I make no apology to Elizabeth Allinson (Mailbox, November 11) who feels we should all "move on" regarding the Hunting Act brought in by a Government hell-bent on changing traditions that have been part of our heritage for centuries.

That simply isn't going to happen. This iniquitous and vindictive piece of legislation was more to do with class divisions and what Blair saw as populist politics than the preservation of the fox.

Are we really expected to believe the vermin fox should be given a higher priority on Government business than all other, far more serious, issues that beset this nation?

No thought was ever given to how it was going to be policed and the desire to have something on the statute book at all costs, with no regard to the implications within the countryside, renders this a bad law.

Ms Allinson's analogy of bad laws being introduced to stop speeding drivers and drivers using their mobile phones while driving is poppycock. These are designed to help save human life which should and quite rightly be put above the fox.

I would sooner the police caught these offenders, making our roads safer, than have them scurrying across the landscape in pursuit of saving the inedible.

My guess is the number of foxes caught by hunts are a miniscule proportion when measured against the ever increasing total fox population.

I wonder what the nouveau riche of the 90s, New Labour Blairites and other champagne socialists who have joined the ranks of the hunting fraternity over the last decade think now.

Personally, I have no particular interest in those who charge about the countryside with a greater risk of injuring themselves than actually catching a fox, but to bring in a pernicious law was an act of sheer folly and one that needs repealing at the earliest opportunity.

David Hankey, Great Easton.