If foxhunting is not officially brought back this time, then it never will be. That would not happen in the next Parliament, 15 to 20 years after the ban.
Rather, if the will of the House of Commons this time is to keep the ban, then it really might be time for the Police and the CPS to consider making some sort of effort to enforce it.
Or not enforce all sorts of other things that happened to be the law enacted by Parliament, and explain why not.
It is gloriously unenforced, as it should be. It was all about irrational Leftwing hatred of toffs in red coats and had nothing to do with reason.
ReplyDeleteThe sort of demagogy that used to cause Socrates to walk out of speeches.
Time for repeal.
It is not up to the Police which laws to enforce. Or is it? They won't be enforcing any new anti-strike laws (nowhere near as popular as the hunting ban, and certainly not going to pass the Commons by anything like so large a majority), then. Will they?
DeleteThere were Commons majorities for a ban in the Major years but the Bills were talked out or otherwise killed off procedurally. To have an overall majority the Tories have to be an urban and suburban party, were then, are again now. Don't bet on a win for the hunters next week. Meaning both a House with a Labour overall majority will have enacted the ban and a House with a Tory overall majority will have explicitly kept it in place.
ReplyDeleteWell put.
DeleteTo which one would only add that most people in the countryside always supported the ban. The claim that whole communities got together to hunt, like the claim that hunting employed large numbers of people, was always false.