Bill to ban wild animal circus acts in Britain blocked again!
Romford MP claims Government involvement
Efforts to finally ban the use of wild animals in circuses have been hampered by Conservative MP Philip Davies who has blocked the Wild Animals in Circuses Bill introduced by Jim Fitzpatrick MP at its Second Reading today.
The Bill was previously blocked, twice, by Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rosindell, who was previously connected with the now defunct Great British Circus, and appears to still have close ties with the industry. On Wednesday, animal trainer Rona Brown told a Parliamentary committee in Catalonia that an MP “said ‘No’” to the Bill in Parliament last week and “the same thing will happen” this week.
Mr Rosindell claimed earlier this week he was “asked” by Government to block the Bill and has since stated that his actions were “supported” by Government. However, the Government yesterday reiterated its support for a ban, with William Hague stating “we want to legislate on this matter”, in response to questions over “contrived” dealings by Jim Fitzpatrick MP.
It remains to be seen whether the Government is indeed sabotaging its own efforts to prohibit wild animal circus acts but, if so, it must answer to the public and parliament.
The Bill put forward by Mr Fitzpatrick has the same wording as the Government’s own draft legislation, published last April, and seeks to secure the ban promised by Government in 2012 ahead of the General Election, to ensure that the proposed implementation date of December 2015 is met. It will be put forward again for a second reading on 7th November.
Despite having a reputation as being a leader in animal welfare, Britain is lagging behind 28 countries worldwide that have introduced prohibitions on animal circus acts. Ironically, in the draft legislation, Defra Minister Lord de Mauley states that the British ban will “help ensure that our international reputation as a leading protector of animals continues into a new global era”!
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please stop wild animals in circuses do the right thing this as gone on long enough
Boycott and ban animal circuses everywhere!!
Get on with it
Please stop this cruelty. Would you like to live in a cage for the rest of your life. Or your family. To be bullied or tortured.
SHAME SHAME ON THE IDIOT BLOCKING THIS BILL. HE MUST LOVE CIRCUSES AND THE ABUSE THAT COMES WITH IT.
This Government should be ashamed of itself living in the dark ages. We actually live in a democracy and cannot see how any compassionate human being could say no to this Bill!!!!!!!!!!
Please stop the use of animals in the circus. So much cruelty is inflicted upon them to perform. Animals have a soul like we do. Can you imagine their fear and pain all so some may be entertained? We are ALL GOD’S creatures. PLEASE
End this now
Ridiculous and baffling that this is still legal!
Ban animal circuses and animal abuse.
Mr Cameron, keep your word! Please. So many voiceless creatures rely on you to be strong for them. Stand up! Listen to your nation. You are meant to be there to represent us! When will you?
This is most disappointing and heartless.Its about time the government took action on this as people DO NOT want to see animals in circuses any more.Time to get with the times.
Ban the use of wild animals in circus’s it cruel snd outdated. I’d never go to watch a circus with wild animals in, its degrading snd they treat the animals disgustingly behind the scenes. STOP THIS NOW!!!
Take yout blinkers off and check whats happening to these beautiful creatures at the hands of some humans.
Parliament is allowing this jerk, Mr Rosindell to hijack the will of hundreds of thousands of people?? Show some courage and ban this practice from the dark ages. Mr. Rosindell’s and/or his financial interests should not be relevant when it comes to animal suffering.
Unbelieveable what on earth is the problem just another reason to get rid of this government NO ANIMALS NO PLANET
Please ureplease please STOP ANIMALS BEING USED IN EVERY CIRCUS IN ENGLAND. Other countries have done so, please let the world know IN ENGLAND WE LOVE ALL ANIMALS and hate abuse of animals
Disgraceful! Petition signed.
Not acceptable
Please ban the use of wild animals at circuses in the UK, this is the 21st century. The facts about how animals suffer are well known why are we lagging behind 28 other countries? there is no excuse. Pass the Bill!!
SHAME ON BLOCKING THIS BILL !
CIRCUSES=ABUSE!
