Ben Wallace, the belligerent and unloveable Conservative MP for Wyre and Preston North, has been all over the media this week after yet another attack on hunt sabs and monitors.
Writing in the increasingly hysterical Daily Telegraph, Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence until he resigned in August to 'invest in the parts of life' he claims to have neglected (which perhaps included a writing career supporting bloodsports), lays into the “sabs and self-appointed monitors" who he says "trespass, threaten, and thump across the land".
It's a startlingly poor piece of writing which editors presumably weren't given the chance to look at. If they had they might have anticipated that while the piece was supposed to highlight lawlessness in the UK - especially amongst activists - it would actually feed hundreds of social media posts happily picking out sentences like "we should all be worried about the policing [of hunts]", “wherever you find the hunts, you will find thuggery in tow”, and "the police stand by and regularly do nothing" and turn them against the very hunts the author appears to want to protect.
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