of the press to cover hunt meetings (Worcester News, January 14).
If people wish to dress up, have a social meeting and ride into the countryside – and can afford to do so – good luck to them.
However, where I disagree is what they want in return – to inflict cruelty and satisfy their bloodlust.
Rather than the Hunting Act being discredited, it is those who wish to return to barbarity who face being discredited.
The Government has too many other issues to deal with at present such as cuts, university fees and now a housing crisis, to pander to the 27 per cent of the population who are against the ban.
MRS M LARGE
Lower Wick
Comments(6)
tub_thumper
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10:30am Tue 25 Jan 11
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By agreeing to hunt meets you are effectively supporting them back into their bloodlust ways. If you saw the WN coverage you will see that under all that happy and jolly face they made a speech on banning the ban, thus trying to return to their sickening ways.
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What is 27% of the population? The population of Worcester, Worcestershire, the midlands, the whole country? You have shot yourself in the foot with that one. You make the anti-hunting community sound like the minority. Well done!
New Kid on the Block
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7:36pm Tue 25 Jan 11
tub_thumper
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10:53am Wed 26 Jan 11
New Kid on the Block wrote:Boxing Day 2006 (22 months after the ban), 320,000 turned out to support the hunt meets across England and Wales.
THe Burns Inquiry found that it was more like 27% of people who were in favour of a ban.
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The UK National Statistics revealed that on 1st July 2006 the population of England was 50,762,900. The population of Wales was 2,965,900. That’s a combination pupoulation of 53,728,800 people living in the Hunting ban area.
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320,000 hunt supporters may sound a lot but if you do the maths then you will work out that just under 0.6% of the population of England and Wales supported the ban in 2006. Compared to the overall population, this means nothing.
New Kid on the Block
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10:42pm Wed 26 Jan 11
If however you mean that 0.6% of the population of England and Wales turned out on Boxing Day 2006 to support hunt meetings I am not sure what statistical meaning you could derive from that.
How many people turn out to watch rugby matches and how many people believe it should be banned?
Just because someone doesn't turn out on boxing day it doesn't mean that they support the ban.
tub_thumper
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9:12am Thu 27 Jan 11
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0.6% of the population of England and Wales supported the meets and banning the ban on Boxing Day 2006. That means 99.4% of the rest of the population didn’t support the hunts. They were either anti-hunting people or couldn’t give a **** about hunting in the first place. That is a minority of people. A total ban should therefore be enforced.
tub_thumper
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9:17am Thu 27 Jan 11
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