The Future

It almost certainly won’t be long before the Countryside Alliance is exhorting the rural oppressed to march again in London, and our challenge is to make sure that people know it is an organization for the defence of bloodsports, not an organization which can address the wider problems of diminishing incomes for rural people, not an organization which will stop the countryside being covered in concrete and pollutants, and not an organization which will devote any significant resources to improving the quality of our food. On one hand the Countryside Alliance says it cares about social exclusion, on the other hand, its staff consists of bankers and landlords who specialise in the unequal distribution of wealth, and its shareholdings perpetuate this. On one hand it says it is concerned with the fate of the whole countryside, on the other hand it devotes scarcely any resources to non-bloodsports issues. On one hand, it expresses concern about the environment, on the other hand its staff and donors are busily covering the land in overpriced housing and its shareholdings and PR company are facilitating this. People who care about the countryside must show the Countryside Alliance up for the fraud that it is, and must break its virtual monopoly as the’ voice of the countryside’.

This piece now features in THE RICH AT PLAY – foxhunting, land ownership and the ‘Countryside Alliance’ isbn no 0 9543014 0 4

Sections include:-

• Against Fox-hunting with hounds
• The Land Question: Hunting, the Game Laws, and the Oppression of the People
• Land ownership in the 21st century
• Neither Green Nor Pleasant – the politics of the Countryside Alliance
• The Countryside Alliance – Voice of the Rural Dispossessed?
• Conclusion

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Contributions from Angus Macmillan of ‘Roots-of-Blood Campaign’, Pippa Gallop of ‘Corporate Watch’, Trevor Bark and Mark Metcalf.

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