MORE than 50 members of the East Cornwall Hunt were in Parliament Square, London on Wednesday, joining the thousands of pro-hunt supporters from all over England and Wales. They had travelled up by train and managed to stay together as a group on a day of high emotions which in some quarters had boiled over into violence. They managed to stay away from the trouble spots and no one from the area was injured. They were also met by Tory spokesperson for South East Cornwall Ashley Gray who joined the protest with his wife Annabel. The East Cornwall contingency were adding their voices to the chants and blowing horns as MPs voted for an all out ban on hunting with dogs. There was a second vote for a delay in the ban which will not come into effect until July 2006. The House of Lords is expected to reject the Bill again but the Government has made its intention clear to push it on to the Statute Book. Local MP Colin Breed did not take part in the vote. A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats said he was out of the country in his role as the party's spokesman on Defence. North Cornwall's Lib Dem MP Paul Tyler voted against a ban. Master of the East Cornwall Hunt, Graham Higgins, said everyone knew what the result of the vote would be before it took place. 'This is not the end, it is just the beginning of the battle,' he said. 'The East Cornwall Hunt will go out and protest again at the drop of a hat. After the High Court there is still the European Court of Human Rights to go to.' He was critical of the five protestors who burst into the House of Commons. 'I don't approve but I could understand their sheer frustration. Country people are fed up with being dictated to by a government which has no understanding of country life. It is also frightening that all it took was a few lads up from the country to break into Parliament.' Mr Higgins said that at the end of the day it would be difficult to police hunts that would still carry on. 'We are not criminals, or cruel, barbaric people. The hunt community loves the countryside, animals, horses, the dogs and even the fox.' He added that if the worst came to the worst and the hunt ceased the dogs, all 70 of them, would have to be put down. 'I would not be able to do it myself. There are years and years of breeding involved in them. They are not house trained and they could not be re-homed it would be cruel to try and do so. The fox hound breed would eventually die out.' Ashley Gray was able to arrange for the vice chairman of the Conservative Party MP Andrew Turner, to meet Mr Higgins and ECH secretary David du Plessis to tell them how the debate was going. 'Wednesday was a pivotol moment in parliamentary history and its affect on the countryside,' he said. 'If ever there was a day for rural MPs to show their metal and defend the countryside and the rights of rural people, it was yesterday. I was pleased to see many people from South East Cornwall.' Among the speakers in Parliament Square was Robin Hanbury Tenison from Mount, Warleggan. He is a former chief executive of the Countryside Alliance.