Mad King George’s ‘dangerous delusion’ persists to this day

APOLOGISTS for the Ward Union staghunt are losing the run of themselves in their bid to defend a blood sport that even foxhunters consider an embarrassment.

In a recent spate of radio interviews, they have sought to romanticise the cruel and idiotic spectacle of snobs in clown outfits chasing semi-domesticated livestock around the countryside.

The most ironic outburst of all was a hunt supporter’s condemnation of those opposed to staghunting as “absolute lunatics”.