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Tom Charnock writes:
<< The clever bit is that the Parish had not noticed this was 2 1/2 months
after the close of the game season, and for sure neither had the Local
Council. But all of them now think of the local pheasant shoot as cowboys.
>>
Well, Tom, that says it all - you live in Dorset, don't you? Profoundly
rural, Hardy country and all that - and local councillors know b***-all about
game shooting seasons! This is a problem faced by many of us in the
countryside, where councils are often top-heavy with urban retirees whose
ignorance of country matters is matched only by their arrogant indifference
to them. It's easy to suggest that we should get stuck in and involve
ourselves ourselves actively in local politics, but the system favours the
retired and those of independent means - most of us are too busy earning a
living to become active, conscientious councillors. I had a brief exchange of
letters with a local (Lib Dem, retired urbanite) county councillor after I
learned that he had made anti-hunting statements, and I was appalled by his
snotty, arrogant, bossy, philistine, pig-headed refusal to interest himself
either in an objective analysis of hunting or in the issues of political
liberty raised by the anti-fieldsports posturing of his contemptible claque
of suburban busybodies.
Anthony Harrison
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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