VIDEO: the EU should stop encouraging animal torture

Today I asked a question in Parliament (see the video above) urging the UK Government to stand up to the bureaucrats in Brussels, and keep long-standing British protections for stray cats and dogs.

As outrageous as it may seem, an obscure EU directive is actually encouraging animal torture, by trying to scrap these protections - even though a stray cat or dog could just be a lost family pet, who has gone missing. The scandal was brought to my attention by Harlow constituent Louise Jackson, on twitter - during the recent England football match.

I have already contacted Ministers about this formally, on her behalf, but was pleased to receive assurances today in the House of Commons from Cabinet Minister Sir George Young that Britain won't stand for any of this EU nonsense. This kind of thing has no place in a civilised society.

by Robert Halfon MP - Working Hard for Harlow.