‘Authoritarian Control Freaks’: UK’s Left-Wing Govt Goes to War With the Countryside With Hunting, Shotgun Crackdowns

[Hol]

The British government is intensifying its attacks on rural life, following its draconian inheritance tax raid policy, rolling out fresh plans to restrict shotgun ownership further and to eliminate the traditional vestiges of rural sport by even banning pretend fox hunting.

Britain’s left-wing Labour government has announced what it calls an animal welfare strategy, in which it says it will ban trail or drag hunting — a simulated fox hunt in which hounds pursue an artificial trail instead of real prey — because critics claim the trail is used as a pretext to hunt secretly. Supporters of the trail hunting community call the announcement an expression of authoritarianism and a declaration of “war on the countryside”.

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The Countryside Alliance, a British mass-membership non-profit supporting rural interests, said in response to the announcement, reports Sky News: “Why does the government want a war with the countryside? Trail hunting supports hundreds of jobs and is central to many rural communities. After its attack on family farms, the government should be focusing on addressing issues that actually help rural communities thrive, rather than pursuing divisive policies that hinder them.”

Meanwhile, the government is pushing ahead with its inheritance raid tax on family farms, which critics say will inevitably destroy the historic food-producing institutions as the present generation of farmers die out, as well as with a crackdown on shotgun ownership.

'Authoritarian Control Freaks': UK Govt Declares War on the Countryside

Westminster intensifying attacks on rural life, with plans to further restrict shotguns and to eliminate the vestiges of rural sport.

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[mattfivefour]

Of course, destruction of family farms and the independent rural life style is part of the globalist, Communist agenda. So no surprise there.

I'm just shocked at how far the UK has fallen during my lifetime. Thank God my mother removed me from there in the early 1950s, just before the destruction began.

 

[Hol]

Have you heard of an excellent journalist in the UK named Melanie Phillips? She was on the Josh Hammer show a few days ago discussing her new book, The Builders Stone. She lays out the loss of Judea-Christian values, dating back to Margaret Thatcher. The first half of the show I was disagreeing with her, but like a good journalist she won me over.

Yes, it’s a sad story. I’m very glad your mom moved you across the pond too!