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Hounding out

Seeing David Cameron on the televised debates, and reading his manifesto, it is clear why he felt at home among the infamously elitist Bullingdon Club while at Oxford University.

There is plenty in his words and actions to terrify caring, compassionate people who seek to make our world better for all.

To take the UK forward we need a Prime Minister in whom all the usual strengths are tempered by humanity and with the insight to be inclusive rather than exclusive.

Mr Cameron is flawed in all these areas and with his enthusiasm for bloodsports is clearly far better suited to being a Master of Hounds.

MJ Huskisson, Animal Welfare Information Service

Comments(7)

MadleyResident says...
9:00am Tue 4 May 10

I do sometimes wonder if people watch the same debates and read the same literature as I do.
Yes, by all means criticise his position on hunting, but this does not mean that all his other polices are going to "terrify caring, compassionate people".

Darth Formby says...
7:05pm Tue 4 May 10

Madleyresident, Tory promises they have changed have been exposed as a sham. This calendar of calamities shows how party members have continually been caught insulting voters and making racist remarks.
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Conservative leader David Cameron has tried to ditch the "Nasty Party" image and said: "Our members are the most socially-engaged, the most civic-minded, the most neighbourly bunch of people in Britain."
How did all of this come about then?

January 15, 2009: Chester Conservative councillor Richard Lowe apologies after going to a New Year fancy-dress party dressed as Madeleine McCann.
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January 28: Nottinghamshire Tory councillor David Taylor is criticised for hanging a topless calendar in his office.
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February 25: Cumbria county council leader Tim Stoddard says that helping poor families pay for school uniforms is a waste of money.
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February 28: Bolton Conservative councillor Bob Allen apologises after being slammed for posting a picture of a gorilla alongside a comment about an Asian colleague on a blog.
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March 9: Leicestershire Tory councillor Robert Fraser claims gypsies would "stick a knife in you as soon as look at you".
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March 11: Peterborough Conservative councillor Wayne Fitzgerald calls voters "idiots" and "morons" and tells one to "boil their head" after they disagreed with his plans for a new water park.
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April 14: Derbyshire Tory councillor Patrick Clark calls gay people "sexual deviants".
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April 30: A Conservative councillor in Essex, Chris Walker, apologises for saying British women should walk nude in the street to make Islamic men commit suicide because their religion forbids them from seeing any naked woman other than their wife.
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May 27: Former Conservative Party candidate Ross Coates says "all women should be sterilised" to stop them getting pregnant at work, employment tribunal is told.
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May 29: The leader of East Sussex county council, Peter Jones, says he is "good value for money" after receiving £91,000 in allowances and expenses in just one year.
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June 12: Tory MP Peter Lilley attacks the help given to pregnant women, saying payments for food and baby equipment are "complete rubbish".
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June 24: Kidderminster Conservative councillor Mumshad Ahmed, who twice drove while disqualified, apologises after a court bans him from driving for two years.
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July 2: An investigation blames Stretford Conservative councillor Ian Mullins for a vicious internet campaign against a female colleague that compared her to Hitler.
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July 7: London Assembly member Brian Coleman refuses to publicise expenses saying "only the mad, bad and the sad" wanted to see. He adds: "I'm not pandering to mob rule."
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August 21: Gosport Conservative chairman Alan Scard says he would only pick a woman to stand in one of the party's safest seats if she was good looking. Asked if he was happy to support David Cameron's call to put more women in Parliament, he says: "If they are attractive, yeah, I would go for it."
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August 26: Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan describes the NHS as a "60-year-old mistake" and hails Enoch Powell as his political hero.
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September 1: Oxford University Conservative Association is condemned after students hold a sick competition to see who could tell the most offensive racist joke.
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September 9: Tooting councillor Susan John-Richards quits the Conservative Party after claiming she endured three years of sexual discrimination from the Tory group.
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October 15: A former Mayor of Brent, councillor Bertha Joseph, is suspended after taking money intended for a charity ball and spending it on clothes.
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October 22: Former adviser to Margaret Thatcher and vicechairman of Goldman Sachs Lord Griffiths defends bankers' bonuses and says taxpayers should "tolerate the inequality".
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November 2: Disgraced Tory MP David Wilshire compares the treatment of politicians over their expenses claims to the plight of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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November 20: An Orpington councillor, Peter Hobbins, is suspended from the Conservative Party after sending emails ranting that Asian prospective parliamentary candidates do not have "normal sounding" English names.
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December 7: Tory candidate for Dorset South changes his quadrupled-barrelled name, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-
Drax, to Richard Drax on posters.
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December 31: MEP Daniel Hannan says that no "sane" person would support the NHS.

