Two weeks ago, we reported how the Countryside Alliance desperately tried to cut ties with the Coniston Foxhounds after Lake District Hunt Sabs filmed them digging out and killing a fox.
Up until that moment, the Countryside Alliance was offering to donate £50.00 to the Coniston Foxhounds if anyone nominated them through their new membership scheme.
Last Friday, Cumbria Police announced that the dig-out was in fact a joint meet between the Coniston Foxhounds and the Powys-based Teme Valley Hunt and that four members of the Teme Valley had also been arrested as a result.
Still supporting the Teme Valley Hunt.
Fortunately, two of the HSA’s more aristocratic supporters – Dame Emma Royd and the Duchess Tess T Culls – have been keeping a close eye on the Countryside Alliance membership scheme and inform us that the CA only pulled their support on Wednesday – a full six days after the Cumbria Police announcement.
We thank both the Dame and the good Duchess for their input, but we are not surprised. As we have previously pointed out, the Countryside Alliance is still supporting the Axe Vale Harriers, who were filmed digging out a fox, the notorious Seavington Hunt who tipped a bagged fox in front of hounds, and the monsters at the Cotswold Foxhounds who buried a fox alive so she could be hunted later.
Of course, all this desperate scheme really does is highlight the hypocrisy at the heart of the Countryside Alliance. One minute their CEO, Tim Bonner, is telling hunts to behave themselves in the run-up to the consultation, the next minute they’re concocting a scheme to prop-up fox baggers, fox buriers and fox hunters across the country.
Everybody knows it’s far too little, far too late at the Countryside Alliance.
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