Sounds like yours is better organised than our local one was (back in a village called Henham in Essex) it always seemed to be more of a fashion show for the riders and horses anyway.
Genuine village people around here don't want hunting and would much rather something was done about housing, transport, employment and telecommunications (Farms are diversifying).
Hunting is by and large enjoyed by middle class townies enjoying 'The country life' and landed, inbred gentry.
The stereotypes are, largely, true.
Hounds are cruel, that's the major beef with it. Any environmental or animal campaigner worth their FOTE membership knows that culls etc are necessary. If there are worries about livestock (and it's only really lambs and chickens) then a little sensible precaution is all that's really required.
It's a barbaric pursuit that does NOT enjoy the support of people in the country and frankly we're sick of it hijacking the important discussions that need to be had and the CA's insistence on it being part and parcel of their agenda.
I haven't a clue what people in your neck of the woods are like (inbred, in light of some of your previous comments?) but I know of no 'townies' in any hunt I've ever been associated with. I suspect that the proximity to the capital skews the demographic & you get the city boys down or somehting. In my experience, other parts of the country which aren't so London-centric have a much more local & inclusive demographic.
would much rather something was done about housing, transport, employment and telecommunications
Well, that's their elected representatives job, at regional level, largely. How that has any relationship to people pounding about on horseback at their own expense is beyond me. Except inasmuch as the current administration has noticed that the politics of envy is a great lightning rod and draws a lot of attention away from real issues such as you list above.
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Re: Well, one of the things they'd quite like...
Date: 2002-12-17 05:55 am (UTC)Re: Well, one of the things they'd quite like...
Date: 2002-12-17 05:58 am (UTC)A bit like the Cam with horses, really.
Re: Well, one of the things they'd quite like...
Date: 2002-12-17 05:31 pm (UTC)Genuine village people around here don't want hunting and would much rather something was done about housing, transport, employment and telecommunications (Farms are diversifying).
Hunting is by and large enjoyed by middle class townies enjoying 'The country life' and landed, inbred gentry.
The stereotypes are, largely, true.
Hounds are cruel, that's the major beef with it. Any environmental or animal campaigner worth their FOTE membership knows that culls etc are necessary.
If there are worries about livestock (and it's only really lambs and chickens) then a little sensible precaution is all that's really required.
It's a barbaric pursuit that does NOT enjoy the support of people in the country and frankly we're sick of it hijacking the important discussions that need to be had and the CA's insistence on it being part and parcel of their agenda.
Fuck 'em in their chinless heads.
Re: Well, one of the things they'd quite like...
Date: 2002-12-18 02:24 am (UTC)would much rather something was done about housing, transport, employment and telecommunications
Well, that's their elected representatives job, at regional level, largely. How that has any relationship to people pounding about on horseback at their own expense is beyond me. Except inasmuch as the current administration has noticed that the politics of envy is a great lightning rod and draws a lot of attention away from real issues such as you list above.