Repeal of fox hunting

And I should add, not by the Labour government either.

You said '80% of the people in the UK also agree with the ban.'

There is no ban.

If you mean that 80% of the population would agree with a complete ban on fox hunting, that's a different matter and not one under consideration by the government.

Not sure of your point ana?

But as thatbags has pointed out, there isn't/wasn't a ban. Hunting with dogs is still legal, it's just that the number of dogs was curtailed by the Act introduced by Blair.

80% of the people in the UK also agree with the ban. That leaves 20%. How many of these actually hunt? I would suggest a tiny minority. Democracy has to win the day.

I do wonder how people would react if people in towns hunted them with packs of dogs and allowed them to be torn apart in full view? I agree with whitewave.

Of course they try to kill chickens Liz they are predators

A repeal is not proposed but an amendment to bring the law in England and Wales into line with the law in Scotland, which apparently allows the use of more dogs to "flush out" foxes which are then shot.

We live in a small town and our neighbours have chickens. The foxes try to kill them all. No sympathy for the foxes from me.

Ah but they aren't repealing it they are only 'amending' it ...