In article , Sacha
writes

The ban on foxhunting is about a class war and not animal welfare a member
of the Government admitted last night.
Peter Bradley an aide to Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael, said his
fellow Labour MPs felt so strongly about hunting because it was a chance to
"take on the gentry".

That's not quite what he said!

"It was class war. But it was not class war as we know it. It was not
launched by the tribunes against the toffs - it was the other way round.
This was not about the politics of envy, but the politics of power.
Ultimately it's about who governs Britain," the MP wrote.

To make himself clear, Mr Bradley, who is an unpaid parliamentary
private secretary to Alun Michael, the rural affairs minister,
maintained that the countryside demonstrations had been about the fast-
eroding power of the landed classes, not about the real countryside.
"That's why they oppose the right to roam and a ban on hunting. For them
it's ownership of property, especially land, and not citizenship, that
confers privilege," he wrote. "





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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"