Polls Hunting Bills Issues Politics Society and Culture United Kingdom
Polls Hunting Bills Issues Politics Society and Culture United Kingdom
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- 81% disapproved of hunting with hounds; 63% would approve of Parliament banning fox-hunting; 59% said it should be up to landowners - not politicians - to decide whether or not to allow hunting on their land.
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- 30% want licensed hunting, 24% want the status quo; 38% want a ban. For the Countryside Alliance.
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- 72% prefer foxhunters to hunt drag, 74% don't think it's humane.
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- 28% want hunting with dogs controlled by a Government licensing scheme; 26% want hunting subject to self-regulation; 43% want it made a criminal offence. For the Countryside Alliance.
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- Q2: 63% support a hunting ban; Q4: 53% support a gamebird shooting ban; 18% support a fishing ban. Results are compared to Feb 1995 study. Throughout Great Britain. For The Mail on Sunday.
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- 25% support an outright ban, 14% regulation, 60% no change and 0% don't know.
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- A selection of polls conducted by MORI about hunting, mostly about the various bills to ban hunting with hounds in the UK, but no longer being updated.
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- Should foxhunting be at the top of the Government's agenda before the next election? 14% yes, 86% no.
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- Complaint by the Countryside Alliance to the MORI/CPHA poll of Oct 22 2001, claiming MORI seriously misrepresented findings of the Government Inquiry into hunting with dogs.
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- Complaint upheld: The ASA determined that the RSPCA's claim that "Independent polls have consistently shown that most people in this country agree with us" was not true.
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- Should LACS help anti-hunt MPs? 19% yes, 79% no, 2% don't know. Should the Labour manifesto commit to banning hunting? 20% yes, 79% no, 1% don't know. Should foxhunting to be banned? 22% yes, 78% no, 0% don't know.
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- Is banning hunting illiberal? 67% yes, 33% no. Is Labour's move to introduce a bill tactical rather than ideological? 67% yes, 33% no.
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- For hunting, 48% of the people questioned favoured tighter regulations or keeping the status quo; 50% believed it should be criminalised. For fox control, 70% believed they should be controlled; 22% did not; 8% weren't sure. For most cruelty, 27% "sn
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- Complaints upheld: The ASA determined that LACS was misleading and inaccurate in a pamphlet about hare hunting and coursing, including using no-longer-accurate data from 1951 when current information was easily available.
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- 43% do not think foxhunting should be made a criminal offence, 47% support the proposal and 10% 'don't know'. For the Countryside Alliance.
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- Do you support an outright ban on hunting with dogs? 26% yes, 73% no, 0% don't know.
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- Do you agree with the ban on foxhunting? 26% yes, 73% no, 1% don't know. Do you think the Lords has the right to oppose the Bill? 76% yes, 23% no, 1% don't know. Links to related stories.
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- Q9: 2% have protested hunting; 1% have participated in hunting; 2% have written a letter against hunting to an MP or editor. Throughout Great Britain. For The New Scientist magazine.
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- Q16: 23% think Prince Charles should not make his views known publicly on fox hunting; Q17: 57% think he is not in tune with the views of the British public on fox hunting. Throughout Great Britain. For The Daily Mail.
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- Q7: 8% think banning fox hunting should be one of the top priorities for the next government. Throughout Great Britain. For The Sun newspaper.
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- Q4a: less than .05% thought foxhunting was one of the most important issues in Britain; Q4b: 1% thought foxhunting was one of the most important issues locally; Q5: foxhunting was at the bottom of the list of very important issues. Throughout England. For
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- Complaint by LACS not upheld.
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- 41% of all voters favour a compromise, 18% oppose a ban, and 36% want the sport abolished.
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- 36% want a new regulatory authority; 22% want hunting to remain subject to existing self-regulation; 37% want it banned and made a criminal offence. Includes link to chart showing trends since 1997. For the Countryside Alliance.
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- Should hunting with dogs be outlawed? 16% yes, 84% no, 0% don't know.
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- List of the responses to hunting-related complaints.
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- Lists results of polls, from independent respected polling companies, which shows decreasing support for a hunting ban. The results directly contradict MPs who claim the support of a massive majority of public opinion as an excuse for continuing to seek a
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- Q13: 57% support a ban on fox hunting. For The Economist magazine.
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- 37% want licensing, 19% want hunting to continue as it is now; 40% want a ban. For the Countryside Alliance.
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- Q18: 55% support a ban on hunting now, compared to 63% in July 1999. Throughout Great Britain. For The Mail on Sunday.
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- If the House of Lords amend the hunting bill from the House of Commons...52% take account of the views of the Lords to enable Parliament to reach a conclusion; 27% the government should disregard Lords; 21% don't know. For the Countryside Alliance.
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- 51% of the public do not want to see hunting with dogs banned.
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- Has the Government taken too long to resolve the hunting issue? 73% yes, 14% no, 10% no opinion, 4% don't know. For the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the League Against Cruel Sports.
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- 57% support MP Michael Foster's Bill to ban hunting with dogs, 32% oppose it. For the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals.
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- Q7: 59% support a ban; Q9: 53% think The Royal Princes should not be allowed 'to take part in any bloodsports'; Q10: 47% think the Royal Family should not shoot; Q11: 55% think they should not hunt; Q12: 17% think they should not fish. Throughout Britain.
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- Complaints upheld: The ASA determined that the IFAW implied a 30-year-old practice was current; that 'full of soil' was an exaggeration; that submitted evidence was insufficient.
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