Here's a great vote-winner. Let's force everyone in the country to have their dog microchipped and force the owners to take out compulsory insurance. That'll be £30 for the first service and £200-£300 per year for the second.   Kerchingg......next please!

That will play well on the doorsteps this spring to the pensioner who has his two Jack Russells for company since his wife died.....

Here is a supreme example of the sort of thing to which I adverted but yesterday. This is Fascist Labour in full control mode. Let's think up yet another way to sting the ordinary law-abiding people of the United Kingdom out of some more of their hard-earned money. And while we are at it let us employ, at Taxpayer's expense, a vast army of Dog Wardens and the like to enforce this singularly bad proposal. Let's invent a few more new crimes while we are at it. And let us give ourselves the right to interfere yet again with the Citizen's right to quiet enjoyment of his or her private property.

As The Times tells us:

According to the report from Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, and Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, police or council wardens would have powers to issue these orders, similar to fixed-penalty notices. They may require a dog to be fenced in, neutered, muzzled or kept on a lead, and for an owner to attend a dog handling course. Any breaches could lead to prosecution, a fine, or even prison if animal cruelty were involved. The worst owners would be banned for life from keeping a dog and unruly animals would be destroyed.

What a singularly nasty lot Labour are. And stupid too. Quite apart from the electoral disaster this will be, do they really think that the Wastrel with the Pit Bull on the Sink Estate is going to have his dog microchipped and insured?

Oh please.........

As usual this will hit the decent law-abiding dog-owning citizen with a couple of dogs (that have never so much as nibbled their owner's ear) hard in the pocket and render them subject to the peremptory demand from some little Jumped Up Jackbooted Jobsworth:

"Hunde ausweis!"*

*"Please would you be so kind as to show me your dog licence, your dog's microchip details and the dog's insurance: If not, I shall have to nick you and take you down the station where we will take your fingerprints and your DNA and give you a very hard time. Have a nice day!"


John Locke


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