The Network
The Master’s Voice: The Network
TMV has a mission: to create the largest data-base of like-minded people who will, by registering with us - make a statement of being counted, and pledge to become actively involved in the democratic process for a repeal of the Hunting Act 04 which is now firmly on the political agenda.
Hunting is such a complex business - and business it is, as it delivers untold revenue to the UK rural economy - that it simply cannot be understood by the odd casual visit to a hunt meet. It takes years to truly understand what unfolds on a hunting day. And that’s just the public exterior of the thing.
In many areas of rural Britain, hunting’s ‘unseen’ remains so interwoven in the fabric of society it that would be unthinkable to let go. It is the only flux that truly brings communities together: urban and rurals, capitalist and socialist; all occupations, ages, colours and creeds, peers and paupers.
It is where families cement friendships and folk build bridges. In many cases it is their only prompt for social gathering, and it creates bonds wide across the British countryside and beyond, which no other entity could even contemplate. And the ill-informed want us to let this go. No chance.
Such was the fury of blood-and-guts propaganda from the anti-brigade that a tide of bitter emotion was allowed to be washed over the bewildered MP’s of this land. Faced with only half the facts, they innocently gave an emotional reaction to the much convoluted question put before them in Parliament: a free vote on the fate of hunting.
But this time it will be different. We can changes things if we cohesively act together to inform MPs and the electorate of the other side of the coin - in the run up to the next General Election. Those wheels are already in motion, and now is the time to join us. We’d like all field sports persons to stand shoulders with us on this.
It's not just hunting at stake, it's the whole way of life we know and enjoy. To make hunting happen, we hunters have to draw understanding from all: the villages, farming, field sports, the highways and the byways of the whole thing. We are not against change as we believe the countryside is a living, breathing, evolving economic tapestry. Nor do we do shun input from our urban brethren, many of whom enjoy our sports and pastimes.
We must make a stance, or again be trampled to death by those who do not understand our holistic approach to the management of rural Britain. Our responsibility for the countryside has never waned, and together we will shortly have control of our wildlife back in safe hands.
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