Such a ban is a tragedy...
For years I bred, trained and competed with Jack Russell Terriers.
Each of these little " athletes of the canine world" is a treasure unto itself.
The breed was started and developed with the fox hunters of Britain...and thank them for these remarkable little dogs.
Those "working class" Brits that voted against fox hunting, may well have put many other " working class" Brits out of a job...houndsmen, terriermen, Farriers, vets, etc. etc.
Those "animal rights" types that voted against fox hunting may well have also sent some horseflesh to the French " abatoirs" (sp?) or butcher shops..well ahead of their time...
But then; rarely do we hear around here that Liberals are particularly smart!!!
Just like the Liberal animal rightists that release domesticated mink to the wild...so they can either starve or become "easy pickings" for all the fox and 'yotes in the area...