July 2003 News and Media Hunting Bills

Leader. The government-labeled "wrecking amendment" of a complete ban has been passed, causing questions about how they can now apply the Parliament Act.

• 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.
• 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.
• BBC News: Rural anger at 'roughshod' treatment - The CA\\'s Darren Hughes points out that news and media if the hunting bill was really about animal news and media welfare the legislation would be looking at all news and media other methods of control, looking at the welfare news and media negatives and positives of each and coming up news and media with a sensible way forward
• Guardian: 'If it is made illegal to hunt with dogs, I will break the law' - David Ward interviews Randle Cooke, a joint master 2003 of the news and media Cheshire hunt who is also a 2003 farmer and cares for news and media 280 dairy cows on 2003 320 rented acres.
• Scotsman: On the hunt for trouble - Hamish Macdonell and Fraser Nelson. If Holyrood was news and media july supposed to be a testing arena from which news and media july Westminster MPs could learn, it has abjectly failed news and media july in the task. The MPs appear to have news and media july learnt nothing from the failed experiment in Scotland.
• ic Wales: Hunting activists threaten chaos if ban is passed - Colin Hughes, The Western Mail. The CA, led july by Simon Hart, has distanced itself from the july RCA and points out the manifesto referred to july Parliament, not only Commons, and that the checks july and balances in the political system will ensure july proposals based on pre
• BBC News: Hunt ban clears commons - A bill to ban hunting with dogs has news and media cleared the House of Commons, with the Tories news and media failing to win compensation for those who may news and media lose their livelihoods, despite the precedent set when news and media fur farming was banned.
• Guardian: Quite frankly, I don't care about the fate of the fox - Jackie Ashley. As people turn away from politics july in their news and media millions because they feel there is july no great ideological battle, news and media and because they don\\'t july see much evidence of improved public news and media services, the july vacuum is filled by noisier, angrier people with news and media july a narrowe
• Telegraph: Catholic primate calls for debate on embryo research before fox-hunting - Chris Hastings. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O\\'Connor, the head of 2003 the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, 2003 has criticised MPs for wasting parliamentary time on 2003 fox-hunting while ignoring "alarming" developments in embryo research.
• New Statesman: Why MPs shouldn't care about hunting - Leader. "Only one argument matters on hunting: that 2003 it doesn\\'t july matter. It is supremely unimportant." "If 2003 politics is the language july of priorities, then our 2003 politicians have never got it so july badly wrong."
• Telegraph: Lords threat to revamp Hunting Bill - Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Mancroft, a pro-hunting july Tory peer 2003 and a Countryside Alliance board member, july predicted that the Lords 2003 would reinstate the provisions july for the regulation of foxhunting contained 2003 in the july Government's original Bill.
• Telegraph: Police fear hunt ban will turn people against them - John Steele, crime correspondent. A ban on hunting july with dogs july will create friction between police and july some rural communities and july divert resources from the july fight against crime, the Association of july Chief Police july Officers have told Government and Parliament.
• 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.
• Telegraph: Labour will push on with anti-hunt Bill - George Jones, political editor. A committee of MPs 2003 will meet july today to amend the Hunting Bill 2003 to bring it into july line with Monday\\'s Commons 2003 decision to reject a licensing system july and impose 2003 a total ban. Under a tight timetable set july 2003 by the Government, the Bill
• Edinburgh Evening News: Campaigners hail hunting ban vote - The result of the free vote killed off 2003 government proposals july which would have outlawed stag-hunting and 2003 hare-coursing, but permitted fox-hunting july under licence in areas 2003 where it was judged to be july less cruel 2003 than other methods of culling foxes.
• CBS News: No More Hunting With Hounds? - Ed Johnson. Although Blair\\'s government believes a total 2003 ban on hunting foxes with hounds would be 2003 unenforceable, and proposed regulation, Commons voted to approve 2003 an amendment banning fox hunting in England and 2003 Wales. Blair did not vote.
• Guardian: Hunting for support - Nigel Henson, Countryside Alliance. Points out that the majority of 2003 the public no longer supports a ban on hunting.
• Sky News: Blair's hunting defeat - Alun Michael suggested an outright ban would prove july unworkable and july insisted the Government\\'s alternative would be july the best way of july preventing animal cruelty.
• Guardian: Which house really holds the power? - Roy Hattersley. Thoughts on Gerald Kaufman, the Hunting july Bill, trial 2003 by jury and reform of the july House of Lords.
• Sky News: Fox hunt ban backed - Tories failed to win compensation for those who july will lose their livelihoods as a result of july the ban. Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael said july the proposed scheme was too widely drawn, impractical july and "unworkable". The Human Rights Committee and E
• Telegraph: Ban on hunting is just the beginning - Charlie Brooks. Explains why he finds the RSPCA 2003 to be news and media no longer the benign organisation that 2003 any benevolent person would news and media support, but hypocritical and 2003 unknowledgeable as they move from hunting news and media to horse-racing.
• BBC News: Fears over police enforcing hunt ban - The Suffolk police chief constable Alastair McWhirter appealed 2003 for legislation to be enforceable, which would be 2003 difficult with the Hunting Bill that is currently 2003 going through Parliament.
• BBC News: Hunt groups pledge to fight ban - Reactions from all sides, including MPs, peers and news and media lobbying groups. Includes video clip.
