Vindictive claim (From The Oxford Times)

Vindictive claim

9:50am Thursday 4th March 2010 in Letters

Sir – In her diatribe against fox hunting (Letters, February 11), Bea Bradley implies that the sole reason anyone would want to vote Conservative is to see the ban on this ‘sport’ removed.

However, whilst I personally abhor blood sports and would prefer the ban to remain (the fact that it is virtually unenforceable is another matter), this issue is surely one of the very least of the Tories’ priorities.

Inevitably, whichever party one supports there will be some policies with which one disagrees, and the voter has many far more vital issues to consider than the re-legalization of fox hunting, regrettable as that might be. But what is particularly offensive in Ms Bradley’s letter is her spiteful and vindictive claim that the established Church condones the practice when “a living animal is eviscerated for the pleasure of humans”.

As one who regularly moves in church circles (Anglican and otherwise), I can assure her that the vast majority of true Christians do not approve of animal cruelty, and this kind of unfair generalization is totally uncalled for.

Lee Graham, Headington