A lot of people seem a bit confused because they dont like yobbish aristos with red coats. Fine, shoot them, or remove their coats, or their land, or whatever you can persuade parilament to endorse. The huntsmen I have known over the years are/were all in north Lancashire and Cumbria. They were not aristos, landowners, redcoat wearers or horse riders. (The fells are a bit steep for that). Sure they were cruel,but that is hardly the issue. This legislation replaces hunting with dogs with eh alternatives of cyanide or guns, just as cruel. These people were not bad...or if they were, only in the sense that the rest of the population is good and bad in parts. I really dont want to see my friends demonised by a group of people who have become confused by posh hooray henries in redcoats in Leicestershire. They are of no interest to me at all.
   And no, I've never hunted, and never will.I dont really like hunting. But I really seriously dont like hypocrisy.