For eighteen long years, characters like Peter Lilley, Margaret Thatcher, Keith Joseph were cheered ecstatically at Tory party conferences as they explained how they intended to stick it to the most hated by Toriesories sections of society: illegal immigrants, the unemployed, unmarried mothers, people on welfare.....

Now this government is sticking it to the sections of society that labour party voters most despise....

I really think you are wasting your time debating the wrongs and rights of this case. Some people object to the enjoyment of cruelty that is involved in being a member of a hunt, as opposed to being a ratcatcher. But i really don't think most people give a toss either way