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For years, animal rights groups and anti-hunting activists have targeted businesses perceived to be in any way offering their services to country sports. Whether that’s a pub or even a conference centre, the hostilities driven by animal rights activists continues to have a negative impact on many small businesses
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As countryfolk know all too well, the main aims of hunt sabs is not the saving of foxes, but to cause rampant damage and destruction in the countryside and to hurt the rural economy. This has been illustrated to a gross degree after anti-hunt vandals attacked a farm near Chipping
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Dan Norris MP, the former chair of anti-hunt charity the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) who was arrested in April on suspicion of rape, child sex offences, child abduction and misconduct in a public office, has continued to vote via proxy in Parliament, despite being banned from the Parliamentary Estate.
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Last month a new anti-hunting lobby group popped up calling itself the ‘The New Hunting Ban’. The group boasted a slick website, swanky London offices, a crack team of advisors, and a “Parliamentary Committee” made up of five backbench Labour MPs. Pretty impressive. Well, not really. Scratch beneath the surface
West Yorkshire
Leeds, West Yorkshire · Sheffield Hunt Sabs
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The trials and tribulations of plaguing the internal workings of animal charity League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) continues, after the organisation was forced to pay £30,000 to its former chief executive for breach of departure agreement. Andy Knott led LACS from January 2018 until March of last year. He
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Hunt sabs have often been described by the rural communities they harass as ‘countryside terrorists’. Now the Hunt Saboteur Association (HSA) has come out in full support of an actual ‘terrorist’ group, Palestine Action. A post by the Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs, reposted by the HSA, criticises the government’s plans
Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs
Derbyshire · Sheffield Hunt Sabs
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According to disgruntled sab insiders, members of the notorious North London Hunt Saboteurs (NLHS) are apparently organising themselves for a takeover of the leadership of the Hunt Saboteur Organisation (HSA). HSA is run by 12 individuals who are elected each year by the group’s members. But it seems NLHS
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A new anti-hunt pressure group has sprung up, seemingly out of nowhere, calling itself The New Hunting Ban. A quick browse of its website gives the impression of a slick and well put-together lobby group with a “Parliamentary Committee” of four backbench Labour MPs. However, an investigation by BTM has
Northen Ireland
Armagh, Northern Ireland · South Ulster Hunt Sabs; Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Ireland
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It has become increasingly clear that many sabs, driven by their apparent love of animals, relish any opportunity for airtime on television. We need only look as far as Lesley Martin, John Harwood, or even sab sympathiser Caroline Hutt. Most recently Simon Wild, a long-time associate of the West Sussex