I beg to differ. There are several cases in the press every week about spurious cases brought by the RSPCA, and legal costs are expensive.

Are you now trying to argue that the media can sometimes be wrong? In that case, can I ask you to look at Pedigree Dogs Exposed with that attitude?

Or are you trying to argue that the RSPCA sometimes get it wrong but mainly they get it right? In that case can I ask you to look at the Kennel Club with that attitude?

This £8 million is public money donated to them on the undertsanding that they use it to help animals and they are wasting it instead of targetting true abusers of animals. I would have thought that someone as interested in the welfare of animals as yourself would be wanting to investigate this rather than sweep it under the carpet.