Overweening, odious offenders...

From today's Daily Telegraph: "Hunt saboteurs revealed in their true colours"
"It could have been a scene from a film set in a future in which law and order has broken down, and Britain is ravaged by marauding gangs."

How did this grotesque incident come about? The saboteurs had apparently been thwarted in their plan to disrupt a grouse shoot, so picked an easier target. But can these activists seriously expect that their campaign will lead to the banning of an activity in which about three million Britons take part?"

"Like the masked "animal rights" activists who terrorise scientists and their families, these thugs are sociopaths: not animal-lovers, but people-haters."...Well they may have bitten off more than they can chew this time because , unlike the class hatred that there undoubtably was with the ban on fox-hunting, this cuts across two 'untouchable' sections of society: Remember this...

Angling? It's too white and too middle-aged, say ministers as they go fishing for women and ethnic minorities.

"Angling does not discriminate against gender, race, age or athletic ability", and the "Government is interested in angling in the context of social inclusion in deprived urban areas".

Also, to confirm why the government are sure be taking this more seriously, from todays article:

The Government has no plans to ban this most unassuming and democratic of field sports, pursued by so many of its natural supporters: indeed, its social engineers are currently trying to thrust rods into the hands of women and ethnic minorities, spending the revenue from fishing licences on - among other things - teaching Muslim women to fish.

Lets see how quickly the police take a tougher line now.

S.O.