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@CA_TimB

Countryside Alliance Chief Executive also fish, ducks, cricket, wife (singular), children (multiple) tim-bonner(at)

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Joined June 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 Sep 2018

    Great quote about the hunting ban: ”As an animal welfare issue, foxhunting comes in at about number 155. But as a class issue, it ranks behind private schooling at number two. This isn't about animal welfare”. Good to have something to agree with about

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  2. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    The Flying Monk Brewery, which is based in the Beaufort country, wanted to mark Captain Ian Farquhar’s retirement from the mastership of the Beaufort Hunt after 34 yrs so have produced a beer called The Old Captain. Who other to pull the first pint than the Captain himself!

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    This is the problem for and everyone involved in BBC impartiality. Each one of Packham's PR stunts is instantly and inextricably linked to the BBC and Springwatch, it is mad that the Beeb continue to deny it.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Gove’s speech points to challenging year ahead ➡️

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  5. Jan 4

    Yeah, because I’m soooo out on a limb opposing compulsory veganism

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  6. Jan 4

    I don’t get the outcry about vegan sausage rolls. Granted it’s a stupid name for a meat free product, but the idea that anyone should be restricting food choice is just silly & the exact reason that many meat eaters find vegan extremism so offensive

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  7. Jan 4

    Previously looked at those ‘creative’ statistics on the number of vegans in this thread

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  8. Jan 4

    Worth remembering that even if you take ’s dubious claim of 542k vegans in the UK there are still considerably more gun owners & that figure is a real one

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 4
    Replying to and

    Pah that’s old school. Everything must be a project, a scheme or rewilding with outputs, targets and goals that can be measured and accounted for. Look at the £Ms that have spent on conservation projects and marvel at the successes. Just doing things won’t work, I tell you!

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Applications for the first three retreats of #2019 open tomorrow – 4 January! 🎉 Find out more and apply (from tomorrow) here...

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  11. Jan 2

    The film of Swallows & Amazons, the best children’s book ever written. So, so much better than the dreadful ‘spies and guns’ 2016 travesty

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  12. Jan 2

    And to finish here’s the result of the Hunting Act. Pointless, prejudiced, divisive & utterly predictable 15/

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  13. Jan 2

    That’s an anti-hunt theme which as ever has nothing to do with animal welfare. And back to the beginning the crowds on Boxing Day, like the 400k who marched, know that there is nothing wrong with hunting & see the ban as the thin end of a bigoted wedge 14/

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  14. Jan 2

    The rest of the ‘field’ taking part in the recreational part of the hunt would rarely have a clue what was going on & if they got their kicks from seeing animals being killed they were entirely in the wrong place. They had no weird obsession with what happens to a dead fox 13/

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  15. Jan 2

    And as for the myth of bloodthirsty fox hunters it is just that. A huntsman & his staff would have been satisfied with a job well done when hounds caught their fox confident that they were carrying out humane management which benefited the species 12/

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  16. Jan 2

    The Hunting Act was simply an act of prejudice, & even that was massively misplaced as it assumed the stereotype of the aristocratic fox hunter & completely ignored the farmer’s cooperative pest control hunts 11/

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  17. Jan 2

    There is not a single fox hunter who accepts for a moment that the ban had anything to do with fox welfare or population. The Gov inquiry found death by hounds was “almost instantaneous”, more foxes are being killed by methods that have no welfare or management advantage 10/

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  18. Jan 2

    And catch him or not the fox hunter has huge respective his quarry. Most importantly whether it is the hunter of the shires who is certain that the fox was better of for hunting, or the farmers of the West who just want to control them, or the many hunts that fall in between 9/

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  19. Jan 2

    The fox also benefitted from its status. What the blind anti-hunt movement cannot grasp is no-one loves a fox more than a fox hunter. Shooting foxes in a hunt country was considered an absolute sin. Hunts would go to great lengths to protect foxes during the breeding season 8/

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  20. Jan 2

    Nearly every covert & furze in Leics & throughout the shires was planted for the purpose of hunting. Hunts created the habitat that sustained a healthy population of foxes at a level that was acceptable to farmers and in doing so ensured an adequate supply of quarry /7

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  21. Jan 2

    The enclosed shires of the English lowlands, however, were very short of foxes. One answer was to ‘import’ them and there was a busy trade in foxes from as far afield as Ireland to Leics in particular. Over time though a more sustainable & ethical solution was developed 6/

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