Happy New Year and happy days ahead to all of you!!!!!
Mike Watson's (member of scottish parliament) wild mammals bill which will ban hunting with dogs in Scotland looks set to get the parliamentary time and support this year to become law (Despite stalling tacticts by tory rural MSP's). This is a step in the right direction.
The bill recently was passed to the next stage of the legislative process after a vote of 84 - 34 in favour of banning this barbarism.
Despite threats by the cuntryside alliance to shite skitter Princes Street, it all looks good.
Watson has championed the bill, describing some of the practices graphically in parliament.
"When caught, mostly the fox is torn by several hounds and essentially becomes a living rope in a tug of war"
This should end the anomoly, that if I was to set dogs on somebody's cat, I'd be rightly locked up, but in the name of pest control this "sport", practiced by a tiny minority, is tolerated - we protect pets but wild animals are fair game and can suffer any amount of pain in 2002.
If (before Scottish Devolution) previous scuppering tactics by the house of in-bred lords (and thank fuck the lord/lairds dont have the rubber stamp up here)had not been successful (after large minorities in favour of banning hunts in the commons by MPs) this would not have been necessary in Scotland.
The power must be continued to be taken from the lords before the rest of the wild mammals in these islands are better protected (not to mention all the other benefits of us reclaiming the power that the these unaccountables have in our our lives).
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