THE picture of Prime Minister Cameron on your front page (March 22) cradling a piglet, with the caption, ‘PM brings home the bacon’, was a cynical propaganda exercise, in the wake of the debacle of the failed badger cull. Apparently the piglet was even named ‘Florence’, after Cameron’s youngest daughter. Cameron’s chief henchman, Owen Paterson, the so-called ‘Minister for the Environment’, has however stated that the badger cull will continue for years, despite overwhelming scientific and public opposition.

It’s a pity that the article failed to mention that Cameron has negotiated a deal to send live pigs to China, the country with the worst record on animal welfare in the world. It also failed to mention that Cameron has given the go ahead for the rearing of both pigs and dairy cows in American-style, mega-factory farms.

After the successful prosecution of his favourite hunt, The Heythrop, by the RSPCA, Cameron is now intent on trying to undermine the Hunting Act, since he knows full well that there is no possibility of him overturning the Act by proper democratic means. There is now, therefore, an urgent need for Cameron to be seen regularly in the media, stroking or cuddling as many different animals as possible in the lead-up to the next election.

M PRITCHARD
Linkside Avenue
Oxford