"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message
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from Sacha contains these words:

I am NOT arguing that ALL country
dwellers are pro-hunting but the march on Westminster would appear to
suggest that an awful lot are - and probably the majority.

Are you really telling us that you believe most of Britain's
country-dwellers attended that march?

The marchers represented their own view; they very obviously did not
represent the views of those absent rural-dwellers who chose not to
support them!


It cannot be denied that those who attended the demonstration represented
their own views, and not necessarily the views of the greater number who did
not attend. However, it cannot be sound to deduce that all those who did not
attend were tacitly indicating a contrary opinion. The best way to determine
the views of the people of England and Wales over the matter would probably
have been to invite them to vote on it.