Ian Botham to feed the poor with game birds

[aga man]

Sounds like the way forward to me!

 

Well done Sir Ian.

[oldypigeonpopper]

 

The birds will be donated to the Country Food Trust between October and February, together with £40,000 that will allow the meat to be turned into ready to cook meals. The pheasants are to be used to make casseroles of diced meat, vegetables and herb, while the partridges will be turned into curry. The meals will then be distributed by the Country Food Trust through charities such as Veterans Aid, FareShare and the Salvation Army.

 

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/ian-botham-offer-game-birds-shot-grounds-poor/

 

http://www.thecountryfoodtrust.org/about/

hello, THANKS CT i read that and can say from my last post a far better way to do than a general food bank, in that case i hope it will be a success.

[Penelope]

Thanks for the links Charlie. A lady who sat our dogs for my wedding is something to do with helping the homeless in and around Southend. I shall point her in this direction.

[scotslad]

Did anyone hear Botham on the radio?

I think it was yesterday morn, my neighbour was on about it.

 

Seemingly the interview was going well and Botham was coming across well and the halfway throu the interviewer started asking random questions unrelated to his appeal but anti shooting.

My neighbour is a clever old ****** and reckoned it was fairly clear that the interviewer was being told wot to ask and where to take the interview.

 

I think it was on 5 live but not sure

[Winston72]

Exactly this! I nipped to the local convenience store this evening and the two very large "masculine" ladies in front of me had an armful of reduced pizzas at £1 each, 6 boxes of chocolate fingers, 2 bottles of prosecco and they then gleefully announced they could now afford 6 scratchcards because they had saved on their food bill!

By masculine I mean the smaller one had short hair, tattoos, a gruff voice and looked like a white Mike Tyson. The big one wasn't as feminine.

Next time you see my sisters say hi from me

[Vince Green]

When my friend first moved to a rural part of France he really gained acceptance from the local community by distributing surplus rabbits he had shot to old folk in particular and neighbours generally in the village.

 

I couldn't see that working in this country

Edited August 4, 2017 by Vince Green

[CharlieT]

Did anyone hear Botham on the radio?

I think it was yesterday morn, my neighbour was on about it.

 

Seemingly the interview was going well and Botham was coming across well and the halfway throu the interviewer started asking random questions unrelated to his appeal but anti shooting.

My neighbour is a clever old ****** and reckoned it was fairly clear that the interviewer was being told wot to ask and where to take the interview.

 

I think it was on 5 live but not sure

 

Good to see that the CA are taking it up..............

 

Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Tim Bonner writes:

On Monday morning cricketing legend Sir Ian Botham was invited onto BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast to talk about his support for the Country Food Trust which had been highlighted in the previous day’s Sunday Times. Sir Ian is donating 10,000 pheasants and £40,000 in aid of the Country Food Trust’s efforts to feed people living in poverty and the BBC asked him to appear on their programme to discuss the project.

What happened next was quite extraordinary. It was an indictment of the BBC’s integrity and it raises significant questions about the BBC’s engagement with the animal rights agenda as promoted by its own presenter Chris Packham amongst others.

Sir Ian was asked one, solitary question about the Country Food Trust, with a quick follow-up to clarify whether it was a commercial operation. From there every question presenter Rachel Burden asked got further and further away from the subject Sir Ian had been asked on the programme to talk about. The questions fixated on “killing animals for sport”, raised vague allegations of “appalling” treatment and unspecified diseases, before bringing up the hunting of entirely unrelated species such as grouse and even elephants and lions.

It was an ambush. Sir Ian had been asked to appear on the BBC to discuss the work of a charity and instead found himself having to answer a barrage of entirely unrelated questions for which he had no opportunity to prepare. What can possibly have happened to BBC editorial rigor to allow such a blunder (and such a breach of BBC Editorial Guidelines) to occur?

There is a clue to be found in the line of questioning put to Sir Ian. Every issue raised was unrelated to the work of the Country Food Trust but was directly related to the very public animal rights campaigning of Burden’s fellow BBC presenter Chris Packham.

The BBC have told us time and again that Chris Packham is not a BBC presenter, that the BBC’s guidelines do not apply to him and his influence has nothing to do with the BBC’s current affairs broadcasting. Yet here we have an obvious example of BBC current affairs broadcasting being used to promote the full anti-shooting agenda as promoted by Chris Packham.

Since the ludicrous ruling by the BBC Trust that Chris Packham is not a BBC presenter and is therefore not subject to its editorial guidelines it seems to have lost any semblance of control over his actions. His recent attack on Ilkley Moor, a grouse moor that has won a Purdey Award for conservation excellence and has hosted a Countryside Alliance walk for ramblers to show off its conservation successes, was echoed across four different media outlets only because of the platform the BBC provide him.

On the Glorious 12th Chris Packham will take his animal rights activism to new heights as he leads a march on Westminster seeking to ban everything from badger culls to grouse shooting to legal hunting. The impact of this protest, which would otherwise go almost unnoticed, will be amplified across the media by his presence. By continuing to hire him to front its shows, the BBC is taking sides against the working countryside.

We will not let this lie. Our previous complaints over the continued hiring of Chris Packham have been met with mealy-mouthed excuses from the BBC Trust, but the dreadful interview with Sir Ian Botham and Chris Packham’s ever-intensifying campaigns against the hunting, shooting and farming communities are clear evidence of an institutional prejudice against rural people in some parts of the corporation. If the BBC refuses to regulate itself then its reputation will be dragged down just like those of other once great institutions that have become overly influenced by the animal rights agenda.

Tim Bonner

Chief Executive

[Scully]

Thanks for posting CT. I received the email this afternoon but have no means to post the link.

Cheers.

[old'un]

Thanks for the post CT

 

This does not surprise me one bit with the BBC, like the Panorama program last night about the RSPCA, never seen then go so lightly on a organisation.

Does anyone know if BASC are voicing their objections to this type of questioning, someone needs to come down heavy on this type of thing and quickly.

[scotslad]

Aye cheers for posting that Charlie

 

Must admit I have to take my hat of to the CA and tim bonner over the last few years they have done a massive amount of good for shooting/country sports and really making Basc look bad (esp with the LAG)

 

Will the radio interview be on I player? Never really do much like that before, how long does it stay on for.

 

My neighbour has no clue about hunting/shooting but said the interview just came across as a complete hatchet job

[JDog]

Had Botham been quicker off the mark he could have stopped the interview in it's tracks.

[stagboy]

Sorry, I like Botham, I like shooting and have no time for the BBC, but this looks like yet another clumsy pro-gameshooting PR stunt gone badly wrong. And there have been far too many of those, frankly.

 

Feed the elderly and "poor" with pheasants shot by rich "toffs"? Oh come on - what sort of reaction did you think that would get in Corbyn-era Britain?

 

No, I am not saying I agree with the characterization - I simply mean that's how it would be taken by the Biased Broadcasting company, which is fed by the like of LACS, of which Labour leader Corbyn is a key supporter. The class warriors in Labour must be splitting their sides with glee at this own goal.

 

It's all very well the CA shouting and screaming now, but the damage is done. I mean, Dunkirk was a seminal moment - but it wasn't a victory. When will shooting propagandists stop putting their head in the noose?

 

At its core, this scheme is very worthy, of course. The mistake, in the current climate, was in wheeling out a wealthy celeb to publicise it and thereby trigger a media feeding frenzy.