It was a brave - if doomed attempt to stop this thread from being shoved in the BS section.

I thought for a moment that the gassing and shooting was the punishment being suggested for those who invaded the floor of the House? It will be interesting to see what sentences, (assuming of course that they will even be convicted) the judges will impose upon these fine young and upstanding members of our society?

If they were unemployed and dreadlocked road protestors - I suspect the full weight of the law would descend upon them and gassing and shooting would be thought by some – to be far too good for them.

Not too sure if many of us here have killed animals for food on a regular basis. I have and it was with horror that I witnessed that for some reason - possibly boredom - the games that some of my co-workers needed to invent and indulge in whilst killing. To me it was a question of doing what was needed in the best way possible, for others - taking lives - was something else.

The hunting game can still continue, dogs, horses, red coats and all - the fact that people argue that it will not be same without a killing at the end of it - concerns me. That everyone in the countryside is painted as holding this view also concens me.