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Other Animal welfare issues & petitons => Other Animal Petitions & Welfare & News => Topic started by: MrsR on April 24, 2009, 14:17:36 PM

Title: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: MrsR on April 24, 2009, 14:17:36 PM: Please everyone email their MP to ensure that fox hunting remains illegal!

Click on the link http://www.league.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=2127.

It only takes a few seconds as there is a template email provided. Our foxy friends need us.
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: hOrZa on April 24, 2009, 14:34:01 PM: Done
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: bunglycat on April 24, 2009, 14:43:03 PM: Done.
My email bounced back to me as couldn''t deliver !?
Just tried again and it came straight back to me !
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: hOrZa on April 24, 2009, 18:43:24 PM: I've already had a reply from my MP supporting EDM 481 :)
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: MrsR on April 24, 2009, 18:56:48 PM: Brilliant :)
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Janeyk on April 25, 2009, 08:24:21 AM: Signed
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Tan on April 25, 2009, 22:57:57 PM: Grrr i just had a reply from the New Forest Conservative MP Desmond Swayne

Here is the email i send him and i added a little at the bottom to the standard and his :censored: reply.

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Subject: Support the hunting act
To: desmondswayne@hotmail.com
From: Tan@chaptan.co.uk
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:29:46 +0000
League Against Cruel Sports

Friday 24 April 2009
Dear Mr Desmond Swayne ,
RE. HUNTING

The Hunting Act 2004 is an important and popular piece of legislation. In a recent IPSOS Mori poll, 75 per cent of British people did not want to see a return to hunting and 71 per cent of the rural community backed the ban on fox-hunting.

It is essential that the police take wildlife crime seriously and enforce the rule of law consistently.

I would be grateful if you could join your colleagues in supporting the Act and by adding your signature to EDM 481.

Please Please help to ensure the ban stays in force to stop such awful cruelty in the name of Human \"enjoyment\". Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Tanya

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From: desmond swayne [mailto:desmondswayne@hotmail.com]
Sent: 25 April 2009 21:06
To: tan@chaptan.co.uk; maria niall
Subject: RE: Support the hunting act

Sorry. I disagree. DS

Desmond Swayne TD MP

HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SW1A 0AA

desmondswaynemp.com

:censored: :censored: :censored: I have replied and asked him why!!!

Anyone else in the tre Forest / Hampshire district that can email him? - http://www.league.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=2127.

If those conservatives get in, they will def bring back the torchure to the poor foxes purely for their enjoyment. :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: MrsR on April 25, 2009, 23:01:23 PM: "Sorry I disagree" -- what sort of response is that >:(
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Tan on April 25, 2009, 23:31:58 PM: Yeah i know!! :censored: >:(

I think it means he actually used to do it and enjoyed it??? :mad2:

I have asked him to explain.

Sadly down here in the New Forest area i bet it was very popular with the toffs with all this land and many foxes. I think the area is heavy with conservative supporters.

Please just don't let them win an election. :'( I know labour (and mainly all of the parties) arn't great but at least Labour have done some things for our animals and wildlife.
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: hOrZa on April 26, 2009, 09:31:20 AM: I'm with you on the don't let the Conservatives win but Labour are turning the UK into a Police State :(

P.S. Sorry for hijacking the thread with my pet grieves
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Christine (Blip) on April 26, 2009, 10:10:17 AM: I'm still waiting to hear from Greg Hands in response to my email condemning ritual slaughter.

I was a sab in my dim and distant youth :)
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: bunglycat on April 26, 2009, 13:44:47 PM: I have emailed Douglas Hogg 3 times and every one has come back to me !
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: koscha (Ruth M) on April 26, 2009, 15:34:55 PM: Mike Hancock (my local MP) has already signed this EDM...he's like that (well he is Lib Dem :) )

I really wish that the Lib Dems were a stronger party, Labour have turned this country into a nanny/police state and the Conservatives are only interested in upholding thier ideas of middle and upper class values. >:(

I'm really starting to smell whiffs of revolution in the air from numerous sources......the current goverment are that disliked..... :innocent:

Anyway, i'm appaled at your MP Tan, perhaps it might be worthwhile someone reminidng of this fact when he loses his seat in the next election!

I'll take my militant butt elsewhere now :rofl:
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Christine (Blip) on April 26, 2009, 15:40:13 PM: Quote from: koscha (Ruth M) on April 26, 2009, 15:34:55 PM
Anyway, i'm appaled at your MP Tan, perhaps it might be worthwhile someone reminidng of this fact when he loses his seat in the next election!

Unlikely.
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: koscha (Ruth M) on April 27, 2009, 01:57:48 AM: We can but dream :naughty:
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Debsymiller (Rufus' mum) on April 27, 2009, 08:16:57 AM: I have sent it to my MP but know he will not sign as when I got a negative response to my e mail abut the microchipping, I looked him up and low and behold.... he supports fox hunting >:(
Title: Re: Keep foxhunting banned
Post by: Janeyk on May 02, 2009, 11:46:25 AM: Just received a letter of reply in the post from my local MP Eric Illsley which reads:-

"Thank you for your email of 25th April 2009 regarding EDM 481: Public Support for the Hunting Act.

I agree that the motion raises an important issue and I have already added my signature. It was not without considerable effort that the legislation was passed and I am dsappointed that the law has not been more effectively and consistently enforced.

Thank you for taking the time to write to me on this important subject.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Illsley MP"

He does seem to be an animal lover - pity he hasn't more power and more aren't like him :(