MadleyResident says...
8:01am Wed 5 May 10

Darth, I can see that this must be something of an obsession for you.
If I had the time or inclination I could find equally sordid quotes and actions from members of all major political parties. They all have their "black sheep".
I do not condemn a whole party for the actions of a few.

J_Gasper says...
9:47am Wed 5 May 10

One major reason to vote UKIP at this election is to save university education in this country. We are the education party. UKIP is the only party pledged to abolishing tuition fees immediately and wholly (not bit by bit in the dim and distant future and funding it through a graduate tax like the Libdems.) We are also pledged to restoring the student grant. Not a loan. A grant. We oppose the graduate tax which is about to be introduced by Labour, Libdem or Conservative. We also oppose the Bologna Process, which the UK government has foolishly signed, extending all degree courses to five years merely for the sake of uniformity across Europe. UKIP says to hell with that! A five-year unfunded degree course would be available only to the rich. Loans and graduate taxes put off poorer students and women. To save university education in this country, WAKE UP Britain and vote UKIP.

J_Gasper says...
9:54am Wed 5 May 10

The Libdem leader accepted £3.5 million pounds in illegal donations to his campaign from non-doms, people who don't live in Britain for tax purposes (only when it suits them). Clegg did not even blush as he made excuses and pathetically tried to pretend there was a moral difference between him and the Tories.
Clegg is a liar and a hypocrite, a real brazen crook.
He is all style and no substance. He learned his part, imitating David Cameron, and impressed a TV audience who watch dummies like him on soap opera every evening.
What would you expect of the LibLabCon trio? They are all the same. It makes no difference at all whether the Libdems' dirty donors are lords or hold positions in their party - the point is that by giving money in an election campaign they are influencing the outcome of that election, meddling in government when they avoid paying taxes. It is disgraceful that the Electoral Commission does not demand they pay the money back.
No wonder Clegg is soft on crime - he has a fellow-feeling with the criminals and wants to stay out of goal himself.

J_Gasper says...
9:56am Wed 5 May 10

http://oxfordshire.u
kip.org/articles/745
-julia-gasper-ukip-p
pc-oxford-east
http://www.timeshigh
ereducation.co.uk/st
ory.asp?storycode=41
1147
http://juliagasper.b
logspot.com/2010/04/
is-there-no-end-to-t
heir-effrontery.html

http://juliagasper.b
logspot.com/2010/04/
clegg-brazens-it-out
.html

J_Gasper says...
10:01am Wed 5 May 10

M J Huskisson says that it is "humanity" to ban fox-hunting. Yet foxes kill rabbits, chickens, geese and ducks, and a man, Trevor Morse, was killed by an anti-hunt monitor in a helicopter. For the sake of protecting a fox, a human being was subjected to a ghastly death, having his head sliced off by a propellor! It makes no sense at all. Labour’s hunting ban should be repealed and each county given the right to decide whether to allow fox-hunting, depending on the numbers of foxes sighted.
http://oxfordshire.u
kip.org/articles/745
-julia-gasper-ukip-p
pc-oxford-east

By the way, I wonder why there is no link to comment on other stories apart from this one. Is fox-hunting the only issue in this election?

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