Countryside Alliance's MP Campaign

Gutless hunt fanatics assault and throw eggs and flour at Dan Norris MP

The return of the Hunting Bill caught the bloodsport fraternity totally by surprise. Whether this was down to their sheer arrogance, complacency or total incompetence is anyone guess. But needless to say the bloodsport fraternity leaders weren’t going to blame themselves for their failings, after all they are very well paid, so they are targetting MPs.

Their new campaign involves a mob of pro-hunt supporters turning up to 'speak' to MPs and ministers often without warning to the MP or the police. What they hope to achieve by bullying and intimidation of MPs is anyones guess.

Anti-hunt campaigners cannot believe their luck, the campaign has done nothing but harm to the pro-hunt campaign and has backfired, hardening the resolve of Labour MPs and alienating ordinary voters. Even the media hasn't been able to ignore the threats MPs face and the public, perhaps for the first time, are seeing the reality of some hunting folk.

In September 2004 the Independent reported that the increasingly militant action against elected MPs was being orchestrated from the very top of the Countryside Alliance. Alliance officials say the 'protests' are being co-ordinated by 13 regional officers, such as Alison Hawes, 39, a full time CA official in the South-west, who organised the rally in Exeter, Adrian Simpson in Wales, and Clare Rowson in the West Midlands.