Results 1-15 of 15 for hunting speaker:Lord Corbett of Castle Vale

Hunting Bill (16 Sep 2003)

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, around 350 supporters of hunting with dogs have urged me to oppose a ban on this activity. They use three main arguments: first, that a ban ignores the wishes of the rural community; secondly, that it would remove what is described as a fundamental freedom; and thirdly, that this House should make what is described as "good law". I wish to respond. First, the largest number of...

Hunting With Dogs (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...on the calm and sensible manner with which he has responded to the views of the overwhelming majority of Members of the House? Did he happen to see photographs on BBC's "Newsnight" of the Beaufort hunt terrier man, Thomas Burton, feeding foxes in man-made dens? Does that not give a lie to claims that this barbaric pastime has anything to do with pest control?

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...overwhelming support of electors in both town and country: 80 out of every 100 people polled, not in a straw poll but in a national opinion poll in November 1991, said that they disapproved of fox hunting. Indeed, I can tell Conservative Members that 67 out of every 100 people who say that they intend to vote Conservative at the coming election are also opposed to fox hunting. Another...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...that foxes are useful in controlling rabbits and rodents. Two out of every three farmers say that they suffer no financial loss from fox damage. Indeed, we know that in areas where there are fox hunts—this has been said in today's debate—great care is taken by those who hunt to construct artificial earths and stick heaps for foxes to breed in and to feed and nurture foxes...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: In a moment. If, as the hunters argue, foxes are a vicious pest that must be driven from the face of the countryside, why all the tender loving care towards them? Most hunts know exactly where foxes live in their area and could easily dispatch them by shooting, if they chose to do so. If it is argued that shooting runs the risk of injuring rather than killing the fox, one wonders whether it...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...at their beauty and dignity. Some people—a minority—claim that it is perfectly all right to turn our countryside into the killing fields. There is no justification for any form of hunting with hounds in this day and age—if there ever was—and for such wanton cruelty to wildlife to continue under the name of sport. It is no such thing. It is the organised ritual...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: ..., hare, stag or badger needlessly killed, and in some cases have those children blooded. What effect do they think that that has on a young mind, and what does killing for pleasure do to people who hunt over the years? I am aware of, and have seen at first hand, the care that estate owners and landowners take with the conservation and protection of the threatened environment in our...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...' protest at the Stoneleigh showground in Warwickshire were under close instruction to make themselves look more like a squad from "The Archers" than those engaged in bloodsports. The National Hunt Committee memo instructed: There will be no hounds, no red coats, no top hats, no hunting horns. Banners should be made which state clearly the county you are from eg 'Gloucester farmers say...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...from a number of newspapers which circulate almost exclusively in rural areas. On 6 December 1991 the West Cumbria Evening News reported: Cumbrian villagers are up in arms after claiming that fox hunters cause 'mayhem' in the countryside … Anne Watson, of Newcroft Kennels, Mawbray, said 'I was appalled at the mayhem they caused.' The Western Daily Press on 23 December 1991 stated:...

Orders of the Day — Badgers Bill: Amendment of S.Ii of Badgers Act 1973 (10 May 1991)

Mr Robin Corbett: ..., which is being promoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen). I also hope that, after the next general election, when the Labour Government introduce a Bill to abolish all forms of hunting with hounds, on a free vote, those hon. Members will again strive for consensus. As has already been said, the Bill is, regrettably, neither the end of the matter of adequate protection...

New Clause 64: Right of Anonymity to All Victims of and Defendants in Sexual Offences Cases (28 Jun 1988)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...to find a suspect who is also wanted in connection with other serious criminal offences. That claim is nonsense. I acknowledge that in some circumstances—for example, the horrific M50 murder hunt—the use of indentikit drawings or photographs can help in tracing a suspect, but if that needs to be done the police can say that the man they are looking for is wanted in connection...

Orders of the Day — Access to Personal Files Bill (20 Feb 1987)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...they walk into a doctor's waiting room, pliantly thumb through dog-eared copies of ancient magazines, go in to see the doctor and then sit in total silence while the doctor goes on a lengthy hunt to discover what is wrong. That simply does not happen. The best doctors invite and welcome the patient's view on what is wrong as part of the process of treatment. It is even stranger than that....

Orders of the Day — Obscene Publications (Protection of Children, Etc.) (Amendment) Bill (24 Jan 1986)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...hit for the sole aim of knocking him senseless dreadful. I believe that it would be caught by the Bill's phrase vicious cruelty towards persons". Similarly, the televising of steeple-chasing or fox-hunting would be caught by the "vicious cruelty" to animals provison. Pictures of struggling or recently killed fish I find unacceptable, and one could argue that they came within the...

Debate on the Address (3 Nov 1977)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...Corporation and then the Commission who were responsible for our splendid development. Hemel Hempstead was given a charter by Henry VIII. It is believed locally that this was because on his way to hunt in Ashridge Forest—and the deer are still there despite him—he courted the ill-fated Anne Boleyn in a quiet garden at the back of St. Mary's Church. Today his head—or...

Cabinet Documents (Disclosure) (28 Jun 1976)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...before the thousands of poor families who will be the suffererers because of this change of mind? I hope—there has been no hint of it so far—that there will be no call for a witch hunt of either civil servants or journalists. I am not experienced in the ways of this House or the workings of Whitehall, but it is right that the old-fashioned dictum of Ministers taking...