Of course this is one of the myriad debates that, for us English, is inevitably class based. I remember a thread about hunting a couple of years ago and the poor old Yanks were breathless at how we neatly divided along class lines on this one. Apparently hunting is a blue collar thing over there.

The hunting fraternity assured me that THEIR local hunt was packed out with miners, factory workers, unemployed, single parents, etc. Must be like a cross between the TUC and the green room on Coronation street, where RADA types concentrate on the getting the right timbre into enunciating 'ey oop!, 'ecky thump!, and willie 'eckerslke!

I can't really understand why we haven't banned hunting completely. As soon as the tories get in, despite all this crap about Ian Duncan Smith loving us us all, and caring terribly about us, and all his best friends manning call centres (the mind really works overtime on that one? - maybe the I 'm wearing little white panties one!) - as soon as they're in they're going to start shafting us.

So I think we should kick them up the arse with this one, and bloody hard! A pre-emptive strike - they've obviously got weapons of mass destruction in there somewhere.