Me daría mucha verguenza, en esta época, que me señalaran por simpatizar con el maltrato de los animales en los circos..para empezar los circos con animales deben prohibirse, es antinatural que vivan en jaulas diminutas, que coman lo que no deben y sobre todo los golpes y maltrato a los que son sometidos..la gente que está con ellos disfruta pegándoles…No me parece moral que se permita este trato, además sabiéndolo, dice muy poco a su favor y además en esta vida todo se paga.
Please give circus animals their right to live a free and happy life! I support a ban on all circus animals!
I’m ashamed to live in the same constituency as Rosindell if he’s played a part in blocking this bill. He always claims to be an animal lover….I don’t understand his agenda!!
It’s time to ban these circuses. It’s taken too long,it’s inhumane, are we ?
Get going and stop this animal abuse !
Please get going and stop the abuse of animals in the circus!
It’s appalling we who are known as a nation of “animal lovers” cannot ban animals from circuses , there’s no excuse and we are lagging behind
Keep the fight
No more than one would expect from our corrupt government. Money talks eh?
They are horrid places and need to be banned as soon as possible!! Ban them now!! Stop the violence!!
Please Mr Prime Minister, help the ones who can not speak for them selves.
Circus is a manege of Horror. Animals dont belong in the circus for our entertainment. Enough is enough. Stop this suffering
cruelty to animals
I am discussed that this type of thing is still allowed. Everyone has the right to live a decent life. This includes these lovely animals that have feelings like ourseles. They have a right to run free which is there true purpose in life. These lovely creatures that god has made should be loved and respected and not treated in this appalling manner. No-one wants to see animals in circuses anyway and I hope they all manage to free themselves and trample them all to death. The only animal here is him.
No animal should ever be used for human entertainment! Stop this cruelty at once!
How an this be? How can ANYONE vote to keep wild animals imprisoned in small cages all their lives, then beaten and tortured in front of audiences? Are you out of your minds or just blindly insensitive?
Stop animals cruellety
This should be band now! it’s so far behind the times to keep these animals in cages! they have rights too and a life.
It’s time 2 move in2 the 21st century & leave the barbarian age behind, simple as that!
Please ban this awful cruelty to these wonderful animals, they don’t deserve to be treated like this.
It is beyond my belief that the UK government are making very little or no progress in bringing about a much needed and long over due ban on animals in circuses.
Their constant inaction on this issue is only serving to increase the suffering of the poor animals who are already having to endure FAR more than they ever should have had to suffer.
FOR GOD SAKE UK GOVERNMENT STOP DRAGGING YOUR FEET, PULL YOUR FINGERS OUT AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE. TIME AFTER TIME YOU SAY YOU ARE COMMITTED TO BRINGING ABOUT A BAN, WELL ITS TIME TO STOP JUST SITTING ON THE POT, AND ACTUALLY START PISSING !!!
BAN ANIMALS IN CIRCUSES NOW !!!!!
I know it’s great seeing these animals but it’s very unfair on them having to do tricks, etc and not always treated well!
Beyond cruel stop and ban it pls vry cruel to these majestic animals
Please stop the unnecessary animal suffering.
For once listen to the people and do what’s right ! Ban animals in circus !
Iam very surprise to hear this so sad about Britain. I always thought that Britain was ahead of other countries.
Ban world wide x
Its time to stop the Dark Ages of Barbaric Acts. Abusing Animals for Entertainment should’ve stopped decades ago. It is sadistic and cruel to do to any Being that is capable of thinking. STOP THE CRUELTY
Please help all circus animals let’s end this cruelty now.
There is no reason whatsoever to continue to support wild animals being abused in circuses. This must be stopped along with the greased palms within the ranks of our government. Hear what the public is saying
STOP CIRCUS SUFFRING
Captivity Kills.. Circuses Marine Parks need to be shut down.. Wildlife animals do not belong in these places but in their natural habitats .. Their not here for our entertainment !!
