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"Whatever credibility the Hunting Bill had, has now been lost," were the views of Dafydd
Jarrett, NFU Cymru Policy Adviser today.
http://www.nfu-cymru.org.uk/newsshow.asp?id=230&status=0
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Scotsman: On the hunt for trouble
Hamish Macdonell and Fraser Nelson. If Holyrood was supposed to be a testing arena from which
Westminster MPs could learn, it has abjectly failed in the task. The MPs appear to have learnt
nothing from the failed experiment in Scotland.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=719962003&tid=40
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Scotsman: Fox hunters urge civil protest
Militant fox-hunters were threatening a campaign of civil disobedience today as ministers pushed
ahead with plans for a ban.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=721772003&tid=40
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Scotsman: Anger as Scots MPs vote on English hunt ban
Scottish MPs were yesterday facing calls to withdraw from England-only affairs as countryside
campaigners reacted with outrage at their part in voting for a total ban on fox-hunting south of
the Border, as MPs for England and Wales could not vote on Scotland's Bill.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=719982003&tid=40
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Telegraph: I will fight Labour repression, pledges new head of Liberty
Stephen Robinson. Shami Chakrabarti, the new head of Liberty, said Liberty took no position on
hunting but noted that efforts to ban the sport reflected the prevailing view of MPs and ministers
who sought to impose criminal sanctions on behaviour of which it disapproved.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/31/nlibe31.xml
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Guardian: Which house really holds the power?
Roy Hattersley. Thoughts on Gerald Kaufman, the Hunting Bill, trial by jury and reform of the House
of Lords.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1002299,00.html
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CBS News: No More Hunting With Hounds?
Ed Johnson. Although Blair's government believes a total ban on hunting foxes with hounds would be
unenforceable, and proposed regulation, Commons voted to approve an amendment banning fox hunting
in England and Wales. Blair did not vote.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/01/world/main561276.shtml
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Herald Sun: British MP's vote for fox hunting ban
British Prime Minister Tony Blair suffered a large defeat in parliament late today as MPs voted
overwhelmingly to ban fox hunting with dogs in England and Wales. Australia.
http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6682144%255E401,00.html
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Yorkshire Dales News: Legal chaos after fox hunting vote
A massive constitutional row seems to be looming after last night's vote in the House of Commons in
which rebel Labour MPs voted against Government wishes for a total ban on fox hunting.
http://www.daelnet.co.uk/countrynews/country_news_01072003.cfm
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Guardian: Scots take stock a year after hunt ban
Gerard Seenan. "Things are done in the countryside for a reason. You can't just come in and
change it and expect there to be no consequences."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,1007264,00.html
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Yorkshire Today: Police chief's fears over hunting ban enforcement
A Yorkshire Chief Constable has warned that police would face serious practical difficulties
enforcing a ban on hunting.
http://www.ypn.co.uk/ViewArticleMore2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=555598
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Telegraph: Lords threat to revamp Hunting Bill
Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Mancroft, a pro-hunting Tory peer and a Countryside
Alliance board member, predicted that the Lords would reinstate the provisions for the regulation
of foxhunting contained in the Government's original Bill.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/11/nhunt11.xml
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Economist: Foxhunting: Blooded
Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power, and the government's weakness shows in its defeat
on foxhunting although the issue is still not settled. There is still the House of Lords, the
Parliament Act, the courts and the ECHR to get through, and even then the police claim it will be
unenforceable.
http://www.economist.com/World/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1897659
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Sydney Morning Herald: MPs say no, but Lords to run with pack
In a bad-tempered late-night third reading debate, Mr Michael said the Government had made a
"genuine effort" to bring forward a sound and workable piece of legislation but MPs had
made it clear they would settle for nothing less than a total ban.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783288790.html
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Sky News: Fox hunt ban backed
Tories failed to win compensation for those who will lose their livelihoods as a result of the ban.
Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael said the proposed scheme was too widely drawn, impractical and
"unworkable". The Human Rights Committee and ECHR may disagree.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12371239,00.html
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Townhall: It's not sporting
Debra Saunders. The issue is power. The majority has the power to write laws that tell the minority
what it cannot do. The majority is not content to hector foxhunters, or try to persuade them to be
kinder in their kills. The majority wants to force the minority - ostensibly a privileged elite -
to obey. Or else. Sometimes the highest purpose of government isn't to protect or to serve, but to
provide believers with the delicious satisfaction of forcing other people to do as they say. Tally
ho.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/debrasaunders/ds20030709.shtml
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Telegraph: What has it got to do with the Scots?
