EXTRACT FROM ‘MEDDLING’ LETTER

There are a number of former hunt saboteurs and passionate opponents of hunting who have, through intimate association with the whole issue, come to the conclusion that the welfare of the actual fox is best ensured by a continuation of hunting, albeit with some changes to the way it’s currently organised and regulated. Such people have realised that their fellow opponents are chiefly driven by agendas other than the welfare of the fox – namely their antipathy to the type of person who they think goes out hunting.

There is also complete bewilderment that the Government is apparently responding to calls to ban something which is genuinely environmentally friendly, which uses no modern technology, which does not pollute the countryside, which is completely natural – in that it relies entirely on man’s ancient and, indeed, romantic relationship with dogs and horses...