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I hope it is the good sign I think it is. Sides that are losing frequently becime more aggressive, noisy and extreme, as they dedparatrly try to hang on and bolster support. We have to keep the pressure on. These people are so blinkered they don't see the irony of their accusations applying to them and their cause. That could ultimately help ours and be a way of exposing them even more.

I'll never stop fighting for an end to the cruelty, destruction and blind stupidity of these people- as long as I have the ability to oppose them, I will do so and support you in doing so much more than I'm capable of.

I also voted against the Restore Trust candidates resolutions and chose other candidates for The National Trust. I joined to oppose hunting on thier land and I remain a member to keep opposing the attempts to turn back the clock.

Thank you to all of you who fight to end the cruelty and protect wildlife and habitat.

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I've never (in my many, many years) looked forward to a General Election until now; can't come soon enough!! It was so very hard to protest in my day against wildlife cruelty especially living in a small countryside village. With the help of social media (which I only do a little of) it has been phenomenal and makes me so very happy to read of the support that now exists. I do not tweet, face-book etc but will be forwarding all you say to every e-mail contact, I so want you to have loads of followers and money.

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Sounds to me this fat waste of spaces arse is twitching and rightly so, not only is he a murdering scumbag hes also a mp whos whole basis is to lie and cheat and belittle the law hes meant to uphold. What a total crackpot suggesting sabs are the thugs🤔 the only thugs are those knobs that churn our countryside up maiming and killing our beautiful wildlife for their sick perverted blood lust it will be a godsend this pathetic tramp loses his seat and all the goodies that go along with it, lets then see if hes still welcome at the annual gobshites ball when hes got no backup and hes met with hip hip hooray i say tally ho your not welcome here anymore go away peasent and as for sabs these people have got every right to follow you scumbags to let the people who voted you in know what your seedy weekends consist of SABS ARE SAVIOURS👍👍👍👍

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Well I understand that it's very annoying to hear such absolute garbage come from such an uninformed person but let's put it into context most of his fellow of MPs are dinosaurs living in the past and in a lot of cases living for the Elite in society and ignoring the vast majority and will of the people hopefully him and his friends will soon be pushed out of power so they can scuttle back to what ever corner they came from

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Totally agree degrees in verbal diaharra💩💩💩💩

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Massive loss of Biodiversity in the last 40 years?… people like this are the reason!

Ecocide = Genocide = Suicide 🌍🔥🥵

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Moronic Wallace is a member of the century-old Uniparty, so nothing that resembles respect for the views of the majority can be expected of him or the rest of the parliamentary rabble. We live in a fake democracy in which greedy, greasy career politicians ignore what the majority electorate want as soon as they're first past the post. So a change in government means little or nothing for animal welfare. Nothing will change until every vote counts in elections.

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Very well written and very appropriate. I think the end is nigh, hopefully very, very soon!

How anyone can approve of an animal being pulled apart by dogs must seriously need help!

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"............ continuing the use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides (who wouldn’t want to wipe out pollinators when there’s a short-term profit to be made?)......."

I suspect there might be a long-term profit to be made and there's a deliberate 'plot' to wipe out pollinators. It would perfectly play into the 'agri-corps' hands to research and produce genetically modified seeds that won't need any pollinating.

It would give the multinationals complete domination over food production, tying the farmers into having to buy their GM seeds to grow.

This only a theory, but after lots of years reading the news about multinational profiteering, what's happened in the past and still happening now, it's a theory that I can't get out of my head.

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I think you may be right, Bo, I guess what I was thinking when I wrote that was without pollinators entire ecosystems are truly scr***d and we are losing them so fast already that overturning any bans on neonics will finish them off in no time at all. Hence, short-term....very sad

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I will certainly enjoy seeing the demise of Ben Wallace's voice. A person who publicly discloses his apathy to both human or animal life and rights obviously has no soul. The last I knew of a being with no soul was known as a D•••n, same can be said for the rest of his ilk.

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I wasn’t too sure who I would be voting for in the next election, but now that I see that the conservative government don’t care a fig about animals, our wildlife, all they care about are themselves. I know now it won’t be the conservatives in my good books. I’ve never trusted anyone who doesn’t care about animals, who think nothing of animals being hunted down and ripped apart, to me, these people aren’t normal. The sooner this government is out, the better.

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This politician should be hunted. See how he likes it. Certainly will not be voting for the cons. This Disgraceful disgusting hunting has no place in the 21st century for God's sake. Time to move forward. All life is precious. 🙏

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I have sat on the fence for many years about fox hunting, debating that it is part of the rural country side community, but more and more I am seeing that hunters are barbaric and arrogant and don't actually care about the country side. They don't respect private property, they damage land and are often out of control. It's a tradition that needs to go. Like so many 'traditions', hunting belongs in the past.

The government needs to stop this ritualized killing.

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Surely a class war is when so called privileged people can kill in cruel ways, and cause damage wherever they want, when anyone else would be arrested.

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Another great piece Charlie but I would caution you against becoming over-focused on the ‘end product’ of this activity. It’s not what it’s ultimately all about. Of course the welfare of all the wildlife involved as well as other domesticated animals and their owners is important to those of us who care about these things but it’s not what’s driving our ‘enemies’ in this conflict.

For them the fox is just a means to an end. That end is a social ritual that is replicated throughout the UK (and beyond) and is used to both ‘project force’ on behalf of the ‘masters’ and bind the followers into a serving hierarchy. It is a way of confirming the power of the Establishment across the UK and reminding us ‘peasants’ of who is in charge. If you want evidence of that idea you need look no further than the behaviour of the police who are very reluctant to intervene to enforce the law on fox hunting. Their purpose is to support the Establishment in their ‘socially-binding’ rituals. Progress is not a valued concept here.

So rather than focus exclusively on the fox I would suggest you have a closer look at those doing the hunting. They are not only powerful and influential individuals but part of a national network of authority that determines who things are done locally. And nationally.

And if foxy benefits from this slight change of focus then so much the better!

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Sadly, the old quip from the '70s is still true:-

"If voting could change the system, it would be made illegal"

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