Protecting Animals in Democracy

http://www.vote4animals.org.uk/manifesto.htm

I have signed up to PAD's manifesto as a parliamentary candidate, unlike my Labour opponent, Kate Hoey MP, who is the Chair of the Countryside Alliance, whose HQ is based in Vauxhall, and who is committed to the return of fox hunting and other barbaric practices, at least that is what she wrote in an article for the Yorkshire Post over the Xmas break. Kate and I agree on a number of issues, and it is interesting that at the housing hustings last Saturday she clearly distanced herself from the Labour Party in Lambeth and denounced many of their decisions regarding housing. When asked who the electors of Lambeth should vote for on May 6th in the council elections, she replied: "for the best candidates."

The increasing number of stories in the South London Press and elsewhere of appalling cruelty meted out to animals, which has reached national headlines in the recent stories about dogs being used as weapons etc, flags up the appallling way that animals are regarded by many in this country. I have a cat myself, previously having had three, and am very attached to animals and animal rights. It goes without saying that those who practice such terrible cruelty on animals are likely to apply it to fellow humans also.