The Political Parties

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay]

We have a general election on the horizon.

All of us, as anglers, I am sure, will want to vote for the party where the future of our sport is ensured.

I would like this discussion to be as serious as possible as many of you know that my voiced opinion of the Labour Party and it's attitude to angling is in the negative.

But I do not want to be dogmatic.

What are the policies of the various political parties regarding our sport? I do know that the Conservative party if elected will overturn the hunting ban and that is a fact!

Yet is it possible to find out from the various parties just what their agendas are on angling?

Let's put our vote where it counts.

[ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)]

Why not e-mail all the parties headquarters and ask, if you really want to know Ron ......

[Homie]

Do you realy expect people to vote for a party just because they have a more sympathetic outlook towards country pursuits?

How about voting for the party that offers the best solutions towards

Policing
The NHS
The economy
Europe
Immigration etc.

Just a thought.

[Ergo]

In the local elections, we had two female waana be councillors. I listened to their policies with great interest, but there seemed to be a muddling of the party line somewhere. I found very little between them and their policies.

After weighing all of the relevant information up, I did the horonable thind and voted, for the one with the shortest skirt and biggest bust.

[Dave Mcadam 1]

Ron,I think you may be mistaken my freind.On the K.A phone in this morning,on radio 5 live,he stated that more than half the Conservatives voted for the ban.

[ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)]

of course they did ....

(There are none so blind as those who don't want to see ..................)

[Big Rik]

Dave and Ed,

yourselves, as well as Keith Arthur are all very much mistaken.

Now I know that the Conservative party don't hold many seats in parliment currently, but only 9 of their members have ever voted for a ban.
I don't class that as over 50%.

People should get that facts straight about who is trying to ban our passion.

Don't foget to vote on the ITV news site that I posted in another thread.

I'll post all the MP's that voted to ban hunting below.

[Big Rik]

Abbott, Diane Lab
Adams, Irene Lab
Ainger, Nick Lab
Ainsworth, Bob Lab
Alexander, Douglas Lab
Allan, Richard LD
Allen, Graham Lab
Amess, David Con
Anderson, Donald Lab
Anderson, Janet Lab
Armstrong, Hilary Lab
Atherton, Candy Lab
Atkins, Charlotte Lab
Atkinson, David Con
Austin, John Lab
Bailey, Adrian Lab/Co-op
Baird, Vera Lab
Baker, Norman LD
Banks, Tony Lab
Barnes, Harry Lab
Barrett, John LD
Barron, Kevin Lab
Battle, John Lab
Bayley, Hugh Lab
Beard, Nigel Lab
Beckett, Margaret Lab
Begg, Anne Lab
Beggs, Roy UU
Bell, Stuart Lab
Benn, Hilary Lab
Bennett, Andrew Lab
Benton, Joe Lab
Berry, Roger Lab
Best, Harold Lab
Betts, Clive Lab
Blackman, Liz Lab
Blears, Hazel Lab
Blizzard, Bob Lab
Blunkett, David Lab
Boateng, Paul Lab
Borrow, David Lab
Bradley, Keith Lab
Bradley, Peter Lab
Bradshaw, Ben Lab
Brake, Tom LD
Breed, Colin LD
Brennan, Kevin Lab
Brooke, Annette LD
Brown, Nick Lab
Brown, Russell Lab
Browne, Des Lab
Bryant, Chris Lab
Buck, Karen Lab
Burden, Richard Lab
Burgon, Colin Lab
Burnham, Andy Lab
Burstow, Paul LD
Byers, Stephen Lab
Cable, Vincent LD
Caborn, Richard Lab
Cairns, David Lab
Calton, Patsy LD
Campbell, Alan Lab
Campbell, Anne Lab
Campbell, Ronnie Lab
Caplin, Ivor Lab
Carmichael, Alistair LD
Casale, Roger Lab
Caton, Martin Lab
Cawsey, Ian Lab
Challen, Colin Lab
Chapman, Ben Lab
Chaytor, David Lab
Chidgey, David LD
Clapham, Michael Lab
Clark, Helen Lab
Clark, Lynda Lab
Clark, Paul Lab
Clarke, Charles Lab
Clarke, Tom Lab
Clarke, Tony Lab
Clelland, David Lab
Clwyd, Ann Lab
Coaker, Vernon Lab
Coffey, Ann Lab
Cohen, Harry Lab
Coleman, Iain Lab
Colman, Tony Lab
Connarty, Michael Lab
Cook, Frank Lab
Cooper, Yvette Lab
Corbyn, Jeremy Lab
Corston, Jean Lab
Cotter, Brian LD
Cousins, Jim Lab
Cox, Tom Lab
Cranston, Ross Lab
Crausby, David Lab
Cruddas, Jon Lab
Cryer, Ann Lab
Cryer, John Lab
Cummings, John Lab
Cunningham, Jack Lab
Cunningham, Jim Lab
Cunningham, Tony Lab
Curtis-Thomas, Claire Lab
Darling, Alistair Lab
Davey, Edward LD
Davey, Valerie Lab
David, Wayne Lab
Davidson, Ian Lab/Co-op
Davies, Denzil Lab
Davies, Geraint Lab
Davis, Terry Lab
Dawson, Hilton Lab
Dean, Janet Lab
Denham, John Lab
Dhanda, Parmjit Lab
Dismore, Andrew Lab
Dobbin, Jim Lab/Co-op
Dobson, Frank Lab
Donaldson, Jeffrey M. Ind U
Donohoe, Brian H. Lab
Doran, Frank Lab
Dowd, Jim Lab
Drew, David Lab/Co-op
Drown, Julia Lab

