The new old face at BASC

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Christopher Graffius

There have been very titillating rumours of what might be going on inside BASC over the last few weeks including stories of fisticuffs, but it is not for this blog to get too distracted by the travails of others.

However, I couldn’t help noticing that the latest nonsense from BASC is not signed off by the person still named as the Chief Executive on the BASC website, Richard Ali, but by the long-time BASC Communications Director, and one-time guest blogger here, and now acting Chief Executive of BASC, Christopher Graffius. Still, the letter to M&S only trots out the usual lines and pretty closely follows the cribsheet provided by Fieldsports magazine which I dissected here.

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Richard Ali

Richard Ali’s tweets have taken a different form recently (see @Richard_uk).

So, added to the abrupt change in Chair of BASC (exit Alan Jarrett (wildfowler from Kent) and enter Peter Glenser, barrister (no, not barista, barrister)) things are certainly happening.

What a shame, in a way, I won’t be able to catch up on the gossip at the Game Fair this weekend as I’ll be doing some burley-mindering of Henry the Hen Harrier at WOMAD where we plan to talk to lots of young people about lead in game meat and lead in Hen Harriers, and no doubt they will rush to sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.

 

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9 Replies to “The new old face at BASC”

  3. I was told that to become BASC Chairman one has to run, blindfolded, across a patch of burnt heather saturated in fenn traps; the one with the least number of traps attached to his/hers legs becomes the new Chair.

    1. Is that dodging buckshot as well and does the winner get to enjoy a celebratory meal of toxic leaden grouse or are all the contenders fortified with such fare?

    2. I’m obviously mistaken but I was told that all you had to do was consume sufficient lead-laced game meat to so addle your brain that you were rendered totally impervious to science, reason, facts, etc., etc.

  5. My god it was a nonsense letter from BASC wasn’t it? It made me cringe with embarrassment and I didn’t write it. Heather moorland is ‘like a rainforest’ you mean it gets burnt to a crisp?

  6. Mark – don’t just get people to sign the petition get them to share it on the Facebook, Twitter accounts and email it to their address book.
    Can anyone get Richard Branson involved? A message on every Virgin train announcement would get the thing moving.
    Keep up the the good work.

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