First of all I have nothing to do with Mr Fox I have sen them many times and enjoy them but having been involved in a event where they performed the scare the s**t out of the elf N safety brigade fire bangs and 6 foot foxes.I also have nothing to do with straw bear and have never seen it but I can understand (perhaps that a word to think about) Wheatmans problem he is probably fighting local officaldom with utter frustration and he hears this, local officals also hear things and he has to block it to protect the bigger event.
I once saw a risk assessment on a rapper side which the local council where trying to block in our terms a group of dancers enjoying themselves in their terms a very very dangerous occurance coming out at high risk a lot of effort was put in to ensure they performed. IMHO don't castigate Wheatman understand his problems andsupport him