British Political Party Auction Bloodsports Events.

[Cultural Speciesism Around the Globe.]

The Tories went to huge lengths to keep the black-and-white-themed party secret to avoid damaging headlines about ‘Tory fat cats’. Last year’s event caused controversy when The Mail on Sunday revealed how internships with top City firms were auctioned for thousands of pounds for the offspring of party donors. Internships were banned from this year’s auction, conducted by Sotheby’s chairman Henry Wyndham.

This Baroness Thatcher bronze wen for £120,000

Instead, guests paid tens of thousands of pounds to take part in bloodsports on country estates. One such item alone went for £55,000 – a day’s shooting for eight guns on the Tusmore Park estate in North Oxfordshire, where ‘pheasants and partridges are the main quarry but duck can be shot as well’.

Other lots included a day’s stalking at the Buckhurst Park estate in East Sussex – for which the price was kept secret – and shooting for eight guns on an estate in Chiddingfold, Surrey.

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[Kerry Baker]

I highly recommend getting out and watching a film called 'The Ruling Class' with Peter O'Toole.  It's an old film dating from the 1970's but a brilliant comment on the British class system.