BAC

"Michael Saunby" <msaunby@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:bdi28p$lol$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> Those who oppose hunting are quick to claim that the majority of the
public
> want hunting banned. Fair enough, if that's the measure that matters,
then
> let it be determined by a referendum. Otherwise stop making the damned
> stupid claim.
>
> The EU hasn't chosen to ban hunting - presumably they could if there was
> widespread support for such a ban in Europe. As far as I'm aware it
hasn't
> even been seriously considered in France or Ireland.
>
> British landowners don't have to allow hunting, yet many do. Clearly
> they're not part of this claimed anti-hunting majority.
>
> So at some level between what we as citizens of Europe are entitled to do,
> and what we as landowners are entitled to do, there is a desire from some
> to interfere in the matter of hunting. What is there is in the way the UK
> is governed that says that this decision should be made in (the parish
of?)
> Whitehall? Why not allow each parish, or shire perhaps, decide for
itself?
>

I agree (apart from the Citizen of Europe bit) this should be put to the
people of the areas concerned to decide. Not much chance of that, though.