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  6. who are we all voting for ?

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    THE VIDEO LABOUR DID NOT WANT LEAKED.

    IF THIS IS NOT A CLEAR INTENT TO TAKE OVER OUR COUNTRY, THEN I ASK YOU......WHAT MORE WILL IT TAKE YOU TO WAKE UP? MAYBE IF YOU'RE BEHEADED. BUT YOU'RE AWAKENING WILL BE A SHORT & PAINFUL ONE. THIS IS AN ELECTION YEAR. ...

  8. who are we all voting for ?

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    You are browsing the archive for Hunting.

    High Court delivers new blow to the Hunting Act

    February 6, 2009

     

    A news report by the ‘Countryside Alliance:

     

    Many of you will be aware of all or part of the story of Tony Wright, the first huntsman to be prosecuted under the Hunting Act, but after his victory in the High Court on Wednesday, it is worth repeating. Tony’s story is very much the story of the demise of the Act.

     

    A few weeks after the Hunting Act came into force in February 2005 Tony, huntsman of the Exmoor Foxhounds, took two hounds from the kennels near the village of Simonsbath to a meet at Prayway Head. He was setting in train a chain of events that would lead, four years later, to the High Court and yesterday’s judgement that has brought the repeal of that law significantly closer.

     

    Six months later he was served with a summons to face a private prosecution by the League Against Cruel Sports. A Magistrates Court in Barnstaple found him guilty, despite the fact that he was very publicly using just two hounds to flush foxes to a gun as he thought the law allowed. He appealed, and in December 2007 the Crown Court in Exeter threw out his conviction finding that he had been hunting legally and observing that the Hunting Act “is far from simple to interpret or to applyâ€.

     

    That was not, however, the end of the case. Two other courts were due to hear cases, including one against the Devon and Somerset Stag-hounds who also became party to the judgement, and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) appealed to try and clarify some of the confusion. The appeal reached the High Court before Christmas where the CPS argued that it should be for people like Tony carrying out exempt hunting to prove that they were hunting legally and that the mere act of searching for a mammal should be included in the offence of ‘hunting’.

     

    Yesterday the High Court rejected that appeal and upheld the judgement that acquitted Tony Wright. In legal terms the judgement limits the definition of ‘hunting’ to the pursuit of a mammal with dogs; it upholds the presumption of innocence for people involved in legal hunting by putting the burden of proof on the prosecution to prove that any hunting is illegal; and it confirms that ‘hunting’ can only be intentional – you cannot hunt by accident.

     

    In practical terms the ruling will make the prosecution of those involved in exempt hunting much more difficult. The CPS argued in court that if it lost this appeal “prosecutions under the 2004 Act would rarely be viableâ€. Only three hunts have been successfully prosecuted since the Act came into force in 2005, and 5 people connected to them have been convicted. If prosecutors do not regard the Act as viable then there may now be even fewer cases. The police, meanwhile, will be left wondering how to enforce the unenforceable.

     

    In political terms the judgement brought a barrage of comment on the failure of the Hunting Act and the need for repeal headed by powerful editorials in the Times and the Telegraph.

     

    Four years of confusion have led politicians of all parties to realise that, whatever their views on hunting, the Hunting Act has failed. Repeal of the Act has moved from a possibility to a probability and it is now incumbent on all of us to follow Tony’s lead and do our part in the final push towards repeal. There is a maximum of 483 days to the next election and in that time no-one must be left in any doubt of our commitment, or of the unarguable case for repeal.

     

    The Act must be repealed so that when Tony Wright takes the Exmoor hounds to Pray Way Head in two years time he does not have to worry about whether his hunting is legal, whether there is an animal rights activist covertly filming him, or whether he will face another vindictive prosecution.

     

    Further information via this link

     

     

    Posted in Heritage, Hunting | Comments Off

     

    ZaNu Labour’s Marxist class hatred and the hunting ban

    November 26, 2008

    For a number of years now we, at Land & People, have been telling you that ZaNu Labour’s motivation in the introduction of anti-hunt legislation was “traditional†Marxist class hatred pure and simple. All their talk about “animal welfare†being just more of the dishonest spin one expects from this gang of self-serving spivs and proven through their support for the most prolific form of animal abuse in Britain today – ritual slaughter!

