The fallout from the General Election has been spectacular on the Left. Few, least of all the pollsters<\/a>, would have predicted that the Tories would be not merely back in Downing Street but also boast a genuine, if slender majority in the Commons.<\/p>\n Now the Left is bracing itself for all sorts of nasty behaviour. Already the home secretary Teresa May has announced she will be bringing back the Snooper’s Charter; lawyer’s favourite Chris Grayling is due to tear up the British constitution; and the hero of the educational profession Michael Gove will soon be abolishing human rights (or something like that \u2013 Ed).<\/p>\n All of which is mere preamble to the gravest travesty about to afflict perfidious Albion: the potential repealing of the Hunting Act. Such fears were prompted by recently returned prime minister David \u201cDVD Dave\u201d Cameron, who scribbled in the Countryside Alliance:<\/p>\n \u201cI have always been a strong supporter of country sports. It is my firm belief that people should have the freedom to hunt, so I share the frustration that many people feel about the Hunting Act and the way it was brought in by the last government.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Such a calamity has mustered the great and the good of the Left to that great modern forum of democracy Change.org, where a petition has been launched to prevent this calamity. As of the time of writing some 163,156 have signed it<\/a>, three times the amount a similar petition has garnered (admittedly, after only 24 hours) asking for a referendum before Gove sticks it the Human Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whataboutery of the worst kind? You betcha. Still, a petition calling for reform of the broken first-past-the-post voting system has nearly 200,000 signatures<\/a>, if you have your priorities in order.<\/p>\n