The Trail To Where?

I am a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. Ah, the old ones are the best.

It is in rural communities, and especially among those whose families have lived here for a very long time, that one encounters the strongest feelings on both sides of the hunting debate.

But the ban on foxhunting was to buy parliamentary support for the Iraq War. Tony Blair, who never voted for the hunting ban, bet the then Prince Charles a tenner that hunting would still be going on 10 years after it had been banned. That debt was honoured.

Clogging up legislative time with what would likewise be only a paper ban on trail hunting must also be in order to buy support for something rather more pressing. But what?