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Police probe MP quad bike footage
 
The picture from Hunt Monitors shows Mr Soames with the children

Police are investigating a film allegedly showing a Conservative MP riding a quad bike on a public road.

A child is seen perched behind Nicholas Soames, MP for Mid Sussex. Two more children and other adults are in a trailer being towed by the quad bike.

Hunt saboteurs claim the footage was shot on New Year's Day in Slaugham, West Sussex, as Mr Soames followed the Crawley and Horsham Hunt.

Of course these folk areas entitled as anyone else to go along, watch the procedings and presumably their aim is to try to ensure that the recent laws on hunting are being complied with.  But it strikes me that this sort of telling tales, whoever the alleged driver, is all about spite and class warfare.  Do they sit by the side of the road in their no doubt urban havens of natural bliss photographing and reporting every road traffic misdemeanour?  I'll bet not.

Such are the people with whom many Lib Dem MPs hitched their wagon in the hunting debates.  They should have been more circumspect and understood that the anti-hunting campaign was a political, class based campaign against "toffs" like Soames, the "unspeakable".