Hunting – a vote-winner?
“THE light-bulb moment for me was when we explained the hunting ban to the minister, over heavily paprika-ed goulash,” said Rob Williams, chairman of the multifaceted Surtees Society after our meeting with the Hungarian secretary of state, Dr Zoltán Kovács. “Dr Kovács shook his head in utter bewilderment that Britain, whose hunting tradition the Hungarians have always admired, should be destroying its own cultural heritage.
“I saw then that explaining our sport – educating people, openly making the case like this nation was doing – was what we needed to do to turn the tide. When he said, ‘It’s a
