"BAC" wrote in message
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"BAC" wrote in message
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[snip]

IIRC, there was no labour party policy to ban hunting with
hounds,
rather to
allow parliament to decide on hunting with hounds.

You do indeed recall correctly. Parliament voted overwhelmingly
in
favour of a ban (many times), as did the majority of the
population at
large when polled on the question. Those in favout of a ban were
in
the majority even in counties normally closely associated with fox
hunting.


Slight correction there, if I may - only one of the houses of
parliament
voted in favour of a ban on hunting with dogs,

I know that I am wrong wrong, but I don't count the other lot as part
of parliament, since its membership is not determined in a democratic
fashion

and there were no referenda
on the matter to allow regional populations' views to prevail.

I did not imply that there were referenda. There were polls by the
usual reputable polling organisations. And don't say that the polls
were flawed. The results were too overwhelmingly in favour of a ban
to allow for any possible misinterpretation of the results.

Franz