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  Banning fox hunting was another nail in the coffin of rural Britain and damaged a lot of people's livelihoods, DT1. For what gain, exactly? So that a few foxes die in a trap or from poisoning or shooting instead? That's about the only 'positive' I can see.
  
  Meanwhile it is typical New Labour/urbancentric misconception that foxhunting is the pursuit purely of the upper classes. If you followed the odd fox hunt, as I did as a child, you would have seen that. This country is actually the poorer for the loss of this tradition.
  
  Maybe if some of these do-gooders had seen the state of a chicken coup after a fox attack they may have a different view on this creature.
  
  If it is silly in your opinion, so what? Since when was being silly grounds for making it illegal? Who are you to make a judgement on that? Many types of religion, or sport, or other leisure pursuits might be described as silly. Do we outlaw those too?
  
  England is now a hopelessly over-urbanised country, which is as much a state of mind as anything else - possibly more cut off from nature than anywhere else on earth.
  
  Reverse the ban.

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