Peter Oborne exposes the interested parties who failed to march on Sunday
ONE of the most remarkable things about Sunday’s magnificent Countryside March was the superhuman effort shown by many people to get to London. This does not merely apply to the folk from Scotland and the north of England who rose hideously early in the morning to make long, boring coach journeys south. Not just to the disabled marchers who braved physical pain, the 97-year-old woman who insisted that she would get round if it was the last thing she did, or the pregnant woman who completed the march, though due to give birth the following day.
People came from the ends of the earth. Rounding Eastcheap in the City of London, I encountered the formidable lady president of the American Master of Fox Hounds Association. A little later, walking at a snail’s pace down Lower Thames Street, we were cheered by a crowd of French hunters over for the day.
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