Hunting Bill

[juliet]

Short version: we won! Both our amendments (no fox-hunting & no mink-hunting) went through with massive majorities. The Government gave up & withdrew their latest attempt at compromise.

Long version: now it all gets wonderfully complicated. Firstly the Bill has to go back to committee (probably only for half a day) to be "tidied up". Then it goes to the Lords, hopefully next week. They'll amend/reject it, there will be a bit of backwards & forwards with the Commons, but the eventual outcome will be rejection by the Lords. Whereupon it needs to be reintroduced next Parliamentary session (i.e. November, earliest), voted through again by the Commons, sat on for a month at least by the Lords (though they will probably muck around for longer than that), & then it gets Royal Assent (all this is the Parliament Act). November 2004, that should be.

So we're not quite there yet, but it is all looking *very good indeed* for our lot. Hurrah. I only wish I felt a bit more generally better, cos I really ought to be bouncier than I feel right at the moment.

Comments

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! There was some evil nonsense on Countryfile last week about mink killing voles, and then they brought in Nick Griffin to talk about the damage being done to native species by foreign invaders. Speaking as a rural village dweller I was, as they say, agog.

Also, tentatively, what are you doing on Tuesday August 5th? Also (I was going to e-mail, but since I'm here now) are you the sort of person that keeps e-mail forever or the sort of person that is good at deleting it due to quota issues?

[juliet]

Mink have had an adverse impact on water voles, but only because environmental changes had already seriously damaged the population - reversing those, or at least making improvements, would be a much better solution to the problem.

Tuesday August 5th: I'm teaching at GIFT & won't be finishing till about 9.30pm. Why?

Email: keep forever. No quota issues on the, & when still using ermine I just chucked stuff across to jarvis every so often. I'm a hoarder, fundamentally.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yes but Nick Griffin... it was weird. Countryfile documentary on the BNP. I mean admittedly it said 'and they're racists', but not very forcefully.

Ah well, forget August then, merely that I think we might at some point be inclined to venture here, and that day is one such night, and also the day before I need to be in London anyway.

As to e-mail, I never delete any, yet my sent-mail only goes back to February. There are a number of historically significant messages from me dating to the, umm, dunno, November to January period, which you may have copies of. Yesnomaybe?

[juliet]

Caberet thing - hrm, possibly, though in general it's not really my sort of thing (yes, I know, Mr Jeays, but he's *different*!). Maybe Sept, though?

Yep, I have archives of our emails going back to May 2001, though I don't promise that *everything* has been saved. I could send you the message file? Note that it's likely out of order - mutt sorts it all out for me, but I've catted files together on several occasions when email addresses etc have changed.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Ah, but sometimes it *is* Mr Jeays, see. We could wait for that to happen, or we could just experiment, damn their lack of a rolling forward programme.

Try sending the message file to my ntlworld address and I'll see what I make of it tonight. You're a dear.

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

Congrats!