Sir,

I was delighted to read in last Friday’s Tenby Observer that Clr. Huw George, of Pembrokeshire County Council, has spoken out against the House of Commons Environment Committee who would like to strip the RSPCA of its powers to prosecute animal welfare cases.

I wonder is he, along with your readers, aware that this all started when our very own local MP, Simon Hart (also a member of this House of Commons Commitee and Chairman of the Countryside Alliance) became the first to come up with this idea when the RSPCA successfully prosecuted the Heythrop Hunt for illegal fox-hunting when the Crown Prosecution Service was unwilling to do so.

Nine out of 10 members of the public back the charity’s prosecutions’ policy and the idea is not supported by the Government, vets, other major animal welfare charities and local authorities, and flies in the face of the majority of evidence put before the committee.

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