     

    And, of course, we are not the only people alert to ZaNu Labour duplicity as the following piece from a Countryside Alliance document shows:

     

    “You might have missed it but last week saw another significant landmark in the campaign for the repeal of the Hunting Act. Just as, shortly after the Act was passed, then Labour MP Peter Bradley’s statement that the Hunting Act was about “class war†was an admission of something that we had known for a very long time, another Labour MP has now confessed.

     

    John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington and Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, has owned up to the least surprising error of the decade. The Hunting Act, he says: “took a long time. There was a lot of discussion. We thought we got it right, but we clearly haven’t in this instanceâ€.

     

    So there we are. 700 hours of parliamentary time, a ‘totemic’ issue for the Labour party and the use of the Parliament Acts has got us, just three and a half years later, to a point where even the Act’s most vociferous supporters are admitting that it doesn’t work. ‘We told you so’, is not exactly original but what else is there to say?â€

     

    For the record, neither Land & People nor the British National Party have a policy on hunting – this being a matter of choice, rather than of oversight. This is because, in our opinion, issues of this nature are best left to local communities to resolve, preferable through the democratic device of local referenda. This is not a matter for national government and certainly not one that justifies the use (abuse!) of the Parliament Act!

     

    Posted in Animal Welfare, Hunting | No Comments »

     

    Policy briefing: Fox hunting & religious slaughter

    October 21, 2008

    We have recently had a number of queries (from both sides of the “divideâ€) as to where we stand on fox hunting. To that end we publish the following response.

     

    Neither the Countrysider nor Land & People endorse hunting with hounds – we merely point out the hypocrisy surrounding Labour voting to ban fox-hunting on alleged animal cruelty grounds, whilst ignoring the far more prolific example of animal abuse enshrined in vile ritual slaughter. In so doing we are following Party policy – which has it that the BNP is neutral on the issue of fox hunting, does not believe it is the role of national government to legislate on such issues and further – that such issues are best resolved by the communities affected – advisedly through the use of local referendum.

     

    As regards religious slaughter we would point out that the Law already prohibits the slaughter of animals in our abattoirs without prestunning, for the laudable reasons of reducing suffering and trauma for the beasts concerned. The ritual slaughter exemption, granted purely for political/social reasons, is clearly contrary to the spirit and intent of the Law and as such is unacceptable in any civilized society. Consequently, the BNP will legislate for the removal of this exemption, making it illegal in this country to slaughter any beast, without exception, in the absence of prescribed prestunning.

     

    Posted in Animal Welfare, Halal, Hunting, Policy briefings | 1 Comment »

     

    Labour doesn’t give a hoot about animal welfare

    July 31, 2008

    THE LABOUR Government’s ban on hunting with dogs has nothing whatsoever to do with animal welfare.

     

    No government which encourages supermarket cartels to squeeze farmers so ruthlessly that they have to resort to factory farming – rearing chickens in such appalling conditions that 100,000 die of disease, injury or stress every week – has the right to criticise fox-hunters.

     

    No government that exalts Islam as a wonderful religion and turns a blind eye to the brutal ritual slaughter of millions of defenceless herbivores has the right to use essentially emergency legislation to protect a few thousand beautiful, but ruthless, carnivores from the possibility of being chased and caught by hounds.

     

    Labour doesn’t care about animal welfare.

     

    The banning of fox-hunting was about a Prime Minister under pressure, desperately trying to bribe a handful of disgruntled extreme left-wing Labour MPs to back him at the next General Election.

     

    It’s also about old-fashioned Marxist class warfare and Labour’s great ambition – the Abolition of Britain by the systematic dismantling of its identity and traditions.

  10. Maggie hung up on barbed wire

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    my'n and a pals pup wasnt even jumping and manage to get court up in some barb wire just last week running near a fence and the :censored: stuf was rolled up only my pup got hurt big gash down front leg :doh: the blasted stuff shud be band. that last pic on hear maid me feel sick and very angry at the same time. glad she healed so well and hope the knee heals well 2

  16. hi im also new on here

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    hi all a bit bout me i mainly go lamping but enjoy a good day time mooch live in leeds got 2 bed crosses 1 a rough coat 22.5" other smooth 19" the little 1 is only 12 month not done much yet but showing alot off intrest and very eager the other f ing loves it altho this season been a bit icey for my likeing hopeing for better one this year. been getting to grips with the site read a story bout boar hunting on here wow want to def give that ago does any one know bout any organised red deer hunt if so can you send me sum info on prices and were bouts ect ect thanks :thumbs:

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