The anger in the countryside is palpable. It came to a head at the 2023 Game Fair, when Tory MPs lined up to criticise DEFRA, not Labour. DEFRA secretary Thérèse Coffey didn’t even turn up (we replaced her with a cauliflower). Meanwhile, Labour environment spokesman Daniel Zeichner was surprisingly positive about shooting sports.
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- Full interview with Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP
- Full interview with Greg Smith MP
- Full interview with Daniel Zeichner MP
- Zac Goldsmith’s tweet about on Mark Spencer
Coffey cauliflower pictures
More from the 2023 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre:
Are we in danger of wiping out our deer? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 80
The enthusiasm of British politicians for massacring British deer is starting to worry deer managers. Five guests on the stage of the Carter Jonas Game
Shooting Girl with an Afro – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 79
youtu.be/hqSEUM4D4gw Pigeon shooter, game shot and deerstalker Nicole Moore comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023 to talk to Charlie Jacoby about her
Firearms licensing: the police view – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 78
Three firearms licensing officers came to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023 to make the case to Charlie Jacoby
GL43: what went wrong? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 77
DEFRA’s crisis over general licences is helping to kill the rural vote for the Tories. Charlie Jacoby had two chats with BASC staff Gareth Dockerty,
James Wallace of River Action – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 76
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJv6KTS4Bxk James Wallace of River Action talks to Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about his pressure group’s work cleaning up British rivers.
Big bag days – yes or no? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 75
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t30FXnWxGn8 It’s Shooting Times editor Patrick Galbraith versus sporting agent Mark Osborne in this one-hour debate at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023. The
