EXCLUSIVE: POLICE PRAISED FOR BRAVERY

POLICE who defended Parliament from a pro-hunt mob should be recognised for their bravery, an independent report says today.
Sixty officers were injured when a Countryside Alliance rally turned violent as the House of Commons voted to ban fox hunting in September 2004.

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Class issues.
Oscar Wilde once famously referred to "the English country gentleman galloping after a fox" as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable". Even before the time of Wilde, much of the criticism of foxhunting has been couched in terms of social class. They argue that while more "working class" blood sports such as cock fighting and badger baiting were long ago outlawed, fox hunting persists.

More recently the British anarchist group Class War has argued explicitly for disruption of fox hunts on class warfare grounds. Hunt supporters have often claimed that the associated legislation passed in the United Kingdom in 2004 banning hunting with dogs was motivated by a 'class war'.