The 2019 Torrington Farmers Hunt Boxing Day meet in the centre of Great Torrington was a remarkable event for one key reason. The TFH had actually submitted details of their event and they even applied to Devon County Highways for road closure. Remarkable! Previously they have never formally applied for road closure and have never at any time in the…
The Cottesmore Hunt are a notorious organised criminal gang who routinely engage in illegal fox-hunting, aided by a number of knuckle-dragging, violent supporters who have openly admitted that the Cottesmore Hunt ignores the ban on fox-hunting. One of these supporters (Marc Birney) has recently attempted to discourage Northants Hunt Saboteurs from mentioning his fellow, violent, hunt supporting fools Ollie Barton…
Fox hunting in the UK is massively unpopular, as reflected in numerous polls. It is widely understood that Theresa May’s statement in 2017, that she was in favour of fox hunting, cost the Tory party valuable votes in the snap election that year. So why have a number of prominent Conservative ministers and MPs recently hosted fox hunt meets on…
Torrington Farmers Hunt Boxing Day 2018 – Street Drinkers Boxing Day meets are considered to be the most significant in the hunting season and viewed by hunt supporters as important traditional events. But increasingly, this view is being challenged by anti-hunt protesters, disgruntled local people and others who have become aware that hunts up and down the country flout…
The exceptionalism that is applied to people involved in Hunting, throughout the UK, is staggering. While regular members of public can expect to be pulled over, reprimanded and potentially fined for road traffic offences, such as driving without due care and attention or using a mobile device while at the wheel, people engaged in hunting are repeatedly getting away with…
On the 5th of January 2019 our illustrious attorney general, the right honourable Geoffrey Cox QC, was apparently involved in a meeting of the Lamerton Hunt at his property at Willestew near Lamerton. The Lamerton hunt have a dubious history. Back in 2014 huntsman David Lewis, joint master George Moyse, whipper-in Steve Craddock and terrier men Wayne Bartlett, Stephen Mitchell…
Andrew German, huntsman with the Cheshire Forest Hunt, has been extremely lucky, thanks to the Cheshire Police and CPS. Back in 2017 he escaped prosecution under the Hunting Act for having been responsible for killing a fox and most recently, in January 2019, he has escaped prosecution yet again, this time for violent assault as the Cheshire Constabulary say there…