It's a tally ho, tally ho issue

It is interesting that the virtually unemployed John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, should admit this about fox hunting:

"I think the majority of people in my constituency, quite frankly, see it as one of those tally ho, tally ho issues and nothing to do with modern Britain."

Of course, what he really means when he quotes his constituency is that this is what he thinks about fox hunting.

Why interesting? Well, because he doesn't mention cruelty. It's a tally ho, tally ho issue. I think it's clear what he means by that and it is not incompatible with the opinion of Peter Bradley, the parliamentary private secretary to Alun Michael, that the fox hunting issue was at least in part a class war.

Now, some of you might accuse me of putting words into Prescott's mouth by equating his tally ho comments with what I think he means. In my defence I would like to say that someone needs to put words into his mouth and that it might as well be me.

Posted by John at November 23, 2004 10:29 AM | TrackBack