Science based ban?
BBC NEWS | Politics | Peers vote for new hunt law delay
..peers voted to allow unrestricted hunting to continue until the end of November 2007.
Any restrictions after then could only come into force if the government had received a report from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on "the relative pain, suffering or distress caused to wild mammals by hunting with dogs compared with other methods of controlling those with wild mammals", they said.
Seems fair enough - if it is cruelty the banners are worried about what can they object to in that?
Of course because no one understands Tonys muddled reforms of the Lords 95% of people still think it is full of Bufton Tuftons down from the shires - it isn't. Tony packed it with his choices, and because they are free from the tyranny of the polls they still back sense and compromise rather than prejudice and intolerance.