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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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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.