If the police were persecuting them they'd be shutting the saboteurs down preemptively. I don't blame them for being pejorative to people who are wasting their time, not doing as they're told to and are harassing people doing something legal.

Our resident hol policeman can answer your other claims.

The police are busy, getting them to come out to a crime in progress these days is difficult. No joke, a friends kid was beaten up by other kids, who threatened to stab him, and the police weren't interested in pressing charges - The same kids girlfriend was also beaten up, by a girl with the other lads. This other girl is currently on bail for sexual assault of a 14 year old girl - and she's not been arrested for breaching her bail.

The police just don't have the manpower or the finance to do their job properly. Let alone enforcing the law in the countryside.

Really? You must have been looking at a different incident. The various footages I saw showed a woman shouting 'let go of my horse' multiple times and the guy simply not letting go. He kept pulling hard on the left rein causing the horse to spin. He at no point let go of the rein. He was not hanging on to protect himself, he was hanging on.

Maybe your argument is that had he let go she would have had an opportunity to charge at him, presumably whilst still shouting let go of my horse. It's an ancient Sussex battle cry so I am told.

The police are on the side of the establishment, breaking up pickets on a strike etc, and those out hunting tend to be the same ilk, so no chance of plod bothering on an illegal hunt, i would set off a few fireworks on hunt day if i lived near enough, if a horse bolted as a rocket went off by his head and the lady came off on her head all the better! If she died its one less cruel cnut in this overcrowded island,,,something she would probably be in favour of!

Good point, so what were they doing on horses with dogs?

Everyone is a pussy these days; if your sabbing, you shouldn't be upset if your on the receiving end of some aggro, and likewise fox hunting.

Yeah I know, it might be legal technically, and you might have permission, but lets be honest, everyone thinks you're a bit of a c**t and regards what your doing as sick, vile and pointlessly cruel.

Maybe they should just get the sabs and the hunts together and let them beat ten bells out of one another.

The police are on the side of the establishment, breaking up pickets on a strike etc, and those out hunting tend to be the same ilk, so no chance of plod bothering on an illegal hunt, i would set off a few fireworks on hunt day if i lived near enough, if a horse bolted as a rocket went off by his head and the lady came off on her head all the better! If she died its one less cruel cnut in this overcrowded island,,,something she would probably be in favour of!