70 mounted and some
150 on foot gathered in good but defiant spirit to prove
that the Hunting Act has failed in its intent. The intent
being, of course, that Labour's back-benchers wished to
see our community destroyed.
While it was good, as
ever, to see so many old friends it was also good to see
quite a number of new faces.
There was, for some, a
poignant memory of that day 6 months ago when we rode on
the same lane after the last day of proper hunting before
the Act came into force. That was soon washed away by the
determination that we share to continue and see this
pernicious and spiteful little Act consigned to the
bin.
The level of support
showed that the backbenchers' prejudiced intentions had
failed. They created the Hunting Act to destroy our
community but here we are stronger than ever, our culture
intact and with even greater determination to see this
pernicious Act erased from the statute book
The existence of a law
that was created by riding roughshod over half of
Parliament so that a group of back-bench MPs could
persecute a minority is a matter of shame to our country
which once prided itself on tolerance and
freedom.
Meets welcomed people who
do not normally follow the hunt but who wished to stand
up and be counted alongside that persecuted minority
because they fear where government intereference will go
next.
