When Simon Hart and his fellow conspirators from the so-called Countryside Alliance find themselves incarcerated for deliberately breaking the law banning hunting with dogs, they could do worse than spend their time in the prison library studying books on democracy.
They will find that the House of Lords is an unelected body, representing nobody, and it is making a mockery of British democracy by repeatedly blocking a law favoured by a large majority of MPs and most voters.
Finally, how can an organisation calling itself the Countryside Alliance expect to be taken seriously when it is based in London? Could it be that its members are too busy blasting away at anything that moves to find the time for administration, so they have to leave it to the hated townies?
I suggest Mr Hart drives his tractor round to his near neighbour, Tony Banks MP, for a frank discussion on the meaning of democracy.
A Day
Highworth
Swindon
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