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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the RSPCA

26/1/2016

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Op-Ed: The RSPCA could lose its royal patronage unless that Charity turns a blind eye to hunting cruelty.

A source close to Prince Charles said he is concerned that the RSPCA has become ‘something else’ other than an animal welfare organisation. The Prince doesn’t stipulate what that ‘something else’ might be, but for those who know of his close associations with blood sports, it’s not hard to guess.

In 2012, the RSPCA brought a successful prosecution against Richard Sumner and Julian Barnfield, of the Heythrop Hunt. Each man pleaded guilty at Oxford magistrate’s court to four charges of unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs. The hunt, Heythrop Hunt Limited, also pleaded guilty to the same four charges of intentionally hunting a fox with dogs on land in the Cotswolds. The defendants prevaricated until almost the end of the trial before coming clean, with the result that the RSPCA was forced to rack up huge legal bills if they wanted to win their case.

None in the hunting set thought that breaking the law on hunting foxes would ever have returned a guilty verdict in court, and even the judge, who although he had no remit to do so, saw fit to criticise the amount of money spent on the prosecution.

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(He was however reprimanded for his imprudence at a later date). Unfortunately for Mr Barnfield et al, the evidence of blatant hunting was irrefutable, and they had no option but to ‘fess up, and Justice Tim Pattinson had no other option but to bring in a verdict of guilty.

He fined the Heythrop hunt and its members £6,800, but then he rounded on the RSPCA for spending £330,000 to bring the case.

“Members of the public may feel that RSPCA funds can be more usefully employed,” he told Oxford Magistrates' Court. Perhaps he’d not heard that the Spindles Farm prosecution, brought against farmer Grey for cruelty to his horses, cost three times that amount and the RSPCA was praised on that occasion for their professionalism and diligence. 

Obviously Prince Charles feels the same.

He wants the RSPCA to spend its time on other cruelties, the likes of which won’t affect his hunting chums. The police don’t seem to bother, and the CPS are not in a good place right now with funding cuts and no real experts to take on hunting cases.

If only the RSPCA would just concentrate on more working class sadisms, like lamping and dog fighting, fox hunters could then carry on Tally Ho Ho Ho-ing and hollering all over England’s green and pleasant land with no hindrance to their enjoyment.

The disembowelling of our precious wildlife for the sheer entertainment value of it all would go on as before with little fear of prosecution.

Of course the Countryside Alliance (CA) is cock a hoop with his Royal Huntness. That bastion of all that is wrong and bloody in the UK countryside thinks it’s a great idea for Charlie to threaten the RSPCA with dissociation from all things Royal.

The CA CEO, Tim Bonner, had this to say, "Anyone considering taking on the patronage of the RSPCA would have to consider its future direction and whether it is going to continue down a radical campaign path. If it reverts to its traditional role as a welfare charity protecting animals I am sure nobody could have any reason not to support its work."

In all honesty, would it be so bad if the RSPCA dropped the ‘R’? RSPCA supporters think not. In fact many people have been unhappy for some time that the bloodthirsty in the highest circles continue to support killing wild animals. 

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Prince Charles’ grandsons and his daughter in law, with attendant family, celebrated Kate Middleton’s thirty fourth birthday ‘low key’ blasting away at birds in the seclusion of a private estate.

Charles’ sister, the Princess Royal, was a one-time patron of the RSPCA until it was deemed unfit for someone so rabidly pro hunt to front a charity which was founded to promote kindness to animals. The upper echelons have tried for some time to get their bloodstained paws on the RSPCA. In 2001 the RSPCA expelled the Olympic showjumper Richard Meade for orchestrating a campaign to infiltrate the society and overturn its longstanding opposition to hunting.

Fortunately the RSPCA has resisted all efforts at take over and has stood firm on its policies against hunting. This ethical and moral stance has not been an easy ride. The Charity’s last CEO was bullied mercilessly for daring to take the rich man’s sport to task. Lies and smears in the pro hunting press, together with continuous bad mouthing from the Country side Alliance, forced Mr Grant to retire on health grounds.

At present the Charity is without a new chief executive; a job, in the light of the bile and spite pouring forth from the hunting fraternity, is not one any prospective candidate would take on lightly.

In a way, Price Charles is right. The RSPCA will do very well without pro blood sport Royal Patronage.

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8 Comments
Eileen
26/1/2016 07:08:45 pm

I have never understoof how those who love hunting and therefore causing animals pain can be head of animal welfare charities. There was Philip with WWF I think and Charlie boy with RSPCA. The sight of William alongside his Dad Charles lecturing the world on what to hunt and when sickens me. Dump the royals once and for all animal charities and maybe your support will be even stronger from ordinary decent citizens.

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Patricia Betty
26/1/2016 07:57:17 pm

It's their way of sanitising their brutality. They join preservation groups to make themselves look caring, whilst their occult fantasies for killing foxes are couched in terms of 'animal management' or 'conservation'. Unfortunately for them no one is fooled. Decent people everywhere are repulsed by their brutality. The RSPCA will do very well without the 'Royal' prefix, and Prince Charles will do very well to remember the feudal system of forelock tugging and sycophantic drooling over grandiose titles have no real pull in modern Britain.

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Eileen
26/1/2016 09:37:37 pm

Well said my friend

It sickens me to see some young people falling for the royal spin but they usually dont on hunting

Other SPCAs do fine without the royal link and ours may actually do better if they ditch the old 'firm'

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Hannah
27/1/2016 10:30:16 pm

The court case in Oxford should have been made to pay the fees as well as it is usually in most guilty cases. It would had been a bigger lesson and would not have hurt their pockets. Another case of favouritism.. What to expect from judges who are part of the 'elite'

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Bob Wiggin
11/3/2016 10:10:26 pm

Charles and the rest of his awful family are rank hypocrites, one minute crying crocodile tears over the plight of wildlife, next minute satisfying their collective blood-lust by killing numerous birds, wild boar and in Harry's case, a Water Buffalo. It's long overdue that the R.S.P.C.A. stood up for animal welfare and disassociated itself from the Windsor family who, after all, are only patrons of charities or organisations for their own cynical PR purposes.

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F.Benajmin
14/4/2016 09:04:48 pm

The Royals are disgustingly cruel. We don't need to hunt animals so cruelly in this day and age. If an animal needs to be killed it should be done humanely, not hit and miss with someone who's playing with a gun.

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Yvonne cranston
14/4/2016 10:48:21 pm

As long as the royals support hunting what chance do we have to keep the ban . It's a great pity they had nothing better to do I'm disgusted at the so called caring Katherine Middleton supporting this brutal sport We don't need the royal family , they are a drain on the countries resources .

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Simon Tucker
15/4/2016 03:01:23 pm

It is clear that the judge, Tim Pattinson, in the Heythrop Hunt case was corrupt. Instead of criticising the RSPCA he should have simply awarded costs against the defendants, as would normally be the case.

There should be a judicial review of his failure to do so - and he should be removed from the bench as he is clearly incapable of making fair judgements.

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