Please just do it!!! There are animals suffering in terrible conditions and cruelly treated. We are falling behind, so many other countries have banned animals in circuses, please stop doing “U” turns and sign the bill.
Animals suffering in circuses is no fun
ALL suffering should end!! Let them go to a Sanctury!
Ban Circus Animals.
Come on Mr Cameron time you put a stop to this terrible animal cruelty
animals belong in the wild not in a circus
Time to evolve!
I smell foul play.Who the hell do these individuals think they are.This whole affair stinks
WHAT HAPPEN WITH ENGLAND THE GOVERN THINK THIS IS A JOKE???
THE ANIMALS ARE OFFERING EVERY DAY
AND YOU BAN THE BILL.COME ON,THIS IS NOT A GAME.
Please stop this cruelty. These animals have a right to live and not be tortured!
This should be stopped now. In this day and age there should be no wild animals in a circus. They are badly used to learn tricks so it should be stopped now.
Wild Animals have the right to be free. They do not belong in circus acts its dangerous and its cruel. No excuse for a rep of the people to vote against what the people want. His pockets are full of blood money
Stop the cruelty
Its pathetic that it keeps getting blocked. Sometimes it can feel difficult to stand up and do the right thing, but its better than sitting back and being behind on the times. Animals dont belong in the circus. Ban it already!!
Leave the Wild in the Wild!
It’s 2014, this disgusting abuse of animals must stop, it’s well overdue
It is all about stupid money, they dont care about the cruel acts that the circus is doing to these animals, as far as living in the dark ages they sure are, Circus people dont have half a brain and from what i gather neither does the government
We are supposed to be an animal loving country but some of our members of parliament certainly are not. Come on you are getting us a bad name when most of the other countries have stopped using animals in circuses. Please get it together.
stop
stop the exploit of wild animals!!!
Sicking I hate circus if people just don’t go then
This would not be happening go got it will shut them down if no ones goes please don’t block this it not
Right to treat them this way they made to live in the wild
But this is all about money and selfishness and greed
please help our wildlife…being tortured as made to entertain is evil an inhumane…lets set an example for generations to come. we are not entitled o own life…its the slave trade of animals!
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I believe that there has been some controversy over this bill but after looking at the evidence on both sides I have come to the conclusion that I must support the ban on wild animals in circus much as the rest of the EU have done. I received a lovely letter from Andrew Rosindell who clearly believes that wild animals born into the circus are better off there than in a safari park for example and I can also understand the pain of separation that their trainers might undergo. I understand his sentiments but this has to be looked at from the animal’s point of view. A wild animal needs space, peace to carry out its normal activities insofar as it is able. It is not just about having a clean bed and human love although this is highly commendable on the part of the circus. The tradition needs to be halted. Wild animals, elephants in particular, do not learn without some fairly hefty forms of pain being used to make them perform. This needs to stop.
Enough already!
Barbaars !.
stop the suffering….wild animals must live in nature not in a cage!!!
Wild animals don’t belong in a circus, they belong in their natural habitat and deserve their freedom !!!! Don’t lock them up in cages !
This cruelty to animals must be stopped, it is not natural for these animals to be made to perform unnatural things and suffer such cruelty.
These animals deserve a good quality of life in their own natural habitat.
I don’t get how in the 21st century after even scientists proved that animals have emotions and feels stress that these concentration death camp are still on!!stop this massacre shame on the UK shame!!!!!!!!!!!!
trop right now!!!
Horrible creuelty
Stop à la cruauté
STOP THIS ABUSE OF THESE ANIMALS! STOP CIRCUS WHIT ANIMALS! STOP THESE IDIOTS!
I can’t believe this is still allowed!
It’s time the Conservatives stopped blocking this bill, stop asking your own MPs to sabotage it. It’s a disgrace that the UK is lagging behind here. We should be a shining example of compassion.
Please stop this
Stop circus !
Questo schifo deve finire !
Please ban wild animal circus.
this government is once again not representing the will of the people of whom the vast majority want the use of animals in circuses stoped .this is a barbaric practice and must be stopped.