Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 16,055
She moved away from the subject of pheasant pies and partridge curries to criticise the hunting of game. Bit like me having a go at Tony Bloom about the animal welfare of battery raised chickens after he gave me a free pie at Norwich. I feel Botham was hijacked and dealt with it well. I don't agree with him though.
But hunting is how they get the meat for the pies! So there is bound to be a lot of people who wouldn't be in complete favour of this initiative. And she wasn't criticising it, she was presenting the other side of the argument, which he chose to belittle her for, instead of answering the questions. I've seen it done countless times – and had it done to me.
He thought he deserved an easy ride and he didn't like it when he didn't get one*- especially from a Doris.
There is obviously a bit of creative writing in the press release as well because she was under the impression that they were giving away the birds for nothing. That's clearly not the case, hence her comment about it being a commercial operation, which it is. If he really wanted to help the needy, surely he would give them ALL away?