Snooping around, I see Jeremy Irons has been with the pro-hunting Alliance for a bit, saying quite intelligently in 1999: [The countryside] is in modern parlance a balanced ecosystem, and our presence here today is like being a signal; a signal not to meddle for politically correct reasons with that balance. A signal that the voice of rural England will be heard. A signal to leave our countryside alone.

Quite well put, as opposed to ninnies like Paul McCartney who have little to add but sentimental drivel like: There can be no rational reason for this practice to continue, and only when it is banned will we be able to emerge from the dark ages into the light of a new century. Not too cliched, eh?

Other pro-hunting/pro-Countryside Alliance actors and actresses include the aforementioned Anthony Andrews, Robert Hardy (Siegfried of All Creatures Great and Small fame -- one of my all time favorites), Simon Williams (of Upstairs, Downstairs ... noticing a pattern here?), Marsha Fitzalan, and the writer Sir John Mortimer.