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Attack on the Working Class

Henry | 09.06.2004 11:34

Working Class man sees historic way of life under threat - please support

WILLIAM GOFFE is facing a the dole
“I don’t know what I would do,” he said. “This is all I’ve ever done or wanted to do since I left school at 16

His day starts at 5.30am when he cleans the premises and exercises the 112 hounds. He said: “Everyone is worried about a ban. It seems to have been going on for so long and there is so much uncertainty. We hope it won’t happen but who knows? I would have to get another job but I don’t know what.” He also said he would need some compensation to help him to retrain and to help find somewhere to live. Although he takes home just £600 a month after tax, his accommodation is covered and his total pay package is worth about £16,000 a year.“I’m taking each day as it comes,” he said. “But it’s very hard.”


 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1137958,00.html


Please contact your local MP to protest this attack on a working class man having his job removed by a vindictive government

Henry

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Be Honest & I Might Support You

09.06.2004 11:42

If pro-fox hunters stopped hiding behind other people, and just admitted they liked killing foxes then I might even support them for their honesty, but the way in which they lie, obscure and hijack other issues they really care nothing of, is quite sickening.

bumblebee


Boo fucking hoo.

09.06.2004 12:22

Where were you bastards when they chucked tens of thousands of miners out of work? Murdoch's Times was happy to print lies to help Thatcher attack the working class then, so don't come dribbling to us for "working class" sympathy now, you vicious little toff.

John


If fox hunting were really about pest control

09.06.2004 13:10

...then the fox hunters wouldn't build artificial earths stocked with food, to ensure a steady supply of their victims:
 http://www.acigawis.freeserve.co.uk/artificial_earths.htm

It's not pest control, it's a sickfuck's idea of fun. I don't care whether working class people also enjoy it. It's coming to an end. You've lost. Get over it.

David


Artificial earths

09.06.2004 14:15

Dr. S/Sgt. Henry/Toad/Trudy, do you deny that artificial earths are built by fox hunters then? I doubt it.

 http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/pdfs/hunting/hh_3b_huskisson.pdf

"I have also seen the measures taken by hunt supporters to ensure a good supply of quarry.
I have seen artificial earths, built by hunt supporters for foxes to breed in, in every part of England and also in Wales. I have seen 31 artificial earths in the small area hunted by the [ ] foxhounds alone. I have seen the largest artificial earth that I know of in the Lake District in the very heart of sheep rearing. I have seen logpiles built by hunt supporters to provide shelter for foxes above ground. I have seen food put out by hunt supporters to feed foxes. I have seen dead chickens, lambs, adult sheep, calves and even boxes of bacon rinds dumped in woods, usually near artificial earths, as food for foxes. I have also seen two live cubs held captive in appalling conditions in an artificial earth in a wood owned by a Yorkshire based hunt. I have also seen hares netted and moved by hare coursing enthusiasts.
I have seen the pastime of hunting our wildlife with packs of dogs as it really is. Not as it is claimed to be by its supporters. Not as it is believed to be by apologists for it who have never seen it.
It is my experience that this amusement is both inherently cruel and entirely unnecessary."

David


FAO Henry

09.06.2004 14:43

Hello Henry, the way in which you paraphrased me only looks like an admittance of your own dishonesty, especially considering that I'm not necessarily even opposed to fox-hunting. I am opposed to the elitist structure of our society which creates a working class in the first place, and yes, it would be better if people like myself attacked elitism, instead of addressing the issue of class and elitism, through the often ridiculous, over-emotive, and monty python style defence of cuddly foxes (vermin).

bumblebee


A 1 stone 2 bird answer!

09.06.2004 14:49

Why not just shoot the unemployed for sport? We'd have to stand farther back as they'd be too easy to hit, and some robust form of launching craft would need to be designed. Perhaps aircraft and parachutes...

Imagine the effect on unemployment figures! (Not to mention inner-city crime rates...)

The Viscount Sir Edward Cecil Runcible Mountfitchet Armaduke Hitherington-Smythe
mail e-mail: Cunt off


Re: A 1 stone 2 bird answer!

09.06.2004 15:30

'Do what you like to the working classes, just don't hurt the poor foxes' is the anti-human & & anti-working class logic of much of the 'animal rights' lobby, so in that respect at least I agree with Henry, although, as said, Henry probably doesn't give a genuine toss about the working class either.

bumbleebee


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