The Hunt Defenders

John at the England Project has just posted on the topic of the Hunt Ban and has an attempt at explaining the hunt supporters' feelings.
Some of these hundreds of thousand of people will be angrier than others and some of those will not be able to help themselves in expressing that anger. Any large group will have some people among them who are less able to control their rage. I hope and pray that any incidents will be few and far between and minor.

Minor? Punching a woman because she happens to work for a Member of Parliament who you have a disagreement with? How would John feel if someone punched his wife because someone was upset with her boss?

But of course, John explains that's all the government's fault and he has a go at stoking up the temperature even more.
For some it is no longer about who is wrong and who is right; that process has pretty much run its course and those in the wrong were fortunate enough to have the ear of some of the most wickedly illiberal men and women to have ever held influence in this country.

John, you really ought to look at what you've written. Do you really believe that huntsmen and women are above the law? Do you really think that punching a woman is okay if you're angry?

UPDATE 18th Feb - John's replied to my comments above as an update of his post here.

He says that he hadn't heard about the Badminton incident before writing his post and I apologise to him for assuming that he had.

He says that "I believe that the law is wrong on this issue and I would support a policy of civil disobedience on the issue." Civil Disobidence is a bedrock of our democracy, indeed as I said above egg-throwing is to my mind perfectly acceptable, the problem I have with John's post is that he seems to consider physical violence as civil disobidence. John is going to respond to that by pointing out that he's never said he supports it, however he has managed to write about it now without even vaguely condemning it. All I want to hear from him is that the Beaufort and the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunts have overstepped the bounds of what's acceptable.

UPDATE 18th Feb - Catching a report on BBC West about the Badminton incident, it seems that Dan Norris was actually prevented from taking part in the debate by the egg-throwing. Intimidating people into remaining silent, in my view, also steps over the bounds of decent democratic behaviour.