What's your stance on the Badger cull? As a farmer, my Tory vote was mainly based on their continuation of the badger cull to try and rectify the cattle TB situation.
"In 2010, a scientific report was published in which bTB incidence in cattle was monitored in and around RBCT areas after culling ended. The report showed that the benefits inside culled areas decreased over time and were no longer detectable three years after culling ceased. In areas adjoining those which culled, a trend indicated beneficial effects immediately after the end of culling were insignificant, and had disappeared 18 months after the cull ceased.
The report also stated that the financial costs of culling an idealized 150 km2 area would exceed the savings achieved through reduced bTB by factors of 2 to 3.5. The report concluded "These results, combined with evaluation of alternative culling methods, suggest that badger culling is unlikely to contribute effectively to the control of cattle TB in Britain."
I do find the typical Conservative voters allergy to facts & data amusing.
Why? Fox hunting allows dogs to kill foxes naturally, just as they would if they were together in the wild. Why is it bad for dogs to kill foxes in the same way that foxes kill other animals?
By that logic is dog fighting fine?, it allows dogs to kill dogs naturally right?. How about bear baiting? - it allows dogs to kill dogs naturally. If you are going to present a logical consistency argument then you need to make sure your point is to begin with.
You are missing the part that dogs don't naturally run around the countryside killing foxes.
I'm actually glad that the Conservatives will push through this kind of legislation, without the Liberal Democrats to take the edge off the policies they will alienate the swing vote & liberal Conservatives for the next election. Keep going I say, sleep walk into losing the next election to appease a minority of voters the public are majoritively against.