The Government is hailing its anti-fox-hunting legislation as a complete success after as few 320,000 thousand hunt enthusiasts met on Boxing Day as usual.
A Labour spokesman told us:
"We promised that we'd put an end to this barbaric practice on election and now we have. In previous years these people have met and chased foxes about the countryside before letting them be pulled limb from limb by a pack of hounds.
"Now these same people are reduced to meeting and chasing foxes about the countryside and then shooting the fox instead. Progress indeed!"
We put it to him that nothing has really changed and that the legislation is just in fact an unworkable sham.
He then looked a bit shifty and said:
"Ooops! Gotta dash there's my car now" and with that he jumped into a BMW Mini being driven by a young mum with her two kids in the back seat.
She certainly looked surprised and indeed terrified at the minister's actions as she drove off screaming hysterically.
The Spoof strongly suspects that the car was not actually a ministerial vehicle at all but perhaps the Minister knows how the fox feels now.
