A furious councillor was filmed calling a group of hunt saboteurs ‘f****** stupid’ after they used horns to confuse hounds during a legal drag event.
North Wales Hunt Saboteurs posted a video of Flintshire community councillor Ed Lloyd-Ellis during an angry confrontation at the Flint and Denbigh hunt in Wales.
He claimed that the group were using electric horns to try and puzzle the dogs and said they were ‘interrupting’ the ‘lawful activity’.
Mr Lloyd-Ellis, 41, said the hunt – which involves laying a scent that the pack of hounds then search for – has been harassed by demonstrators for four years.
A furious councillor was filmed calling a group of hunt saboteurs ‘f****** stupid’ after they used horns to confuse hounds during a legal drag event
He could be heard shouting: ‘You’re f****** stupid! Do not call them, you’re interrupting a lawful activity. Do not call the hounds.
‘They’ve already f***** off once because of you. You’re just f****** ignorant.’
One male member of the saboteurs accused him of not laying trails and a woman told him: ‘Do not chase foxes and do not hunt illegally’.
But Mr Lloyd-Ellis added: ‘Do not call the hounds. You’re bloody sending them all over the place. We are not chasing foxes. Keep quiet and it’ll be all right.’
He added: ‘You d******* are calling them. It’s a lawful activity and you lot are interrupting it. You are harassing us.
‘It f****** is lawful. You lot are ignorant, do your homework, find out the facts and then you can speak about it.’
Speaking after the video, the farmer added: ‘The so-called incidents the saboteurs have posted recently which involves me happened in two separate incidents in autumn 2016 and last year.
North Wales Hunt Saboteurs posted a video of Flintshire community councillor Ed Lloyd-Ellis during an angry confrontation at the Flint and Denbigh hunt in Wales
He claimed that the group were using electric horns to try and puzzle the dogs and said they were ‘interrupting’ the ‘lawful activity’
‘It is true I did lose my temper and swear in one of the videos, but it was because the saboteurs had blown their own electrical horn to draw the hounds away from the huntsmen.
‘This meant the dogs were all over the road, and they blocked the road with a car so we couldn’t get to them.’
He continued: ‘It was by a main road, so yes I lost my temper as I felt they were just playing a game, it’s a power trip for them.’
Mr Lloyd-Ellis, a liaison officer for the hunt, also rejected claims he had spat at the protestors.
He added: ‘The alleged spitting was actually a screen shot from one of the sabs’ videos.
Mr Lloyd-Ellis, 41, said the hunt – which involves laying a scent that the pack of hounds then search for – has been harassed by demonstrators for four years
He could be heard shouting: ‘You’re f****** stupid! Do not call them, you’re interrupting a lawful activity. Do not call the hounds
One male member of the saboteurs accused him of not laying trails and a woman told him: ‘Do not chase foxes and do not hunt illegally’
‘If they had shown the full video you would see me being punched to the right cheek, before spitting out a little blood with saliva, which was directed away from anyone.’
He added: ‘We do not kill animals, we adhere to the law. I honestly think this whole thing is about a class war, but what the saboteurs need to realise that members of the hunt come from all walks of life, we have a doctor, a welder and quite a few farmers in our ranks.’
Fox hunting was made illegal in 2004 but drag and trail hunting is still permitted across the UK.
Hounds are allowed to follow a scent but aren’t able to chase foxes.
MailOnline has contacted North Wales Hunt Saboteurs for comment.