Unlike other Boxing Days, tomorrow will be virtually free of the gratuitous 'cruelty for fun' games by sadists with more money than sensitivity.
The snow will not be stained by the blood of animals torn to shreds in boozy social events that use living sentient creatures as quarries for their amusement. The lack of fox killing will not mean that the countryside will be over-run with foxes in the Spring. Many hunts breed their own foxes because there are shortages in many areas.
The unspeakable gibbering half-wits of the Countryside Alliance campaigned against Labour MPs in the General Election. They believed the Tory promise to repeal the Hunting Act. They were fooled.
Finding good new Tory MPs have been a regular unexpected pleasure for me since May.
There are 22 more tonight. Yesterday five new Tory MPs, including Caroline Dinenage, Mike Weatherley and Tracey Crouch, backed a statement that: "This Government has far more important things to do than spending time on bringing back cruelty to animals for sport."
A minority of. MPs – 253 out of 650 – are committed to repealing the Act, and 22 Conservative MPs are among more than 300 who would vote against repeal.
Hope will triumph over pessimism. Civilised new reason will face down traditional barbarism. Entrenched power will be undermined with fresh idealism.
Happy New Year Hunters. Stick to the drunken pageantry and the funny clothes.
Killing for fun has no future.
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