Lots of overtime - looks like it will soon be on offer to our police force from February. I expect that the individual officers will be as keen to take it as they were in the 80s.

I hope for all our sakes, that someone takes some time to play all this down before February. The thought of 50,000 illegal hunters being openly encouraged by the Countryside Alliance and permitted by the police to break the law - is not going to go down very well with the vast majority of law-abiding people in this country.

These estimated 50,000 who are supposed to be turning-up to hunt illegally - may very well be met with considerably more and equally angry people, who feel that if the law and those who are paid to enforce it are unable (or unwilling) to prevent this open criminal activity - that it may be up to them to ensure that the law is obeyed.

I hope that common sense will prevail before then or if not - that indivdual members of organisations who insist on openly encouraging others to break the law and carry out this criminal unrest, are dealt with under measures already in place to prevent and deal with such illegal incitement.