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The latest incoherent rantings of Bob Berzins

Updated: Oct 15


It had been a while since we had heard from the animal rights activist Bob Berzins. Having been a regularly mouthpiece of a lot of nonsense in recent years, to further his anti-grouse shooting agenda, Berzins had become quieter of late.

 

Perhaps, we thought, it was because he realised even his own supporters had become tired of his drivel?


Or maybe it was because he was still angry that last time he gave a public lecture it was pointed out that he had lied 22 times in the space of just 46 minutes?


Others wondered if he had gone silent because he also knows about the existence of a very damming video demonstrating his beloved fell running club disturbing a well-known hen harrier nest in the Peak District by charging straight through its location.

 

But, whatever the reasons, Berzins was back over the weekend with more garbage about grouse moors.


Writing for his pal, Ruth Tingay, Berzins made more outlandish claims, this time trying to present a case for the ‘compulsory purchase of grouse moors by local communities.’


The blog contains so many wild insinuations and factual inaccuracies that it is difficult to know where to start. However one is left with the sense of incoherent ranting by a bitter old man, with no credible arguments left to give. Has he not read any of the expert research into this subject or, more likely, he has just chosen to ignore it.

 

To address just the basic points of his argument, nowhere are grouse moors economically beneficial to their owners. They are run as loss making passion projects.


This has been epitomised this season, where virtually all grouse shooting across England and Scotland has been cancelled, yet private investment continued to pour into the management of moors. No community ownership scheme has ever come close to generating the economic, social and environmental benefits of privately owned grouse moors.


The public know this. The policy makers know this. That is why driven grouse shooting continues to be celebrated by the local communities whose livelihoods depend on it.  

 

Berzin’s ramblings are the same old failed arguments, and are no different to those being made during Bolshevik Russia over a hundred years ago. The best thing for everyone is to simply ignore the sad little man, who has seemingly got such an agenda against landowners it possesses his every being. It is sad really. Those living in the real world will continue to ensure our uplands provide the social, economic and environmental benefits for the country as a whole.

 

For readers who would like a reminder of the lies told in his previous article, please see here.

 

 

 

 

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