The only way the ban could finally be carried was by invoking the Parliament Act to prevent the UK's second chamber (the same chamber that was celebrated for voting against the PEL Bill, I seem to recall) from debating the issue.

There would I accept have been more than a little irony if the UK's second chamber had voted against the Licensing Act 2003 - for as the Bill was first introduced there - the Parliament Act would not have been able to have been used by the Government to force it through.

Sadly at the last moment - the Lib Dem peers decided to vote with the Government - so the Lords were not celebrated for voting against the Act as you wrongly state. It is a sad fact that they did not vote against it - for if they had - this poor piece of legislation Act would not have become law.....

The main difference however was that - unlike the Act's passage in the Commons - a number of sensible debates were held and measures introduced into this Act in the Lords - until they lost their nerve (or were misled) at the last moment. In this case - and up to that point - our Peers were correct and acting in the majority interest. In the matter of Hunting With Hounds - they were not doing this.