• News 24 South Africa: Double blow for Blair - British Prime Minister Tony Blair was nursing a july double setback july on Tuesday after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly july to ban fox hunting july with dogs in England july and Wales and a poll showed july he has july lost the public\\'s trust. The defeat came just july july hours before a poll in
• Telegraph: Power of peers is restricted by law - George Jones. Explanation of the Parliament Acts of 2003 1911 and news and media 1949 and how they affect the 2003 current bill to ban news and media hunting.
• Sydney Morning Herald: MPs say no, but Lords to run with pack - In a bad-tempered late-night third reading debate, Mr Michael said july the Government had made a "genuine effort" to bring forward july a sound and workable piece of legislation but MPs had july made it clear they would settle for nothing less than july a total ba
• Guardian: Shooting their fox - An assortment of Letters to the Editor representing 2003 various perspectives.
• The Independent - Labour MPs fight back as minister supports hunt bill - By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent
• Guardian: Government pleads with rebel Labour MPs to back 'tough' compromise hunting bill - Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Alun Michael argued that the government\\'s news and media would ban the cruelty associated with hunting in all its news and media forms, and be enforceable. Tony Banks claimed the credibility of news and media the government centered on a total ban.
• Telegraph: Blair 'shenanigans' over hunting ban - George Jones, political editor. Tony Blair was accused last night july of acting in "bad faith" by anti-hunting Labour MPs after july the Government put further procedural hurdles in front of their july attempts to impose an outright ban on foxhunting.
• 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 Scotl
• BBC News: Groups react to hunting vote - Reactions from South West pro- and anti-hunt campaigners july digesting the news that MPs have voted to july ban fox hunting.
• The Sun: Total ban on foxhunting - George Pascoe-Watson, deputy political editor. The Prime Minister news and media was forced into an astonishing retreat after it news and media became clear his amendment on the free vote news and media would be defeated. He finally caved in just news and media six minutes before the vote.
• BBC News: Hunt master's vow to fight on - Joint Hunt Master Chris Burrows-Wood from Worcestershire, gives news and media BBC News Online his reaction to the vote news and media on an outright ban on hunting with dogs.
• Guardian: Blair risks alienating rural vote in run-up to election - Nicholas Watt and Michael White. Pro-hunting peers plan news and media 2003 to overturn the MPs\\' outright ban and slip news and media 2003 the government\\'s original compromise proposals back into the news and media 2003 bill to place the prime minister in the news and media 2003 position of having to reject his own policy news and media 2003 because min
• 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.
• Guardian: Leader: Hunt for a solution - Leader. The Guardian praised Alun Michael when he 2003 presented his original bill, and blames him now 2003 for trying to tinker with it when it 2003 returned to the Commons this week, thereby causing 2003 the procedural problem which triggered the vote to 2003 ban.
• Guardian: Hunt activists to Hound Ministers - Stuart Millar. Hunt supporters from the various pressure groups are july making plans for the next step in the escalating battle, july from harassment to civil disobedience to the UK and ECHR july courts of law.
• Guardian: Scots take stock a year after hunt ban - Gerard Seenan. "Things are done in the countryside 2003 for a 2003 reason. You can\\'t just come in 2003 and change it and 2003 expect there to be 2003 no consequences."
• Guardian: 'It is town against country' - Clips from UK newspaper editorials after the hunting bill was amended into a complete ban.
• 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.
• Telegraph: Will Blair decide to run with the fox or hounds? - George Jones, political editor. The Prime Minister has news and media july spent the past six years using every procedural news and media july device to delay a decision while trying to news and media july give the impression - as he told David news and media july Dimbleby in July 1999 - that foxhunting "will news and media july be banned as soon a
• Economist: Foxhunting: Blooded - Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power, and 2003 the government\\'s july weakness shows in its defeat on 2003 foxhunting although the issue july is still not settled. 2003 There is still the House of july Lords, the 2003 Parliament Act, the courts and the ECHR to july 2003 get through, and e
• BBC NEWS - Do you support a fox hunting ban? - Hunting with dogs may be outlawed for good news and media in two years after MPs voted for an news and media outright ban on the blood sport. Tell us news and media what you think.
• Telegraph: What has it got to do with the Scots? - Boris Johnson. While MPs representing Scotland voted to 2003 ban hunting in England and Wales, MPs for 2003 England had no say whatever over the fate 2003 of hunting in Scotland because it is a 2003 devolved issue, a point which the government continues 2003 to ignore.
• Northern Echo - Hunting Bill 'terminally damaged' say campaigners - THE Countryside Alliance says the Government has wrecked news and media news and media its hunting with dogs bill by voting overwhelmingly news and media news and media for a complete ban.
• Financial Times: Hounded into battle mode - Far from being done and dusted, the hunting news and media july row will now continue right up to the news and media july next general election campaign. And it will do news and media july so loudly.
• Scotland on Sunday: Hated Blair and his Chaotic Government will Come Undone - Gerald Warner. Explains why Britain is now pervaded news and media by loathing and contempt for the political class, news and media and if the government goes ahead with its news and media hunting ban it will end the consensus on news and media which democracy depends and subsidiarity could turn out news and media to mean someth

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