Hunting, Scotland and the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)

By Justin Stakes

London, UK -(AmmoLand.com)- You may remember that, in July last year, in the blink of an eye the Scottish Nationalist Party went from a clear and often repeated policy that it would not vote on the Hunting Act because it only affects England and Wales, to a clearly stated policy that it would vote on the Hunting Act because it could.

We all know that the reason for this was an irresistible opportunity to provoke the Conservatives and David Cameron after the Government had announced its intention to amend the law on hunting to bring it into line with Scottish legislation. The SNP, however, felt it had to provide some ‘cover’ so despite the fact that no one believes for a second that the motivation for its policy u-turn had nothing to do with hunting, it announced that it would be reviewing hunting legislation in Scotland.

That cover was blown from any number of directions, amongst them the fact that the Scottish Environment Minister Aileen Macleod had written to our own Director for Scotland just three weeks earlier telling him that the Scottish Government had …Read the Rest

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