BASC former Chief Executive, Richard Ali, was dismissed for gross misconduct (full report with lots of gory details). Remember BASC is not a charity, so the Charity Commission holds no sway here. These people have guns.
Category: SHOOTERS
EPIC FAIL 4 – the scale of the fail
We (because I am sure that you, dear reader, signed the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting) have been luxuriating in the glow of the size of support for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting for a few months but now that the ‘rival’ e-petition in support of grouse shooting has closed, on a…
Bottom of the shooting league table?
The review of gamebird shooting regulation across Europe carried out for SNH is a cracking read – a real eye-opener. Decision-makers across the UK should study it carefully. What emerges from it is that gamebird shooting in the UK (in all four countries) is way adrift of the European norm in terms of standards of…
Heroes and villains
The RSPB is celebrating the success of its long term Stone Curlew recovery project at the moment. And so it should, as the Stone Curlew was heading for extinction in the UK before the RSPB got involved. The recovery of this bird, which will always remain localised in its distribution because it is quite fussy…
EPIC FAIL 3 – MPs and their constituents
Given that this is the last day of life, if you call that living, of the e-petition in support of grouse shooting (currently standing at 25,320 signatures), it is interesting to look back to the debate in parliament and the MPs who spoke or intervened in that debate. Here are two lists of MPs, a…
Countryside Alliance nervous about evidence review?
As pointed out yesterday, NRW are looking at the role of shooting on our land, public land, in Wales. The Countryside Alliance is asking its members to wade in with their views – which is a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. And it’s perfectly reasonable for you to send in your views too….
BASC members told to appear nice
BASC has issued a press release telling its members to hide their wild side and to appear nice in case they lose their firearms licences. The advice comes after someone’s behaviour on social media was used to withdraw a firearm licence (reinstated on appeal). BASC doesn’t actually tell its members to be nice people, just…
Many BASC members find their social life unimproved by shooting.
BASC carried out a survey of ‘the public’ and asked 1457 people some questions back in March 2015. However, the public were 84% BASC members and 16% non-members. Only 77% of respondents (remember 84% were BASC members) said their social life would be poorer without shooting. Clearly at least 8.3% of BASC members would have…
Chris Packham and the nasty brigade
Chris Packham has come through a BBC investigation unscathed it seems. Hooray! But Ian Botham seems not to have forgotten the trouncing that Chris Packham gave him on the Today programme (back on 11 August) as he was quoted in the Sunday Times, ‘This decision is a risible whitewash. Yet again it shows the BBC’s…
Firm briefing 13 – the BASC firm line
A new line has begun to appear in some standard letters being sent out by MPs, overwhelmingly by Conservative MPs, in response to your letters to them about the debate on driven grouse shooting. I suspect that these are designed to be used in responses to BASC members but have found their way into replies…