Fox Hunting...

[minionofmidas]

I don't think anybody outside the British Isles actually cares...

[minionofmidas]

Lol, Lewis!

Well, i say know. Why should anyone be banned from hunting in their own land?

You are banned from doing that in Germany, and apparently you always have been. Hunting rights over a territory are separate from ordinary ownership rights here (like mining rights, fishing rights etc)

[minionofmidas]

So all this class stereotyping is the reason behind all the fuss. Right?

[minionofmidas]

So all this class stereotyping is the reason behind all the fuss. Right?

Yep.
This is revenge for the Enclosures, the treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs... etc etc

As if you were alive for the enclosures.

[minionofmidas]

I don't think anybody outside the British Isles actually cares...

You are right about that!

I can understand why people outside Britain are a little bemused. Why would anyone be bothered about hunting? The fact is, it's not about hunting. It's a class, urban Vs rural thing. The industrial, urban regions suffered terribly in the 1980's and now they want revenge.

It#s a rather pitiful way of taking revenge...