Hunting and Racism

After the Hunting Bill was given Royal Ascent the extreme right-wing British National Party (BNP) announced that: "BNP supporters were devastated by the news earlier this week that the New Labour regime had banned the age-old tradition of fox-hunting. The legislation will stop a sport which has an important role to play in the maintaneance of Britain's unique landscape and rural economy."

The everyday language of many hunt publications is often composed of barely disguished racism and homophobia.

The BNP clearly believe that many hunt supporters might be favourable to their right-wing views and use many of the same keywords (e.g. 'Freedom', 'Tradition', and 'Liberty') used by the Countryside Alliance to advance their cause. (See BNP at Countryside Alliance demo)

Some famous and non-famous hunt supporters have found themselves in hot water over racism.

A bookmaker was fined after he admitted yelling racist abuse at a Countryside Alliance march in 2002. Peter Smith of Chelvey Batch, near Backwell, who works in his family's bookmaking business, was fined £500 and ordered to pay £55 costs at Bow Street magistrates. He was voicing his support for the Countryside Alliance during the march at Whitehall when he clashed with Mr Khan. Mr Khan was demonstrating against hunting and was waving a banner when Smith went up to him and tapped him on the head with a plastic hunting horn before hurling racist abuse. Smith admitted a charge of using racial abuse.

On the 13th January 2005, foxhunting Prince Harry appeared on the front page of The Sun wearing a German desert uniform and a swastika armband. More than six million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis.

Pro-hunt MP Ann Winterton was recently sacked from the Parliamentary Conservative Party after publicly joking about the deaths of the Chinese cocklers who drowned at Morecambe Bay and refusing to apologise. It was the second time that Mrs Winterton, 62, has found herself in trouble over racist remarks. Mrs Winterton was joint master of the South Staffordshire Hunt, and served for five seasons as their field master as well as belonging to the Masters of Foxhounds Association. She still occasionally goes out with the Forest and District Beagles in Cheshire.

Police rescue Gerald Kaufman MP from pro-hunt mob who was assaulted and racially abused him

Anti-hunt MP Gerald Kaufman was physically assaulted and racially abused by a mob of Countryside Alliance supporters at the Labour Party conference in Brighton in September 2004. In keeping with the biased media coverage this incident wasn't reported in many papers whilst Teletext simply reporting that he had been "jostled."

The hunting fraternity leaders make little effort to disassociate themselves from extreme right wing views racist and homophobic views, knowing how much it would upset their members. Racist and homophobic comments can be easily found on any hunting forum including Horse and Hound's and especially forums used by terriermen. The owner of one such forum even named his dog 'Nigger'.

An example of a recent forum post:

"I would not want to be in the same party as AW [Ann Widecombe]. Principally I see her vociferous support for a ban on fox hunting as a betrayal of our cultural heritage. [...] I would compromise on the hunt if we could replace foxes with asylum seekers. Do you think Ann W would agree?"

"MP's nominally representing Labour's hardcore city voters; Reds, "queers" , Blacks and social-security dependents will swing in favour of the destruction of the English countryside and its traditions."

"Exactly, the real reason is because fox hunting is an English tradition it must be banned so that we can all become Marxist student union members."

"Ideally I'd like to see us go back ti hunting wild boar with spears, but it will be a while before the BNP gets that arranged."

"At the next Hunt meet (The Oakley Hunt) I will drink a stirrup-cup and shall celebrate the glory of one of England's best country traditions. All there whether peasant or patron are white nationalists to a man (or woman) and unlike the knuckle-dragging image that some urbanites choose to present ; Hunting and national patriotism are entirely complementary."

"I think we will see huge scale civil disobedience in Britain one day. I hope it happens in my lifetime. And I believe it is the only way to stop ZOG from erasing our way of life. There are millions of people who don't see taking drugs and dancing to disco music as recreation. The way things are going that will be the only option."

"I hate the fox for what it does to other wildlife."

"Hunting is deeply embedded in the folk lore and traditions of our country. It is natural. And it is participated in by far more people than red-coated aristocrats. Go to Wales and look at the people who populate the hunts there. And then look at the scumbag protesters and ask yourselves, whose side should we be on? As advocates of blood and soil, we should support the rights of those people who still work the land to determine their own lives. Those who seek to ban it are largely urban, anthropomorphising freaks. In the future, as our cities descend beneath the ethnic waves, it is n the country that we will be building our barricades."

"It is all an integral part of the Politically Correct war on the institutions of the white race, so another unique, hundreds of years old, national tradition like Chistmas, Guy Fawkes , and countless others, will bite the dust, to make it easier for them to impose the Jewish new world order."

"It's not a problem. If fox hunting's banned there's plenty of other vermin to be quarry, Pakis, blacks, wiggers, peados....the list goes on."