Well said.

The bottom line is the protests succeeded in making it an issue instead of a fait accompli. The media are now comparing it to other great historic protests etc...and now seem to be referring to the whole countryside when talking about pro-hunt supporters, instead of the small elite group they were set out as before...

You can't ban fishing Saeed....I just bought a bloody boat!

Until last wednesday in Parliament Square you would have had to look a long way to have found somebody more pro-police, pro law and order than me. That is now changed for ever.

Wednesday's demonstration was composed of angry and vocal but composed people, about twenty thousand of them. The square was full but by no means packed. The police were restricting access to the square so that there were several thousand more in the streets around who were unable to get into the square except through the north west corner. The crowd got dense in that area squashed up against a barrier and a waist high wall. As those at the front got more squashed the police told them to move back�but of course they could not due to the weight of people from behind.
Suddenly�mayhem! Fifty policemen start battoning the front rows over the head, and doing so with no regard to who they were hitting and what damage they were doing. Obviously the situation got worse, fear and panic by most people, retaliation by a very few. I saw many people with nasty head wounds, both male and females alike.

AT 6pm the demo ended and the crowd dispersed, to be met by literally hundreds of black clad, shield holding, helmeted and balaclavered police. Very intimidating and clearly itching for a fight. I saw elderly women being pushed about as they tried to leave the square.

I have never been so disgusted at the behaviour of the Police.

I cannot stress too much that at no time had the crowd that I saw threatened the police or been anywhere else but behind the barriers.
What were the police thinking of?
Who gave them their orders?

I guess the truth is that these are the consequences of have a police force that operates in its own climate of fear, one that has been imposed on them by a combination of external forces (terrorism and the debacle at Buckingham Palace) and their masters, the labour party politicians who fear their own electorate (and back benchers). The police have clearly lost their ability to differentiate between real threats and merely vocal demonstrations against the symbols of authority and the politicians who occupy them.

Friends, we have a duty to fight this ban.
If you don�t hunt though you must be under no illusions, this is still your fight.
They will come for shooting next, and then fishing

Glad you agree Bob

This is the sort of nonsense we have to put up with on this very site LINK