Boris Johnson. While MPs representing Scotland voted to ban hunting in England and Wales, MPs for
England had no say whatever over the fate of hunting in Scotland because it is a devolved issue, a
point which the government continues to ignore.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/10/do1002.xml
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BBC News: Hunt ban clears commons
A bill to ban hunting with dogs has cleared the House of Commons, with the Tories failing to win
compensation for those who may lose their livelihoods, despite the precedent set when fur farming
was banned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3052225.stm
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Financial Times: Hounded into battle mode
Far from being done and dusted, the hunting row will now continue right up to the next general
election campaign. And it will do so loudly.
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030704003980
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Scotland on Sunday: Hated Blair and his chaotic government will come undone
Gerald Warner. Explains why Britain is now pervaded by loathing and contempt for the political
class, and if the government goes ahead with its hunting ban it will end the consensus on which
democracy depends and subsidiarity could turn out to mean something very different from what MPs
and Eurocrats intended.
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/opinion.cfm?id=736252003
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The Washington Dispatch: Hunting Down the Hunters
Martin Kelly. A hunting ban is a law that nobody needs. No matter the issue, the Labour Party
cannot be trusted not to interfere where its influence is not required. It cannot be relied upon
simply to leave people alone.
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_6010.shtml
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ic Wales: Hunting activists threaten chaos if ban is passed
Colin Hughes, The Western Mail. The CA, led by Simon Hart, has distanced itself from the RCA and
points out the manifesto referred to Parliament, not only Commons, and that the checks and balances
in the political system will ensure proposals based on prejudice do not become law.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13149659_method=full_siteid=....
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Telegraph: Ban on hunting is just the beginning
Charlie Brooks. Explains why he finds the RSPCA to be no longer the benign organisation that any
benevolent person would support, but hypocritical and unknowledgeable as they move from hunting to
horse-racing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/07/07/shbroo07.xml
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Telegraph: 'Taiaut!' British huntsmen seek foreign fields
Susan Bisset. Thousands of British hunters are planning to pursue their sport in France, Ireland,
America and Russia if, or, as seems increasingly likely, when it is banned across Britain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/06/nhunt06.xml
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Telegraph: Catholic primate calls for debate on embryo research before fox-hunting
Chris Hastings. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England
and Wales, has criticised MPs for wasting parliamentary time on fox-hunting while ignoring
"alarming" developments in embryo research.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/06/ncorm06.xml
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Guardian: Hunt activists to hound ministers
Stuart Millar. Hunt supporters from the various pressure groups are making plans for the next step
in the escalating battle, from harrassment to civil disobedience to the UK and ECHR courts of law.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,991973,00.html
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Spectator: Break a bad rule
Leader. Based on the results of the Burns Inquiry a complete ban, to be put in place by the
Parliament Act, is ludicrous considering the Human Rights Act was to protect British citizens from
arbitrary and disproportionate legislation.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-07-05&....
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Spiked: Seize the day, save the vermin
Josie Appleton. "Preventing the old elite from practising one of their favourite sports is a
pretty lame and mean-spirited way of trying to establish authority. The fact that foxhunting has
remained an issue for Blair's whole government is down to the domination of gesture politics in New
Labour."
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DE30.htm
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Telegraph: Yesterday in Parliament
Michael Kallenbach, Parliamentary correspondent. Coverage of the debate on the government and total
ban amendments.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/01/npar01.xml
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Telegraph: Blair 'shenanigans' over hunting ban
George Jones, political editor. Tony Blair was accused last night of acting in "bad
faith" by anti-hunting Labour MPs after the Government put further procedural hurdles in front
of their attempts to impose an outright ban on foxhunting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/01/nhunt01.xml
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The Sun: Total ban on foxhunting
George Pascoe-Watson, deputy political editor. The Prime Minister was forced into an astonishing
retreat after it became clear his amendment on the free vote would be defeated. He finally caved in
just six minutes before the vote.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003300821,00.html
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The Sun: The Sun Says
Leader. Voters want action on schools, hospitals, roads, crime, trains and asylum - things that
matter. Chasing vermin with dogs doesn't even show on the radar.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,31-2003300555,00.html
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Sky News: Blair's hunting defeat
Alun Michael suggested an outright ban would prove unworkable and insisted the Government's
alternative would be the best way of preventing animal cruelty.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1095502,00.html
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NEWS.com.au: British MP's vote for fox hunting ban
Following a stormy five-hour debate in the lower House of Commons, the government withdrew its
proposals at the eleventh hour, allowing MPs the opportunity to vote on an outright ban to fox
hunting - an issue that has pitted animal rights activists against countryside dwellers who see
their way of life under threat.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6682144%255E1702,00.html
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News 24 South Africa: Double blow for Blair
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was nursing a double setback on Tuesday after lawmakers voted
overwhelmingly to ban fox hunting with dogs in England and Wales and a poll showed he has lost the
public's trust. The defeat came just hours before a poll in the Financial Times revealed two thirds
of voters do not trust the British leader.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1380853,00.html
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Mirror: PM accused of cutting fox-hunting for hospitals deal
Accusations fly that Tony Blair did deal over fox-hunting to secure support for his foundation
hospitals scheme from Labour MPs.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13128951_method=full_siteid=50143_headlin....
