No fox hunting for Beet :)

[Jackal1]

I read where they had banned fox hunting in England.
  What is next to be taken away?

[Saintaw]

"Fox hunting is the unnameable hunting the uneatable" (need 3rd party speeling check on that one...). That's not from me, I beleive it's from James Joyce.

[Swoop]

The law doesn't change until next year.  However, even when it does you can still hunt foxes, only then you'll have to do it with a shotgun instead of on a horse with a pack of dogs.

[ra]

Until they ban the shotguns.

[Jackal1]

[vorticon]

i have the feeling that with the way britain is going, they will end up hunting bad words with slippers while riding around on there husbands.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Jackal1
I read where they had banned fox hunting in England.
  What is next to be taken away?

Smoking! It's due to be banned in all public places from 2006.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by vorticon
i have the feeling that with the way britain is going, they will end up hunting bad words with slippers while riding around on there husbands.

ROFL Vorticon! Yep, well I warned of the folly of voting Labour, but my advice went unheeded by many in 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair's government is all about banning things and controlling people's lives. Here's an editorial from yesterday's Telegraph. The last line cracked me up!

Source here

A load of old Bills – and more to come next year
(Filed: 18/11/2004)

The Government has been bulk-buying at the legislation shop, and, as so often when the Christmas season approaches, it's nothing but Bills, Bills, Bills. There is scarcely time to read all the Bills, let alone debate them before the end of the parliamentary session. Tomorrow is positively the last day of the sale and everything must go through. Here are some of the really bad bargains.

 
 
The Civil Contingencies Bill. If "something happens", the Government will be able to repeal or suspend any Act, apart from the Human Rights Act. The Lords tried this week to preserve Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights (1689), but the Government insisted they might have to be dumped, too.

The Hunting Bill. The Lords won't pass this, but it will be deemed to have passed, thanks to the provisions of the Parliament Act, unless these are found in this case to be unlawful.

The Housing Bill. This will make compulsory a "seller's pack", costing hundreds of pounds, if a house is so much as offered for sale. The pack has been so designed that it won't do what people want it to, but will do things they do not want.

The Children Bill. This still allows you to smack your child, but not too hard.

The Civil Partnership Bill. This grants rights, similar to those enjoyed by married couples, to cohabiting homosexuals, but not to maiden sisters.

The Mental Capacity Bill. This will prohibit doctors keeping incapacitated people alive, even by giving them water, if a "living will" or a court-appointed deputy or lasting attorney requires life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn.

The Anti-Social Behaviour Bill. This gives additional powers to "community support officers" - those people who dress like policemen, but aren't - to confiscate alcohol.

The Pensions Bill. The Government threw out a Lords amendment that would have removed the obligation for people to buy an annuity, before they are 75, with three quarters of the money they have saved up for a pension.

And next week, it all starts again, when the Queen's Speech unveils the new season's latest fashions. A must-have accessory will be the Blunkett-label ID card; it comes, whether you want it or not, with your passport when you renew it, for an enhanced price, of course. In the New Year, we can look forward to being stopped from smoking cigarettes in pubs if they sell hot pies, and our children will have to stay up until after 9pm if they want to see advertisements for salty food between the spicy reality programmes.

It makes you glad to live in a free democracy.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Saintaw
"Fox hunting is the unnameable hunting the uneatable" (need 3rd party speeling check on that one...). That's not from me, I beleive it's from James Joyce.

Actually it goes:

The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.
Noel Coward

James Joyce was never that witty.

[Furball]

the reason it is being banned it because the vast majority of the nation want it to be.

democracy anyone?

[Darkish]

The vast majority are city dwellers.

[Chortle]

We can still take photos of trains though.

[Dowding]

Vast majority, Furball? When was this referendum about fox hunting? Polls mean nowt.

The question shouldn't be:

"Is fox hunting evil and the equivalent of paedophilia?"

It shoud be:

"Should any parliamentary time be spent on this issue, instead the slightly more pressing problems that face the UK today?"

Blair nannying at its finest, with a soupcon of popularist idiocy.

Blair out in 2005.

[BUG_EAF322]

That fox hunting is an ugly tradition

running down 1 fox with a bunch of blood hounds to tear it apart

what the totally tubular fun about it anyway ??

Its'time for spain now to stop the bullfighting

[BlueJ1]