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Alliance sets up Hunting Act repeal committee
Yesterday the leaders of the hunting world, including professional hunt staff, supportive politicians and Alliance staff gathered in London for the inaugural meeting of the 'Repeal Committee', which will guide the campaign for the repeal of the Hunting Act in the run up to the next election.
The committee is chaired by Edward Garnier QC MP supported by Lord Astor as vice-Chairman and, unlike both the Alliance itself and the associations that run hunting, it has only one purpose: to see the Hunting Act removed from the Statute Book.
The new committee will oversee the work of lobbying MPs, peers and candidates; of briefing and engaging the media; and of ensuring confidence in post ban hunting. The members are well placed to guide, advise and engage all parts of the hunting community in the efforts that must be made to ensure the abolition of the Act.
The time is right to re-engage every person who hunts, and everyone in the country who supports their right to do so, in the campaign to scrap the Hunting Act. Scrapping the Act is not simply of benefit to the hunting community. The futures of other field sports, particularly shooting, will be secured indefinitely by repeal. In addition, the interests of rural and urban people who simply believe in a tolerant society will also be greatly enhanced. This committee will help steer hunting past the potential pitfalls of the next two years and to ensure that every last effort is made to prepare the ground for the early delivery of repeal.
Four years ago, as the Hunting Act became law, the idea that there might now be a realistic possibility of scrapping the ban would have seemed optimistic. In that time, however, it has been exposed as one of the most pointless, illiberal and incompetent laws ever to reach the Statute Book. The time is now right to put this failed law out of its misery and the members of this committee are ideally suited to that role.
When we were fighting the introduction of the Hunting Act the entire hunting world, and the wider rural community, was engaged and active in the campaign. The last few years have been focussed on the ground to ensure that the infrastructure of hunting is maintained. Now is the time to start a renewed political and public campaign for repeal with the realistic possibility that the next Government will be willing and able to deliver.
We have just one aim, repeal, and will have just one chance to achieve it. This new committee will ensure that no stone is left unturned and no avenue is left unexplored as we seek that goal.
Simon Hart
Chief Executive
The committee is chaired by Edward Garnier QC MP supported by Lord Astor as vice-Chairman and, unlike both the Alliance itself and the associations that run hunting, it has only one purpose: to see the Hunting Act removed from the Statute Book.
The new committee will oversee the work of lobbying MPs, peers and candidates; of briefing and engaging the media; and of ensuring confidence in post ban hunting. The members are well placed to guide, advise and engage all parts of the hunting community in the efforts that must be made to ensure the abolition of the Act.
The time is right to re-engage every person who hunts, and everyone in the country who supports their right to do so, in the campaign to scrap the Hunting Act. Scrapping the Act is not simply of benefit to the hunting community. The futures of other field sports, particularly shooting, will be secured indefinitely by repeal. In addition, the interests of rural and urban people who simply believe in a tolerant society will also be greatly enhanced. This committee will help steer hunting past the potential pitfalls of the next two years and to ensure that every last effort is made to prepare the ground for the early delivery of repeal.
Four years ago, as the Hunting Act became law, the idea that there might now be a realistic possibility of scrapping the ban would have seemed optimistic. In that time, however, it has been exposed as one of the most pointless, illiberal and incompetent laws ever to reach the Statute Book. The time is now right to put this failed law out of its misery and the members of this committee are ideally suited to that role.
When we were fighting the introduction of the Hunting Act the entire hunting world, and the wider rural community, was engaged and active in the campaign. The last few years have been focussed on the ground to ensure that the infrastructure of hunting is maintained. Now is the time to start a renewed political and public campaign for repeal with the realistic possibility that the next Government will be willing and able to deliver.
We have just one aim, repeal, and will have just one chance to achieve it. This new committee will ensure that no stone is left unturned and no avenue is left unexplored as we seek that goal.
Simon Hart
Chief Executive
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Permalink Reply by H.P.Sauce on -
Scrapping the Act is not simply of benefit to the hunting community. The futures of other field sports, particularly shooting, will be secured indefinitely by repeal.
Interesting. I wish this venture well, despite its being somewhat tardy. I think I'll ask the CA directly, but on what basis do they believe the future of shooting will be secured, and as a quid pro quo will they actively support the repeal of the bans on semi-automatic rifles (1988 Firearms Act) and handguns (1997 Firearms Act) - ?
Yours, not holding his breath - HPS
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Permalink Reply by Vexed Foxy on
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With my current experience of the CA they have not got a pray of reversing it.
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Permalink Reply by H.P.Sauce on
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As promised, I went to the CA website and emailed exactly the same questions - politely - to them. Not a peep! I suspect they come under the heading of "awkward questions from troublemakers" and certainly raise issues they'd rather not try to deal with, so such questions get ignored. Well, I did say I wasn't holding my breath. Doesn't surprise me.
HPS
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Permalink Reply by tim stubbs on -
from the list of "members" of this comittee there seems to be a lack of a fell pack member . is this because we dont count or have we been forgotten again ???
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Permalink Reply by Vexed Foxy on
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No fell pack members is not good enough, however don't hold your breath, there will be no repeal of the hunting act if people don't get of their lazy backsides and fight, where the fcvk is everyone on this site?
NO passion, NO fight, NO will, NO desire, NO heart that beats to the cry of hounds, NO hunting No NO NO hunting by November.
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Permalink Reply by tim stubbs on
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i dont known why the CA bother sometimes , its a personal thing that i'll not go into but we dont matter accept when the want our support
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Permalink Reply by Vexed Foxy on
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I read the article by Simon Hart in the Field mag, he does not come across well at all smug git, I am a supporter.
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Permalink Reply by Vexed Foxy on
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What I meant to say was I am NOT a supporter of Hart but I am of the CA.
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Permalink Reply by Vexed Foxy on
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Oh well no one cares anyway.
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