North London Hunt Sabs plot takeover of HSA
- dereckhoward99
- May 21
- 2 min read
According to disgruntled sab insiders, members of the notorious North London Hunt Saboteurs (NLHS) are apparently organising themselves for a takeover of the leadership of the Hunt Saboteur Organisation (HSA).
HSA is run by 12 individuals who are elected each year by the group’s members. But it seems NLHS is trying to pack this committee with members of its own group in an attempt to take control of HSA’s political activities.
In a post to its Facebook page, NLHS has urged its members to “vote for change” by voting in three of its own, named only as KBG, RG and AV. These three have been identified by Behind The Masks as Karol Butrimas-Gair, Rhys Giles, and Angela Vasiliu.
Sources close to the matter have suggested that this planned coup by the NLHS is representative of wider divisions among sabs. One source told us, “North London Sabs group are not liked by other groups. North London think they are the top dogs of the sabs group”.
Tensions within the sab community are clear, with NLHS acolyte, James Gray, commented on the post suggesting that the current HSA committee members have “been there for years like a little clique”.
NLHS’s post was revealing about other matters too. Apparently “turnout last year was pitifully low” in HSA’s last elections. Perhaps most sabs don’t actually care about the HSA’s internal structure and governance, and instead just want to wear intimidating masks to harass individuals enjoying themselves in the countryside.
Who are the three NLHS candidates?
RG is clearly Rhys Giles, who must be a busy man these days. He’s already a core member of NLHS and recently the self-appointed ‘Director’ of the shadowy organisation ‘New Hunting Ban’, which BTM has recently uncovered to be nothing more than a pseudo-professional lobby group for the NLHS.
A self-proclaimed devotee of animal welfare, Giles has proudly admitted to using electronic devices to play hound noises in order to disrupt hunts: a very dangerous tactic that can cause hounds to stray from the trail, in some cases running into roads and oncoming traffic.
His other hobbies include trampling over famers’ crops, trying to pressure businesses into ceasing associations with hunts, and holding talks about sabbing (the posters for which have been torn down on two occasions, demonstrating that perhaps most ordinary people are hostile to Giles’ preaching).
AV is likely to be Giles’ partner in the world of hapless lobbying, Angela Vasiliu, who is the New Hunting Ban’s ‘Operations Manager’ and a keen member of NLHS.
Vasiliu is involved with ‘Meat the Victims’, which proudly encourages supporters to “disobey unjust laws together to abolish animal exploitation”. She is also an organiser for the Guildford branch of AV. The organisation has been heavily criticised by other animal rights activists and vegans who have accused the organisation of racism and ableism.
The third NLHS candidate the group is trying to plant into HSA’s leadership, KBG, is probably Karol Butrimas-Gair. When she’s not running around fields dressed in black and intimidating country folk, Butrimas-Gair is an Officer at Stevenage Works.
Sabbing is a family affair for Butrimas-Gair, who is frequently joined by her husband Rob and reportedly her son Harry.
