I had meant to post again but had to attend to screaming twin babies.
I don't agree with fox hunting because I don't see how you can call ripping another animal to pieces sport. It's not a class thing, it just that in the 21st century where people are questioning the morality of issues like war that something as antiquated as fox-hunting is still continuing.
As for the employment issue, well I'm certain that many of the hunt supporters berated the miners when they protested the closure of collieries and clashed with the police. Whole mining communities were destroyed and they were told by Norman Tebbit to get on their bikes to find new work. Well, if the hunt brigade don't have trust funds to fall back on, they can always use their connections from private school to get a job in the city or failing that, trade in their 4x4 for a mini-cab!
For the not so well heeled folk, they can always retrain. That is a fact of life. Jobs for life are a thing of the past and I'm damn sure that a lot of the hunt brigade voted for the politicians in the 1980s that promoted the me society and everyman for himself mentality. What goes round......