Don't scrap hunting ban
CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron has hunted foxes and reportedly enjoys shooting birds.
That is perhaps indicative of his true character.
The repeal of the 2004 Hunting Act was his first firm policy commitment, though most Conservative voters oppose this.
His shadow environment minister, Nick Herbert, is a former hare hunter and high up in the Countryside Alliance, an organisation primarily concerned with promoting blood sports.
The Tory party has received millions of pounds in funding from hunt supporters.
Many hunters have been recruited to campaign for the party in anti-hunt candidates' constituencies.
A ban on hunting wild mammals with dogs for so-called sport, long resisted by a tiny minority of powerful people, finally came after opinion polls had, for decades, shown it to be the will of the vast majority.
Some hunts continue to flout both the spirit and the letter of the law.
The act needs strengthening, but its repeal would legalise the barbaric chasing and killing of hares, deer and foxes with dogs for sport.
The Conservatives also plan a mass cull of badgers.
Vote to ensure these cruel and unjustifiable things don't happen.
Alan Kirby,
Protect Our Wild Animals,
Cardiff.
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