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[tinyjo]

Meant to write about this yesterday but got distracted. In a letter to the Prime Minister Prince Charles claimed that farmers were more victimised than blacks or gay people. It left me spluttering with disbelief and outrage when I heard it on the radio - how dare he! He's just got no clue. He's also quoted as saying

"If the Labour government ever gets round to banning fox hunting, I might as well leave this country and spend the rest of my life skiing."

A pretty strong argument in favour of a ban I would have thought!

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[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Jo, just as a point worth considering: are you actually a member of any one of those three groups? Why do you feel more justified in your opinion of which group might or might not suffer more victimisation in today's social and economic climate? Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with you, you understand, but it's something to bear in mind before getting outraged. It's not necessarily an entirely invalid point, even if wrong.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I lived in a farming community for most of my life - which is what gives me such strong contempt for pressure groups like the countryside alliance, full of the sort of farmers I used to know, rich, greedy and sulking because suddenly they're slightly less subsidised and propped up than they were. It particularly got to me because I've been reading http://www.trabaca.com of late - written by a gay man who's just come out to his parents and is now receiveing 'presents' from them of books about how to be cured of his sexuality. No-one get's disowned by their parents or accused of being a freak for deciding they want to be a farmer.