Well the government has now dropped their plan which would have seen each dog owner pay for the illegal activities of others, while those very same law-breakers would still get away with owning banned breeds of dog.

I for one am glad, because the last thing anyone needs in this economic climate is MORE expense due to other people being irresponsible!

Well, this time the mad priest has come out with something truly idiotic. As we all know, some little boys like to get big dogs to make themselves look tough. This big dog is trained (or not, as is often the case) to react to humans with an extremely violent temper. They walk these dogs around like they’re the kings of their little estate and treat them like weapons. A few of these animals have ended up killing or seriously injuring small kids when irresponsible owners leave the two together unattended. So the government’s answer? Tax everyone.

Yes, soon you will be forced to pay an insurance premium on your dog to cover yourself against ‘third party liability’. That means if your dog was to bite someone, the insurance policy would pay out to cover their costs and so on. Somewhere, somehow, this is meant to stop people getting banned breeds of dog and training them up into aggressive attack dogs.

Maybe the government missed a beat here. It isn’t that the victims of such attacks can’t get compensation. It isn’t that there should be more money pumped into the animal welfare system (well, it should, but that isn’t the point of this policy), it is that little chavs are getting BANNED BREEDS OF DOG. Maybe they should look at where these animals come from, and how to stop that trade. And do you really think for one second that the kind of idiot who partakes in this activity is going to suddenly decide to respect the law by taking out an insurance policy? That is, if they could even be covered on an illegal animal…

This time the government has fired so wide of the mark it is untrue. What they have come up with, again, is something to punish the innocent while the guilty get off scot free.

How long before they find a way to put a tax on hamsters…