Jolyon Maugham lets slip

Thanks VanGoghsDog

Totally sounds like he wanted to kill foxes.

I hope the RSPCA are able to follow through with a successful prosecution

twitter.com/265kay/status/1210586120280510464?s=19

He has known for weeks and possibly months then, that his hens weren’t properly safe.

And his response is not to buy a proper pen. Or install the correct welded aviary fencing. Or use Twitter to ask how best to deal with foxes.

His response is to purchase a bat.

I think he positively relished the thought of doing harm and wielding power, quite literally, in a violent way that he knew he could get away with.

He can't have deleted it, it was screenshotted and sent in many many replies to him. Featured the kimono too! I'll try and find it, I know a friend of mine sent it so it'll be in her tweets.

Not sure about when he announced acquisition of the baseball bat but this was his previous attempt at fox battery.

Has anyone got a screenshot of the previous tweet where he mentions getting a baseball bat to protect his chickens? I did search Twitter but couldn't see it, has he deleted it?

To me it feels like his motivation was much more premeditated "pest control" than the humanitarian spin he has put on it.

Really toxic human behaviour

More comment on the #FoxingdayMassacre

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/itll-take-more-than-a-barrister-to-beat-mr-fox-rn2gdvsjk?shareToken=93296936d7b86a42553ec99afe5b4bb5

If they wanted to be safe, additional third space would be fine. But it wouldn't stroke their egos with how totally, supercallifragialisticexpialidociously womany they are. So, no.

theflushedzebra thank-you, by the time this stops being topical it'll be time to NC again

SirVix you have a point, he has tweeted in the past about buying the baseball bat because of foxes but I hadn't made that next step in my mind probably because I'm not a fox killing misogynistic kimono wearing QC-

I've lost chickens to foxes, it's horrible, I felt guilt not an urge to kill for revenge

The more I think about it, the more I feel he may have set out to trap the fox, because he wanted to bludgeon it. Otherwise going out with a baseball bat makes no sense. Foxes run, the only way you can kill one normally is to shoot it, unless you have it trapped. A bat is pointless, it won’t frighten the fox, and you don’t need to defend yourself against a fox as they get away from you.
I think he may have made some kind of trap, hence running out with the bat. The whole thing is deeply weird and creepy. I hate the demonising of wild animals . If a fox takes hens it is the owner of the hens at fault. To kill the predator when predator proof chicken housing is easy to obtain is just blood lust. I say that as a rural person and chicken keeper.
Under that flapping kimono is a very angry man.

NO - you can't feel sorry for him. He needlessly killed a wild animal and he's a horrible smug misogynist, who clearly has a bit of a fetish about his wife's kimono.

He's gone all quiet on twitter, and is obvs just thinking he can wait for this blow over, and then act the hero lawyer on factory farming.

I love your name though JolyonsChickensAreBigots

Wow even the guardian are having a go https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/28/jolyon-maugham-qc-was-a-hero-to-many-then-he-beat-a-fox-to-death

TBH I'm actually starting to feel sorry for him then I remember what a dick he's been to women on twitter and the moment passes

I like to call that the Tinkerbell theory.

"Deliberate misgendering of transmen and women will contribute to those deaths and self-harm."

Why do these people get away with the same nonsense, endlessly repeated? Can they hear what they're saying?

OldCrone has the only sane answer: "How does that work then? Is it like "Every Time A Child Says "I Don't Believe In Fairies" There Is A Fairy Somewhere That Falls Down Dead"?

Aww. theflushedzebra
It's true!

Your grandmother is easily stylish and beautiful without any fur stole, Fannycam, I concur. Fur looks so much better on the animal itself.

*sported a fur

Unfortunately this is an actual example of a situation where privilege will most likely render him immune to prosecution. What should happen is a massive fine at the very least (I'd prefer that people who club animals to death serve jail time).

What is wrong with him??!

@theflushedzebra
Daughters and I spent time on Boxing Day looking through my mother's wedding album and other family photos. Although it was a summer wedding many of the older ladies spotted a fur stole although that one was the most outrageously appalling!
Glad to say my own beloved Grandmother was easily the most stylish present and not a wisp if fur to be seen.

Back peddle alert. It’s not going well.

mobile.twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1210202195557265408

What's especially unfortunate is that I've already started to investigate the enormous harm done by factory farming, with a view to acting in that space in 2020. It would be a pity if my misguided tweets inhibited that. I'll try to do better.
12:44 AM · Dec 27, 2019·
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Joly's chickens should have just been nice and made room. Even though other foxs have killed chickens NAFALT and it's not fair to think foxs kill chickens, I'm sure chickens sometimes kill Foxes

Those chickens are just bigots I tell you

Oh my, Fannycam - my mother was born in the early 40s - it's a long told family tale that seeing a woman in a fox stole like that, she said (aged about 3, "why that woman got a dead dog around her neck?". Out of the mouths of babes, and all that.

Don't kill foxes, and don't wear them round your neck, is the take away here.

''He should have just tutted loudly and moved away...''

Meanwhile I am left wondering if he was inspired by a family predecessor...
(A guest at my mother's wedding!)