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Eagle, Angela Lab
Eagle, Maria Lab
Edwards, Huw Lab
Efford, Clive Lab
Ellman, Louise Lab/Co-op
Ennis, Jeff Lab
Etherington, Bill Lab
Farrelly, Paul Lab
Field, Frank Lab
Fisher, Mark Lab
Fitzpatrick, Jim Lab
Fitzsimons, Lorna Lab
Flint, Caroline Lab
Flynn, Paul Lab
Follett, Barbara Lab
Foster, Derek Lab
Foster, Don LD
Foster, Michael Lab
Foster, Michael Jabez Lab
Foulkes, George Lab/Co-op
Francis, Hywel Lab
Gale, Roger Con
Galloway, George Lab
Gapes, Mike Lab/Co-op
Gardiner, Barry Lab
George, Andrew LD
Gerrard, Neil Lab
Gibson, Ian Lab
Gidley, Sandra LD
Gilroy, Linda Lab/Co-op
Godsiff, Roger Lab
Goggins, Paul Lab
Griffiths, Jane Lab
Griffiths, Nigel Lab
Griffiths, Win Lab
Grogan, John Lab
Hain, Peter Lab
Hall, Mike Lab
Hall, Patrick Lab
Hamilton, David Lab
Hamilton, Fabian Lab
Hancock, Mike LD
Hanson, David Lab
Harman, Harriet Lab
Harris, Evan LD
Harris, Tom Lab
Havard, Dai Lab
Healey, John Lab
Henderson, Doug Lab
Henderson, Ivan Lab
Hendrick, Mark Lab/Co-op
Hepburn, Stephen Lab
Heppell, John Lab
Hermon, Lady UU
Hesford, Stephen Lab
Hewitt, Patricia Lab
Heyes, David Lab
Hill, Keith Lab
Hinchliffe, David Lab
Hodge, Margaret Lab
Holmes, Paul LD
Hood, Jimmy Lab
Hoon, Geoff Lab
Hope, Phil Lab/Co-op
Hopkins, Kelvin Lab
Howarth, Alan Lab
Howarth, George Lab
Howarth, Gerald Con
Howells, Kim Lab
Hoyle, Lindsay Lab
Hughes, Beverley Lab
Hughes, Kevin Lab
Hughes, Simon LD
Humble, Joan Lab
Hurst, Alan Lab
Hutton, John Lab
Iddon, Brian Lab
Illsley, Eric Lab
Ingram, Adam Lab
Jackson, Glenda Lab
Jackson, Helen Lab
Jamieson, David Lab
Jenkins, Brian Lab
Johnson, Alan Lab
Johnson, Melanie Lab
Jones, Helen Lab
Jones, Jon Owen Lab/Co-op
Jones, Kevan Lab
Jones, Lynne Lab
Jones, Martyn Lab
Jones, Nigel LD
Jowell, Tessa Lab
Joyce, Eric Lab
Kaufman, Gerald Lab
Keeble, Sally Lab
Keen, Alan Lab/Co-op
Keen, Ann Lab
Kelly, Ruth Lab
Kemp, Fraser Lab
Kennedy, Charles LD
Kennedy, Jane Lab
Khabra, Piara S Lab
Kidney, David Lab
Kilfoyle, Peter Lab
King, Andy Lab
King, Oona Lab
Knight, Jim Lab
Kumar, Ashok Lab

[Big Rik]

Ladyman, Stephen Lab
Lammy, David Lab
Lawrence, Jackie Lab
Laws, David LD
Laxton, Bob Lab
Lazarowicz, Mark Lab/Co-op
Lepper, David Lab/Co-op
Leslie, Christopher Lab
Levitt, Tom Lab
Lewis, Ivan Lab
Lewis, Terry Lab
Liddell, Helen Lab
Linton, Martin Lab
Lloyd, Tony Lab
Love, Andrew Lab/Co-op
Lucas, Ian Lab
Luke, Iain Lab
Lyons, John Lab
MacDonald, Calum Lab
MacDougall, John Lab
Mackinlay, Andrew Lab
MacShane, Denis Lab
Mactaggart, Fiona Lab
Mahmood, Khalid Lab
Mahon, Alice Lab
Mallaber, Judy Lab
Marris, Rob Lab
Marsden, Gordon Lab
Marsden, Paul LD
Marshall, David Lab
Marshall, Jim Lab
Marshall-Andrews,Robert Lab
Martlew, Eric Lab
McAvoy, Thomas Lab/Co-op
McCabe, Stephen Lab
McCafferty, Chris Lab
McCartney, Ian Lab
McDonagh, Siobhain Lab
McDonnell, John Lab
McFall, John Lab/Co-op
McGuire, Anne Lab
McIsaac, Shona Lab
McKechin, Ann Lab
McKenna, Rosemary Lab
McNamara, Kevin Lab
McNulty, Tony Lab
McWalter, Tony Lab/Co-op
McWilliam, John Lab
Meacher, Michael Lab
Meale, Alan Lab
Merron, Gillian Lab
Michael, Alun Lab/Co-op
Milburn, Alan Lab
Miliband, David Lab
Miller, Andrew Lab
Moffatt, Laura Lab
Mole, Chris Lab
Moonie, Lewis Lab/Co-op
Moran, Margaret Lab
Morgan, Julie Lab
Morley, Elliot Lab
Morris, Estelle Lab
Mountford, Kali Lab
Mudie, George Lab
Mullin, Chris Lab
Munn, Meg Lab/Co-op
Murphy, Denis Lab
Murphy, Jim Lab
Murphy, Paul Lab
Naysmith, Doug Lab/Co-op
Norris, Dan Lab