Pro-foxhunting group says UK hunters should be protected ethnic minority
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Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people

  • Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people. They have prepared a legal case to try to prove that hunters are an ethnic minority whose hunts should be protected under equality laws.

  • Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010.

  • Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”

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  • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    They’re just making it up.

    “as a protected minority group under the Equality Act”

    There’s no such thing as a “protected minority group” or “qualifications of an ethnic group” under the Equality act, there are protected characteristics (and references to groups therewith), none of which come close to describing anything about fox hunting groups (whose only common characteristic is that they are bourgeois).