When will it be us?

[Guest]

Now that The Commons has shown its true colours again with its vote against a pursuit because it does not like the people doing it I wonder when they will turn their attention to us.
I'm not suggesting they will want to ban us, but it wouldn't be the first time that they have sought to have us licenced as a means of making even more money out of us.
Whatever your thoughts, be like good Boy Scouts and be prepared. The RYA is probably our best line of defence.

 

[Miker]

I agree. Bring back cock fighting and public executions.

 

[Gordon]

well public executions anyway.......about ten a day per city and town
should just bring the place back under control

 

[jimi]

I would vote for the return of the yardarm

Very useful bit of kit for knowing when to break out the booze & dangle villains from

 

[Guest]

Don't plan to use our Hillyard to hunt Wales.
Judging by the poor behaviour of some yachtties and mbts perhaps we need licensing. The idiots will eventually spoil it.

 

[jimi]

Agree, I've nae doot at all that the badly mannered yotties are of the same genre as the huntsfolk. Licencing wo'nt help though. What these people need is a decent upbringing being taught good manners & respect for other people & creatures. Unfortunately most of the so called public school educated have neither!

 

[tomg]

Hate to be negative but

surely it won't be that long before an activity that is -unlicenced, unregulated, that does not require either insurance or competence, that enjoys cheap fuel and, unlike foxhunting, does not have an enormously powerful lobby - will be the subject of legislation. I am pessimistic but agree that the RYA is our best hope or perhaps we all ought to offer free sailing 'jollies' to our local MPs. On second thoughts that might bring one of the last areas of freedom to their attention.

 

[tcm]

Re: red herrings

I wonder if perhaps the foxhunting debacle is a cleverly managed smokescreen to avoid taxing and licencsing of horses hmm?

Perhaps all boaters should begin a wispering campaign regarding their delight at um dolphin battering or seal clubbing, or some other cruel sport. There'll be all sorts of antis and discussions debates, culminating in years of stuff in parliament. Meanwhile, horseriding is free of tax, likewise boats.

 

[Buck]

Re: red herrings

I often go seal clubbing, but never tried dolphin battering, is it fun?

Buck

the past is past, only the future can change.

 

[hlb]

Re: red herrings

Ah. I get the idea Matt. Sort of like tax discs and number plates on cars instead of on people! So if we can get a Dolfin hunt organisation going. Just set off in the same direction. We dont have to catch any or even go in the right direction. Just as long as we call ourselves a hunt. So hunts get licence but not us. Of course Hounds would be prity useless at catching dolfins so need something else.

Dont forget to order your Burgee. PM me.

Haydn

 

[Guest]

You are right. There are far too many bad-mannered yachtsmen about in Britain. But they can't all be public school people can they?

William Cooper

 

[Guest]

Re: If you want cock-fighting come to France

Of course it is illegal. Of course it goes on. Of course various villages advertise the fights in their 'gallodromes'. And if you go, you will meet the local gendarme laying his bets like evryone else.

The odd thing is that over-regulated France is in many ways more free than England because nobody gives a toss about the rules.

William Cooper

 

[Guest]

Even though some would like to think so, it is not just your public school educated. Lack of respect for anything is endemi9c in this society. We have lost the moral imperitive. There are too many degrees of right and little idea of right and wrong. We have become a pathetically lower middle class society, where mealy mouthed and mediocre is the order of the day. I actually don't give a monkeys about fox hunting and the people who do it, the real issue is this idea of a third way. It's either wrong or right, cruel or not cruel. It was in the manifesto and the party was voted into power so whats the problem? More important is our attitude to each other. I work in a school for behaviourally disturbed boys. These lads can't help it but we should be able to.

 

[Guest]

Re: red herrings

If you are going to batter a dolphin I presume you have a very large frying pan to put it in.

 

[tcm]

Re: red herrings

Perhaps not dolphins then. Seal clubbing? - but we'll get the press going by saying that the female seals aren't allowed full membership.

 

[tcm]

Re: The Headmistress Gene

You are totally right. The French are devoid of this gene. In Britain, it is always there, tho sometimes latent. Promote someone in the UK, and they assume a slightly higher degree of military power which is never truly satisfied.

In France, a slightly heavier accent on "Monsieur", and going out of your way to shake hands with the harbourmaster and staff each morning. This is all that is required. And an occassional wine-related present in recognition of forgetting to charge you for various things.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Strange that most people think that hunting folk are all ex public school. I know a few people here in Somerset who hunt, none of them have been anywhere near a public school.

Same applies to most boaters.

 

[jimmie]

Right without responsibility is the curse of modern society.

 

[Guest]

Not many of us hunted at sandwell secondary. not for foxes anyway.

 

[pugwash]

Watch out for Brussels

The danger will come from the EU. The legislation tht sinks us will go through the Euro Parlt on the nod, like that stuff last week limiting use of chain saws (and sanding machines?) to an hour and a half a day, or something. I wonder if the RYA has somebody in Brussells or at least watching out for all this stuff.

However, I reckon the next to get it in the neck from the hunt-sab brigade will be fishermen, despite the cloth-cap image.