Nicholas Soames MP Flouts Road Legalities on New Years Day Hunt
Just days after a seven year girl tragically died after the quad bike she was driving hit a Range Rover, pro-hunt fanatic Nicholas Soames MP is filmed driving a quad bike on a road overloaded with children and adults following the notorious Crawley and Horsham hunt.
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Pictured above: Tory MP Nicholas Soames, who The Sunday Times famously dubbed Fat Boy Dim, filmed driving the quad bike and trailer bearing no registration plate contrary to the Road Traffic Act and illegally loaded with five adults and several unrestrained children.
A spokesman for West Sussex Wildlife Protection, which monitors the Crawley and Horsham hunt for offences under the Hunting Act, said: "Initially we heard Nicholas Soames was on a quad bike that was overloaded. We thought nothing of it, because with his considerable bulk this was quite likely. However we were astonished to see him on a public road just north of his home at Bells Farm , Slaugham, West Sussex, with several unrestrained young children and adults racing along on a quad bike with no registartion plate. He was desperate to keep up with the hunt and seemed unworried if the children lost their teeth on the metal rim of his quad bike trailer."
Nicholas Soames MP is a key supporter of the Countryside Alliance and a close friend of Prince Charles. Between 2003 and 2005 Soames served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and as a member of the Shadow Cabinet and well as being on the Council of the National Trust.
In 2002 a letter to the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and signed by Prince Charles claimed that that farmers suffered more discrimination than blacks or gays was widely condemned. Even agricultural experts attacked the comments as inaccurate, saying that the issues bore no comparison and pointing out that the many billions of pounds worth of subsidies and grants for farmers dwarf the millions awarded to ethnic minority communities and the negligible amounts given to gay groups. The letter is thought to have been written by the princes close friend Nicholas Soames, a Tory MP.
According to the book Women in Parliament published in 2005, Soames has been named as the 'most sexist' MP, with several female MPs stating that he has made vulgar comments. One says they retaliated by shouting "click" at him — a reference to a claim that having sex with him was "like having a wardrobe fall on you with the key still in". It has frequently been alleged that Soames makes repeated cupping gestures with his hands, suggestive of female breasts, when women are trying to speak in parliament, to sexually harass and distract them from performing politically.
In a vicious attack on Princess Diana, Nicholas Soames told BBC Newsnight that the Princess was paranoid; Soames has no medical qualifications.
Political comedian Mark Thomas accused Soames of dishonestly registering some inherited heirlooms, including a "three tier mahogany buffet with partially-reeded slender upright balustrade supports", as conditionally exempt works of art, which do not attract inheritance tax if the public has access to them. Thomas claimed the public had not been granted access.
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