AR-News: (UK) Hunt ban 'set to be pushed through'

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13:00 - 02 November 2003 

The Government today signalled its determination to push through anti-hunting 
legislation in the next session of Parliament, despite mass demonstrations by 
pro-hunt campaigners.
The Leader of the Commons Peter Hain said that the House of Lords would not 
be allowed to continue to block legislation on hunting with hounds.
The latest attempt to get a bill onto the Statute Book collapsed in chaos 
last week when it ran out of time in the upper chamber.
The Government now has the option of bringing in a new bill in the Queen's 
Speech on November 26, which it could then force through with the Parliament Act 
if peers continue to object.
In an interview with Sky News's Sunday with Adam Boulton programme, Mr Hain 
made clear that the Government was determined to act.
"We have seen the most flagrant abuse of the House of Lords' power to destroy 
a bill, massively voted for in the House of Commons, successively endorsed in 
our general election manifestos," he said.
"That is the real choice here. Can we continue to allow the House of Lords to 
defy the House of Commons and the will of the people who voted this Labour 
Government in with a mandate to ban cruelty to animals?
"We will have to find a way of ensuring that a ban on cruelty to animals, 
which was what the House of Commons voted for overwhelmingly and what the people 
supported in two general elections, is implemented.
"The House of Lords cannot continue to stand in the way of that because 
otherwise it is an abuse of democracy."
However Mr Hain did not say whether any new legislation would involve a total 
ban on hunting with hounds.





It can truly be said:  Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are 
the tormented souls. --Arthur Schopenhauer 
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