What will become of the foxes in all this? If hunting is banned, they will still be killed and the methods used may well be no more humane than hunting.
Worse than that, they will learn that under New Labour nothing comes without strings. Expect to see the introduction of compulsory lectures for foxes on the rights of chickens – or “members of the egg-laying community”, as they will probably be called. Look too for a network of Cubs Clubs run by Margaret Hodge and a Brush Your Brush campaign headed by John Reid.
All this may accelerate the trend that has seen foxes abandon the countryside to become urban scavengers and, as many householders know, significant pests. It will be a sad day when the only foxes you see are sitting round shopping malls wearing Burberry baseball caps and giving their children Sunny D.
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Urban foxes
I find myself to have been almost prophetic in a House Points column I wrote back in November 2004:
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