Published Date:
31 December 2003
A new NOP poll commissioned by the Countryside Alliance has found that 98per cent of the public think that there are more important issues for the Government to tackle than hunting.
The poll asked: "Which of the following do you consider to be the most important for the Government to tackle? The NHS (46per cent), Asylum Seekers (20 per cent) ; International Terrorism (20 per cent); Universities (nine per cent); Hunting (two per cent).
Tideswell's Kay Chapman, East Midlands Regional Director of the Countryside Alliance, said: "This poll shows what everyone, other than Labour backbenchers, knows - hunting is near the bottom of the public's list of priorities.
"No-one outside a few desperate obsessives believes it is an issue worthy of even more parliamentary time in the New Year."
Last month the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights reported that, in their view, the Bill to ban hunting breached human rights.
Kay Chapman added: "If the Government is still determined to bring this issue back then it must respect human rights, and fulfil its promise to legislate on the basis of principle and evidence."
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