Originally from: coleen
                        
David Lowes Deputy Chief Exucutive Countryside Alliance (Letter Cumberland News)

He states that Cumbria seems to have buried it head regarding the L&L March. (perhaps he has the same letter in other rural papers). He writes that on a visit to your County last week – I had to ask, where are the banners, the car stcikers – the resolute who so love the Countryside?
This march is about the right of people to hunt?
We are not asking everyone to like hunting, but to ask themselves what will happen to our landscape if parliament are allowed to ban hunting.
For this would be a ban on fiction – and predujices – not fact.
He goes onto say Cumbrians should remember well what happens when a government acts like this etc etc...

So he wonders why the ordinary person living in the countryside, the farmer, the people who care about the countryside even, will not don boots and march! Because apart from their members people HATE hunting. And no matter what is being said and written – this march is seen as that.

This Cumbrian for the past 25 years does remember – she also remembers that the CA did not seem to care about what happened to the landscape when the fell sheep were being slaughtered, or millions of other animals. How dare he write, Cumbrians should 'know and remember' what happens!

Cumbrians farmers all mostly family run – do not – will not go and march under this banner. They are busy working on their farms. He is correct when he asks where are the banners etc – they are almost non exsistent. I wonder why?

We drove through Teesdale and then onto Richmond on Friday, very few again. There were a few on the A66 between Barnard Castle and Richmond – but underneath some of the banners it read (save hunting). This busy road was nose to tail with mainly tourists – this is the lasting impression they see. They probably have no idea what is really happening in the Countryside – but then they see 'save hunting' banners. Why no banners – saying save farming, save our schools, save our tranport – all far more important to the majority of rural people. Maybe then, just maybe, we might get a little more support.

Perhaps the hunting lobby, will be satisfied when the Countyside is emptied of people, they can then ALL hunt to their hearts content – with no one to bother them.

Coleen