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View this email in your browser Hi,  You can help end hunting for good As you may know, there’s a general election on the way, and with it an opportunity to make the ban on fox and hare hunting fit for purpose and to protect wildlife from hunters. Labour have recently indicated that they would strengthen the Hunting Act. But it’s far from a done deal, and the pro-hunting lobby are turning up the smokescreen in an attempt to salvage their cruel pastime.   That’s why we’re asking YOU to contact the candidates who will stand to be the next MP in your constituency, to tell them the desperate need for strengthening the Hunting Act. Please copy and paste the template email below, adding in any local incidents, news stories and personal experience to help support your arguments, and send this to your local candidates. We’re particularly interested in reaching Labour candidates as they are most likely to form the next Government, but depending on where you are you may wish to contact the Lib Dem and Plaid Cymru candidates as well. Find your local Labour candidate >> Find your local Lib Dem candidate >> Find your Plaid Cymru candidate >> By taking action together, we can end hunting for good. Thank you, Hunt Saboteurs Association For more information on the Hunt Saboteurs Association’s campaign for a real ban on hunting, visit our campaign webpage here Template email Dear Name, The Hunting Act 2004 is an extremely popular piece of legislation, enjoying the support of more than 80% of the public. But it isn’t working as intended. Police chiefs know it, the hunters know it, and the rural communities plagued by illegal hunting know it. Nearly 20 years after hunting was supposedly banned, up and down the country hunts are exploiting loopholes in the law and continue to chase and kill foxes, hare and deer for fun. In a recent Channel 4 News exclusive which showed present day footage of hunts flouting the law and committing gross acts of animal cruelty, National Police Chiefs' Council Lead on Hunting Crime, Matt Longman said, "What we've got is a law that has a high level of ambiguity within it, and it is without doubt, at times being used by some as a smokescreen to allow them to continue hunting as they said they would 20 years ago. Everybody knows this." In a follow up piece, he went on to state that in order to work, “the Hunting Act is going to need reform, to close some of the loopholes that are continually being exploited.” That’s why I’m writing to you today to ask that if re/elected, you publicly commit to support the strengthening of the Hunting Act, to close the loopholes and to make sure that the law will finally protect British wildlife from the cruelty of hunting with hounds as originally intended. I look forward to your response. Yours sincerely, Name Return address Get involved! Find out how you can be part of our campaign to strengthen the Hunting Act Take Action Spread the word! Please share our news Share via email Copyright (C) 2024 Hunt Saboteurs Association. All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from Hunt Saboteurs Association. Our mailing address is: BM HSA, London, WC1N 3XX, U.K. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe