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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1302283" data-attributes="member: 12449">Indeed there are cases of persecution in the UK too, cases that need to be highlighted and stopped. Read through this forum and you will find plenty of threads that condemn it. However, the sheer scale of persecution in Malta leaves the comparison between nations very one-sided. Nowhere in the UK will you find the routine shooting down of migrants, rare, common, protected or otherwise. Additionally, though there may be room for improvement, the general picture in the UK is of a society more acting to protect birds, not destroy them.I'm sorry, but Malta as a nation does need to be criticised. Illegal hunting is widespread, enforcement of E.U. law is scant and the country is a disgrace to Europe. I fully understand there are some very good hard-working persons trying to curb the hunting, but the nation as a whole needs to look at itself. It is not outsiders that are responsible for the appalling reputation that your country has, it is (a) the actual barbarians that are carrying out the slaughter and (b) the complicity of the government and society at large. If Malta doesn't want its image dragged forever through the dirt by, as you say, a minority, why doesn't the majority stand up and demand a change?</blockquote>