Pro-hunting group strikes at MP
YEP | 14.06.2002 15:51
PRO-HUNT activists have struck at the office of York MP Hugh Bayley, causing damage that is expected to cost hundreds of pounds to put right.
A dozen poster stickers have been plastered across the outside of the Labour MP's Holgate Road base.
The green A4-sized highly-adhesive stickers, which contain the phrase, "Hunting is Freedom", were discovered when office workers arrived today.
A logo on the posters indicates they were made by The Real Countryside Alliance, a pro-hunting splinter group.
Hugh Bayley, who has already started removing the stickers, said professional cleaners would have to be used to clear the mess completely.
He said: "This shows that the hunting fraternity are mindless thugs.
"It makes me more determined to ban their cruel and destructive pastime.
"If the cowards who did this are brave enough to say who they are we will send them the bill for cleaning it up."
A dozen poster stickers have been plastered across the outside of the Labour MP's Holgate Road base.
The green A4-sized highly-adhesive stickers, which contain the phrase, "Hunting is Freedom", were discovered when office workers arrived today.
A logo on the posters indicates they were made by The Real Countryside Alliance, a pro-hunting splinter group.
Hugh Bayley, who has already started removing the stickers, said professional cleaners would have to be used to clear the mess completely.
He said: "This shows that the hunting fraternity are mindless thugs.
"It makes me more determined to ban their cruel and destructive pastime.
"If the cowards who did this are brave enough to say who they are we will send them the bill for cleaning it up."
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hunting cruel and barbaric?
14.06.2002 23:52
How many foxes actually get killed every year? I shouldn't think it's that many.
That doesn't make it ok but it does make it kind of meaningless when you compare it to the number of animals who die in pain when they're slaughtered for us to eat.
To be consistent wouldn't we have to become vegitarians as well?
Some would argue that the fact that cows and sheep and pigs and chickens are being killed FOR FOOD makes it less bad. You try explaining that to the cows, sheep, pigs and chickens.
Ocalan III
silly
15.06.2002 18:07
I agree about hunting BTW - the sort of person who does is like someone who pisses in phone-boxes as a hobby, but in the grand overall scheme of things, how does it compare to 800 million factory-farmed animals per year in the UK?
The animal rights bods in general have a weird set of priorities if only in terms of likely success: focus on medical vivisection and do fck all about exotic pets - who thought that up?
fati
Well...
17.06.2002 11:52
johnny_boy