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MegaStar: Blair outfoxed
Rupert Youngman. The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable - Oscar Wilde's quote about
fox-hunting and a pretty good description of rebel Labour MPs turning on their leader.
http://www.megastar.co.uk/world/news/2003/07/01/sMEG01MTA1NzA0OTU2MTE.html
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Manchester Evening News: Going for the kill
Ian Craig. It was not clear today whether the ban will be approved by Parliament and a spokesman
for the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance said the Bill was in complete chaos and terminally damaged.
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/stories/Detail_LinkStory=61896.html
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Los Angeles Times: House of Commons OKs Ban on Fox Hunting
Commons rejected the government measure to allow strictly controlled hunting, but Prime Minister
Tony Blair's Labor government has said that a total ban would be unenforceable.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs1.5jul01235624,1,715180.story
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Independent: Labour MPs fight back as minister supports hunt bill
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. Anti-hunting MPs, calling for a full ban, accused the
minister of blackmail. They said, in a heated and bad-tempered debate, that the Government's
decision to refer the bill back to a committee if an amendment banning fox hunting was accepted was
wrong.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=420587
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Independent: Blair suffers fresh blow as MPs vote to ban fox hunting
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. MPs, led by Tony Banks, the former sports minister,
defied the Government and in a free vote overwhelmingly rejected its Bill by 362 votes to 154.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=420647
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ic Wales: No U-turn on hunting ban - minister
Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael has denied the Government has done a U-turn on hunting to win
support from backbenchers for foundation hospitals.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13129656_method=full_siteid=500....
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Guardian: MPs back total ban on fox-hunting
Nicholas Watt and Michael White. The bill will have to return to a Commons standing committee
because the measure has been so radically altered.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,988610,00.html
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Guardian: Government pleads with rebel Labour MPs to back 'tough' compromise hunting bill
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Alun Michael argued that the government's would ban the
cruelty associated with hunting in all its forms, and be enforceable. Tony Banks claimed the
credibility of the govenment centered on a total ban.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,988539,00.html
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Edinburgh Evening News: Campaigners hail hunting ban vote
The result of the free vote killed off government proposals which would have outlawed stag-hunting
and hare-coursing, but permitted fox-hunting under licence in areas where it was judged to be less
cruel than other methods of culling foxes.
http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=717862003
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CNS News: British Lawmakers Push Ahead With Foxhunting Ban
Mike Wendling, London bureau chief. Douglas Batchelor, chief executive of the League Against Cruel
Sports (LACS), said a next likely target would be North America's estimated 150 packs of foxhunting
dogs. "We would be delighted to take this campaign to other countries."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200307\FOR20030701d.html
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BBC News: Rural anger at 'roughshod' treatment
The CA's Darren Hughes points out that if the hunting bill was really about animal welfare the
legislation would be looking at all other methods of control, looking at the welfare negatives and
positives of each and coming up with a sensible way forward instead of singling out hunting for no
other reason than prejudice and bigotry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3034670.stm
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BBC News: Huntsmen vow to fight on
Reactions in Wales, which is said to have more hunts per square mile than any other area of the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3035158.stm
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BBC News: Hunt master's vow to fight on
Joint Hunt Master Chris Burrows-Wood from Worcestershire, gives BBC News Online his reaction to the
vote on an outright ban on hunting with dogs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3034852.stm
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BBC News: Hunt groups pledge to fight ban
Reactions from all sides, including MPs, peers and lobbying groups. Includes video clip.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3036462.stm
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BBC News: Groups react to hunting vote
Reactions from South West pro- and anti-hunt campaigners digesting the news that MPs have voted to
ban fox hunting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3034160.stm
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Australian Financial Review: Fox-hunting ban wins MP approval
PA. Tony Blair suffered a damaging setback with the vote, which followed a passionate
five-and-a-half hour debate.
http://afr.com/articles/2003/07/01/1056825372148.html
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Telegraph: Will Blair decide to run with the fox or hounds?
