Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 63 - November 1999Back to list of articles in this issue

Cuntryside Alliance On Tour

This year the tweedy army of inbred aristocrats and lackeys has visited several cities in the UK in a desperate attempt to convince people that their pastime is not barbaric and medievally cruel, but a necessary part of country life.

Opposition to the tour has been vigorous and brave. At the Labour Party Conference Countryside Alliance March 16,000 pro hunters marched, and 250 anti hunt protesters made a counter demonstration outside. A small group of protesters was followed after the march by hunt scum baying for blood. The activists went to ground in a pub, leaving some time later when the pack had got bored and gone home.

Several thousand hunt scum gathered in Newcastle with banners reading ‘Don’t make us start another civil war’. A group of activists achieved a banner drop from a multi storey car park above the marchers’ rallying point. Other protesters wore fox masks to face the hordes of hunt scum, whose most intellectual response was an act of indecent exposure.