Animals in circuses: If you're going to rebel, find a better cause | Catherine Bennett

Yes, the welfare of circus animals is a concern, but not more important, for example, that the elderly in nursing homes

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, Chapter 10, "Crisis Management". In which our hero is once again accused. "The issue of fox hunting has led to regret largest national legislative measures," wrote Tony Blair. "I used to have meetings with my advisers or whips and sit there and say, but people can not feel that strongly about it, is impossible. "His whips were right: people have done. In his memoirs, Chris Mullin is pleased to recall the well-being of Fox as" easily The most popular subject "manifesto at a meeting of the year 2001, the parliamentary group, ahead of Railtrack student loans, and opposition to missile defense.

"The passions aroused by the subject were primitive," says Blair. Gerald Kaufman, for example, said: "If you do this, I could never support the new government." Fortunately, Mr. Kaufman was reassured enough about the issue of the cruelty of Fox to go support the war in Iraq. Last week, fell to a Tory Pritchard, Mark, to assume the mantle of Kaufman and, incidentally, prove to Cameron that Chapter 10 of the

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I certainly would not have been omitted. If I had paid attention, he would have known, of any backbench revolt of the future, the challenge was to see one with an elephant, the name of Anne

Perhaps, however, can not damage the parts of Cameron, despite his leadership, which now commands the respect of all animal rights fanatics in the country. Virtually all participants in the debate last week's testimony - that if anyone doubts - the prodigious number of letters from constituents who have received on this issue. While Pritchard has not been required of the government is responding to "the people's will"?

In Pritchard, the Conservatives have certainly found their own Rosa Parks, a seamstress, not a sweet, no doubt, but the next best thing: in his words, "a boy of the Board of a very poor environment. " Expect in the coming years, the anniversary Pritchard, when the children recreate the time the boy humble animal lover in the House of Commons to declare: "This fund gives me a spine, gives me a thick skin and I will not kowtow to fry on a subject fascinates me. "

This is, of course, the fate of 39 captive wild animals in circuses in Britain today. This number is low - compared, for example, the number of hens in battery now (16 million) - was carried out, depending on which side they were, to be a decisive argument for the prohibition or the heretics speak a sufficient evidence that there are more questions that need parliamentary time. However, since the debate was about the primitive feelings, or as he prefers to Pritchard, "passion" or as the cynics would say 18 century, smoothing, narcissistic display of feeling, the number did not matter.

During this debate very harmonious, competition in the extreme manifestations of compassion, we were introduced to individual animals - not just Anne the circus elephant, but his fellow survivors Colonel Bob Stewart, and the donkey, the Barbary macaque.

• As a survivor of a boarding school, David Cameron, the donkey was taken from one side of his mother at a tragically young age and ended up performing in public for money. Now residing in the district of Cornwall Sheryll Murray (Con), the primacy begins to recover damaged by years of deprivation. "Honourable members are down our way during the holidays," said Ms. Murray. "They should come and see the sanctuary, for all friends and would like to see his ass."

But that donkeys like to see replace him in the big tent? A dog will do? A horse? How, as Ed Miliband, often one wonders, why replace a talented primate? He was in front of him, the terror of circuses Avenger (from Cameron's love of hunting), which explains the preference for government clearance for wildlife, rather than a ban. Shot of the EU, in retaliation, the circus, the preferences appear to be an area of ??national self-determination, Members have stressed that human actions are exciting enough to satisfy the most demanding none (of them, probably after see the recent work of Cirque du Soleil).

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Pritchard is right, and his long-awaited law will not be obstructed by animal trainers of Austria claimed the human right to torture elephants, circus animals could represent 39 at least 39 job opportunities for candidates beautiful human, eager to find a warm cage, perhaps with a little hay in the background, before colder weather sets in.

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