A pro-fox hunter has claimed that opposing hunting is racism, leaving people bemused.
Previous attempts
Back in August 2024, a pro-foxhunting group prepared a legal case to try to prove that hunters are an ethnic minority whose hunts should be protected under equality laws.
Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claimed he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010.
Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”
He said he had spent three years preparing a legal challenge that had now been reviewed by a human rights KC “who sits on the council of the European court of human rights”.
Swales said: “The outcome of that from the human rights silk is that as a protected minority group under the Equality Act, we qualify, undoubtedly 10 out of 10.”
Racist
Now, a new clip shows a fox hunter with even more extreme views. He believes that countryside folk are a race and opposing fox hunting is racism. But he doesn’t want to explain it.
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