Your bluff was called (From Warrington Guardian)

Your bluff was called

SO your letter of October 7 was 'inadvertently taken out of context' was it Mr Hill? And you found it necessary to write again (Warrington Guardian, November 4).

You mean your bluff was called when a correspondent replied saying it was worth paying £200 per fox to stop the slaughter. This 'English Way of Life' (which it isn't actually), was in the good old traditions of bear baiting, keel-hauling, floggings etc, and he for one was quite happy to see the police involved should this Bill become law.

So having completely lost your point, you chose to ignore the cruelty argument altogether and shifted your ground, ie the 'employment problem', and the 'friction' - whatever you meant by that - that would ensue between town and country-folk.

No-one likes families being out of work - as thousands of ex- miners, shipyard workers, or steelworkers will testify, there was plenty of stress for their children too.

Support hunting with dogs if you want. Speak out in favour of the sad people who feel they are not complete human beings unless they have bullied, terrified, tortured and finally watched an innocent dumb creature torn limb from limb by hounds trained for the job.

But please, Mr Hill, don't try to give this barbaric pastime a cloak of pseudo-respectability by arguing that we need to terrorise and violently kill wild animals just to keep someone in a job!

VIV ROBERTS

Sankey Bridges