George Jones, political editor. The Prime Minister has spent the past six years using every
procedural device to delay a decision while trying to give the impression - as he told David
Dimbleby in July 1999 - that foxhunting "will be banned as soon as we possibly can".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/nhunt102.xml
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Telegraph: Stop the wreckers
Leader. The government-labeled "wrecking amendment" of a complete ban has been passed,
causing questions about how they can now apply the Parliament Act.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/02/dl0201.xml
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Telegraph: Power of peers is restricted by law
George Jones. Explanation of the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949 and how they affect the current
bill to ban hunting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/nhunt202.xml
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Telegraph: Hunting will be banned by 2005, say MPs
George Jones, political editor and Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Ministers expect the
Parliament Acts to be invoked for only the fourth time since 1949 to overcome opposition in the
House of Lords and ensure legislation banning hunting becomes law in the next session of
Parliament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/nhunt02.xml
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New Zealand News: MPs closing in for fox-hunting kill
Background, explanation of the vote to ban hunting, and future possibilities from the point of view
of all sides.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3510413
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Mirror: We'll force through hunting ban by 2005
Bob Roberts, political correspondent. Despite jubilation among Labour MPs, the historic vote was
seen as a fresh blow to Tony Blair on top of a new Mori poll for the Financial Times showing that
nearly two-thirds of voters feel the PM is "losing his grip".
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13132582_method=full_siteid=50143_headlin....
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Independent: Ministers expect ban in force by early next year
Marie Woolf and Andrew Grice. Fox hunting looks certain to be outlawed in England and Wales next
year despite efforts by Tony Blair to distance himself from the vote by the House of Commons in
favour of an outright ban.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=420878
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Guardian: Shooting their fox
An assortment of Letters to the Editor representing various perspectives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,989133,00.html
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Guardian: Quite frankly, I don't care about the fate of the fox
Jackie Ashley. As people turn away from politics in their millions because they feel there is no
great ideological battle, and because they don't see much evidence of improved public services, the
vacuum is filled by noisier, angrier people with a narrower agenda.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,989167,00.html
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Guardian: Leader: Hunt for a solution
Leader. The Guardian praised Alun Michael when he presented his original bill, and blames him now
for trying to tinker with it when it returned to the Commons this week, thereby causing the
procedural problem which triggered the vote to ban.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,989107,00.html
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Guardian: 'If it is made illegal to hunt with dogs, I will break the law'
David Ward interviews Randle Cooke, a joint master of the Cheshire hunt who is also a farmer and
cares for 280 dairy cows on 320 rented acres.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,989252,00.html
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Guardian: Blair risks alienating rural vote in run-up to election
Nicholas Watt and Michael White. Pro-hunting peers plan to overturn the MPs' outright ban and slip
the government's original compromise proposals back into the bill to place the prime minister in
the position of having to reject his own policy because ministers have pledged to uphold the will
of the Commons.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,989254,00.html
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Telegraph: Labour will push on with anti-hunt Bill
George Jones, political editor. A committee of MPs will meet today to amend the Hunting Bill to
bring it into line with Monday's Commons decision to reject a licensing system and impose a total
ban. Under a tight timetable set by the Government, the Bill will return to the Commons on
Wednesday for a three-hour debate and - provided it gets a third reading - will be sent to the
House of Lords.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/03/nhunt03.xml
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Guardian: 'It is town against country'
Clips from UK newspaper editorials after the hunting bill was amended into a complete ban.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/story/0,12900,989811,00.html
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Guardian: Hunting for support
Nigel Henson, Countryside Alliance. Points out that the majority of the public no longer supports a
ban on hunting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,989834,00.html
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BBC News: Fears over police enforcing hunt ban
The Suffolk police chief constable Alastair McWhirter appealed for legislation to be enforceable,
which would be difficult with the Hunting Bill that is currently going through Parliament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/3040544.stm
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New Statesman: Why MPs shouldn't care about hunting
Leader. "Only one argument matters on hunting: that it doesn't matter. It is supremely
unimportant." "If politics is the language of priorities, then our politicians have never
got it so badly wrong."
http://www.newstatesman.com/nsleader.htm
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Telegraph: Police fear hunt ban will turn people against them
John Steele, crime correspondent. A ban on hunting with dogs will create friction between police
and some rural communities and divert resources from the fight against crime, the Association of
Chief Police Officers have told Government and Parliament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/04/nhunt04.xml
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