I'm not against cruel and barbaric activities per se.
I would be a hypocrite to say if the lives of family, friends, or anyone really were threatened I'd call for Amnesty International rather than Jack Bauer. Watching Saints play at home has only been good for the soul. Probably. And sometimes the natural world, red in tooth and claw, seems close to the mark - leopard seals tossing penguins, cats playing with mice and so on.
But it takes the Conservatives to suggest a return to the both pointless and barbaric activity of hunting to exhaustion and butchery wild animals. For blood lust pleasure alone.
The Labour manifesto of 92 had some sanctimonious stuff in it about the nature of a country's people being judged by the way they treat their animals. It was poorly expressed but at its heart, correct.
The media is begining slowly but surely to take an interest in what the Tories stand for. In the last few days, three things of note. Confirmatipn of a tax-give-away to the richest 3,000 people in the country. A clampdown on pay for nurses, doctors and police. And barbarism returniing to the country.
The Conservatives remain the nasty party. It's time to shoot their fox once and for all.
