ROCK star Brian May has predicted that Britain's countryside will be "awash with the blood of innocent animals" if the Tories win the election.

The Queen guitarist warned that political bloodletting would be nothing compared to the blood bath of wild animals that would follow.

The 61-year-old animal rights campaigner took his hard-hitting anti-blood sports message on to the streets today.

He toured parts of West Wales in the company of the local Labour campaign team and was mobbed by music fans wherever he went.

He walked the streets shaking hands and posing with fans for photographs but he also expressed his fears for the return of fox hunting and warned legalised blood sports would be back under a future Conservative government.

"My message is really one of information. I just want people to be aware of the situation," he said during the walkabout tour.

"I want to say 'please be aware that the Conservatives may try to look moderate and nice but they are still steeped in blood sports'.

"The country will be awash in the blood of innocent animals if the Conservatives get back in, and I just want people to be aware of that."