Wrong priorities
From Susan Panikkar Sir: I work as a trained nurse, specialising in the care of elderly people.
I do not ride or hunt.
I am at a loss to understand why the government deems it fit to spend parliamentary time, money and effort trying to bring about a Bill banning hunting. It seems to me, and I'm sure most other people, that there are lots more pressing issues, eg: the continuing problems of the NHS; the crisis in privately run care homes; the fact that many elderly people in the UK are malnourished; the lack of an integrated public transport system; and that so many British-educated children are leaving school without basic literacy and numeracy skills, to name but a few.
I can only deduce that this fixation of the government on banning hunting is linked to the £1.1 million received by Labour pre election from the animal welfare groups. Would I be correct?
Susan Panikkar
Worthing, West Sussex
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