Who would want to block a law that would ban the use of wild animals in circuses?
Yes! The same Tory MP that blocked the bill to outlaw revenge evictions by landlords and also wanted to ban sex education. I don't normally get much involved in politics but this guy has converted me.
Perhaps I need to chill out more.....
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 18:36,
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A circus without wild animals is just a dog show.
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 18:50,
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Wild animals need to get a job like the rest of us
Immigrants half of them. Bunch of freeloaders.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 5 Dec 2014, 18:54,
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Zebras, tigers, the lot of 'em
Send the stripey fuckers back where they came from.
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Ghoti Fingers, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:05,
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Not a word of fucking English between them
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:08,
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A circus is not how some of these animals should be appreicated
and by fuck they need to be appreciated like more than ever given most of the traditional circus animals are tinkering on the brink of extinction. An elephant is shot every 15 mins out of a mixture of people's bloodlust in the hunt and Asia's unquenchable appetite for ivory. Lions, tigers, leopards, all are in serious trouble because human population has gone completely mental and habitats are colliding. And some people want to jump tigers through hoops, or cox an audience to thrill at a lion squatting on a stool? Fuck that
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:05,
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I knew that was you even before I got beyond the subject line
"An elephant is shot every 15 minutes". Poor fucker, how does it sleep?
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Ghoti Fingers, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:07,
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And giraffe populations are collapsing almost as fast
There is going to be nothing there in a few years
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:10,
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All the more reason to put them in the safety and humane conditions of Chinese circuses.
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 21:19,
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I have to. If Jahled's right, I have very little time!
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 21:05,
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“The circus is a Great British institution"
is it??
people actually go to the circus these days?
it sounds like he has friends in the circus biz with deep pockets.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:50,
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The few circuses I've been to since I had kids
Have all been with no animals, but are still fairly 'traditional', and IMHO are way better than the ones with animals as they've put a load of creative thought into the performances. The ever increasing quality of wildlife documentaries has convinced me that in nearly every case the most interesting things wild animals do is in the wild.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 20:53,
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This
or at the very least a well run zoological collection where the animals can at least do their own thing, not jump to like regimented clowns. Environmental tourism is probably going to be the solution for a lot of animal wildlife, which is the next step on from modern zoos. They'll have a better chance of not being poached, though part of the problem with African reservations is quite simply how massive the place is. Trying to protect reservations half the size of a small European country is as you would imagine practically impossible. And poaching shows no signs of diminishing.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 21:47,
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That is why I asked. I think I have been to one circus I was 5 and hated it.
When my kids were little they much preferred a trip out to the everglades or nature reserve with some educational thing attached than a zoo. a circus would have had them crying as they all have a healthy fear of clowns. I seriously had no idea travelling circuses with elephants and things still were a thing people do, no less something someone would claim to be 'an institution'
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 21:57,
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I would just let your kids run through Miami on a Saturday afternoon. More freaks there than a trainload of circuses.
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 22:07,
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That always makes for an educational trip out.
'Kids, keep your hands inside the vehicle, and don't feed the wildlife'
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 22:11,
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The subject matter of the bill is fine by me but what I don't get......
is how 3 out of 360+ MP's can block a bill? We are still a democracy aren't we? Surely the vote of the other mp's outweighs the 3?
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NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 19:58,
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Extraordinary the hoops they'll jump through
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 22:18,
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Who the fuck even goes to a circus these days?
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 22:46,
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