Many good points raised here, the best answer to give, without alianating one side or the other may be that:
"UKIP believe in giving power back to the people in local referendums, for instance where hunting takes place a referendum should be held, where no hunting takes place no referendum, I havent noticed the Brixton stag hounds out of late or the Birmingham City hunt riding out lately either, inner city and urban MPs should concentrate more on HUNTING drug dealers and BANNING drive by SHOOTINGS, and leave rural affairs to rural peoples"
My personal view is that this had not alot to do with cruelty but more to do with an imagined class war (lets give the toffs a bloody nose) and funding for the labour party.
What has been achieved by the ban is lots of working class people, stable lads/girls, farriers, vets etc, to poorer lives (lower wages, loss of jobs), the fox has been condemmed to exstinction (hunts tend to take out old and infirm, and a few cubs during cubbing season), shooting and gassing will be less discriminate and therefore many more will be killed.
AB said
"and kills the fox by tearing it apart"
A fox is never ripped apart whilst alive, the first dog will break it's neck with a bite similar to way abig cat dispatches a zebra in the wild, so the fox is very very dead before the ripping starts, thus feels nothing and by this point being somewhat dead already, couldn't care less.
Charles II done a similar thing to Cromwell and sent his appendiges to the four corners of the kingdom as a sign to his subjects, was Cromwell bothered, being dead he had no idea what was happening, so it didn't hurt and didn't matter much to him.
Regards
Dave
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