But it does mean there will be no mention or fox hunting in the Queen's Speech.
Yet fox hunting has generated passions out of all proportion to the numbers concerned.
Golf for this crowd was secondary to fox hunting with packs of hounds, bird hunting and polo.
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Such a statement could be made only by someone who has never had the experience of fox hunting.
Whenever, whenever the Government's in trouble it brings up fox hunting, as a way of buying off its own left wingers.
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"We have been involved in the fox hunting debate and I think angling is part of the same debate, " he said.
Over 75% of the population of the UK wants fox hunting banned, so why at such a majority hasn't it been banned?
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An Oxfordshire hunt has been banned from using National Trust land after two of its members were convicted of illegal fox hunting.
The fox hunting bill is already complicated by the fact that it allows three possible options, from a near total ban to self-regulation.
The group said pro-hunt campaigners would demonstrate at every stage of the Bill - which outlaws stag hunting and hare coursing and restricts fox hunting.
The first Hunt Cup took place in 1894, when two fox hunting clubs challenged each other to a race to determine which had the better horsemen.
He denied that his former role as chairman of the Countryside Alliance, which supports fox hunting, meant he resented the RSPCA for seeking to prosecute lawbreakers.
He pledged his party to fighting Labour's right-to-roam legislation in the Lords and decried plans to ban fox hunting as a "vindictive" attack on country sports.
So the main point of fox hunting is pest control.
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The objection to fox hunting is not just a matter of concern for the fox but may also involve finer feelings for the society in which we live.
He was a noted opponent of fox hunting and had a passion for cats, many of which, over the years sprawled happily across the papers on his desk while he worked.
Board of Education, which led to desegregation of U.S. schools, as well as an unusual little case involving fox hunting among the Southampton gentry that illustrates the slippery concept of property ownership.
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But although the government is will not take any direct action on fox hunting, Home Secretary Jack Straw has said the government will give its backing to a backbench bill on this issue.
In 1997 Britain elected a government that promised a vote on banning the sport and Mr Downing, seeing the writing on the wall, left the next year. (Fox-hunting was eventually banned in 2004.) After three years with a hunt in Alabama, he moved to Virginia, where English-style fox-hunting has been popular since George Washington's day.
He shared the tastes of his English contemporaries: Madeira, his coat of arms and fox-hunting.
Mr Blair cannot use that excuse to explain another illiberal act: his plan to ban fox-hunting.
But in Britain's new devolved constitution, Parliament can only decide the future of fox-hunting in England and Wales.
So, a fox-hunting ban is a perfect cause to unite the party and deflect critics away from more expensive campaigns.
For the class warriors of the left, fox-hunting is wrong because the structure of the hunt reflects ossified social hierarchies.
Fox-hunting is unusual in attracting support from all classes in the countryside.
The government has ordered an inquiry into fox-hunting, but is expected to make parliamentary time available for a hunting ban to become law.
So for example the Assembly government isn't able to create a bank holiday on St David's Day or legalise fox-hunting, even if it wanted to.
Mr Blair excoriated the Tories for their past opposition to women's votes and a national health service, and their present defence of fox-hunting, General Pinochet, and hereditary peers.
The fox-hunting ban still has to be pushed through Parliament.
The chances are that Europeans will just have to learn to live with the odd inaccurate portrayal as a fox-hunting obsessive or as a flamenco-dancing bull-fighter, despite increasing integration.
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