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The Ambridge Socialist

26^th December

70 years of the class struggle in Borsetshire

Is the Borsetshire Boxing Day Hunt going ahead?

The BBC’s focus will be elsewhere in 2020, well away from the seasonal event of real importance in Ambridge- the Boxing Day hunt.

For some years the South Borsetshire Hunt was led by patrician Oliver Sterling but this important job in the ruling class structure of the County is now with horse lover Shula Archer.

Whether or not the Hunt will go ahead in a period of COVID restrictions remains unclear and Ambridge Socialist reporters have been investigating.

For understandable reasons Ambridge is in Tier minus zero but the area of England where Borsetshire is situated is in fact in Tier 2 as of Boxing Day.

The Government which is of course very friendly with the hunting fraternity has waved COVID restrictions for Boxing Day hunts except in Tier 4

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boxing-day-hunts-exemption-lockdown-restriction-808540

Aside from stalwarts of the local ruling class the Hunt has attracted some of the most unpleasant of Ambridge residents from Rob Titchener to Philip Moss

Ambridge Socialist Editor Keith Flett said, we expect a report in the Daily Telegraph later in the week about how the Hunt got on, if it goes ahead. We are less sure the BBC will cover it. We don’t mind hunting providing Tories are the subject of course.

Update

While its possible that in line with Hunting Office guidelines the Borsetshire Hunt went ahead well away from Ambridge it seems more likely that in common with other hunts in the area it was cancelled. Let’s hope a tradition has been started:

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18939816.hunts-cancel-boxing-day-meets-covid/