'Blue foxes' spark Tory spat over hunt ban

[Jazzy]

A fox-hunting row has broken out between Conservative backbenchers over the support of several new female MPs for maintaining Labour's hunt ban.



David Cameron has promised a free Commons vote on repealing the ban, but set no date for the vote.



Many traditional Conservatives oppose the ban, but a group of party MPs first elected last year is fighting hard to keep it.



The group, tagged “the blue foxes” includes several women elected as part of Mr Cameron's push to change his party's image.



They are trying to prevent a Commons vote on the ban by signalling they would vote to maintain the prohibition.



Combined with the votes of most Labour and Lib Dem MPs, they might be enough to ensure the ban was maintained.



A leading member of the set, Caroline Dinenage the MP for Gosport in Hampshire, told a newspaper that fox hunting was unacceptable in a modern country.



She said: “‘I don’t hold with the idea that just because it’s traditional we have to continue to do it. If that was the case, we’d still have bear-baiting and be sending small children up chimneys.”



Her remarks were attacked by a fellow Conservative.



Simon Hart, the pro-hunting Tory MP for Carmarthen and former chief executive of the Countryside Alliance said the ban should be lifted.



Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8700702/Blue-foxes-spark-Tory-spat-over-hunt-ban.html



Question: Do you think the ban should be lifted or maintained?

 

[Chatsie]

I think all blood 'sports' are cruel. There's nothing 'sporting'

about inflicting such treatment on an animal.

 

[Jazzy]

A leading member of the set, Caroline Dinenage the MP for Gosport in Hampshire, told a newspaper that fox hunting was unacceptable in a modern country.

I totally agree with Caroline Dinenage. To kill innocent animals for the entertainment of humans makes me very angry. They are doing no harm and no harm should be allowed upon them.

 

[Evil Eye]

Leave the poor things along till there's too many of 'em.

She said: “‘I don’t hold with the idea that just because it’s traditional we have to continue to do it. If that was the case, we’d still have bear-baiting and be sending small children up chimneys.”