Posted on 11/28/2004 2:04:07 PM PST by UnklGene
Fox News -
The hunting ban is a victory for Britain's urban bullies.
BY LIONEL SHRIVER Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
LONDON--With Britain's Black Watch regiment camped in harm's way outside of Baghdad, the spectacle of Labour members of Parliament going rabid about banning fox hunting must have looked, at any distance, impenetrably quaint. Overriding the House of Lords by invoking the Parliament Act for only the fourth time since it was passed in 1911, antihunt MPs successfully closed down a centuries-old sport firmly fixed in the international imagination as quintessentially British.
But at issue is not merely the further erosion of the tourist's Britain, sad like the passing of the classic red phone box, and soon the double-decker bus. This ban is not about animal welfare but human warfare, and of the pettiest, ugliest sort...
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this article is brilliant.
Fox hunting is for wankers!
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