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@Bezzin
I grew up in the countryside and remember the ban coming into force. The feeling was very much that it was city types enforcing legislation for votes amongst my friends, but then I went to school with almost exclusively farmer's kids / those who were tied to agriculture in some way. I guess it's being used now in the same vein as all this expert bashing and the "people know best" schtick.
As an aside, from those who I knew who hunted, actually catching a fox was very rare indeed, but that's all anecdotal. The alternative was spotting one whilst out lamping and potting away with a shotgun / .22 rifle which always sounded to me to be pretty grim as a fox would take multiple shots to actually finish. And there was a chance that it'd get away, injured. Both sound like pretty bad ways to go...