Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims 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.”
(I cant find an emoji to accurately illustrate my reactions to such insane nonsensical bs)
The former Labour minister Mike Foster said the group had lost the plot. He wrote on X: “‘Show me an example of people who have lost the plot,’ the hunt lobby never fail to disappoint.”
They’re a minority, and apparently one that doesn’t understand what the word “ethnic” does in front of it.
Swales also has a great little bit there about how hunting is actually performing a service because it only eliminates the animals that are old, toothless, have “the disease”, or can’t outrun the dogs. Somehow one of those feels less like a natural condition than the others to me, but hey.
Obviously those are BS terms and would not really hold up in court. If they did that would open up a lot of wiggle room for some serious shenanigans with other services and sites, absolving responsibility for unrelated things.
A judge ordered a 15-year-old student on a field trip to his courtroom to be handcuffed and forced to change into an inmate jumpsuit because she dozed off.
The audacity of a working, un-housed student not being able to stay awake when the important man is talking. /s
