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Pressure groups that have the support of the media and then most likely the public have a much greater chance of pressurising the government, getting noticed and then getting their views heard and acted upon. This is because the government is accountable to the general public and therefore if the government goes against public opinion on an important issue then it knows that this will have electoral consequences. For example, if the Labour Government had refused to pass the amendment to the firearms act in 1997, campaigned for by Snowdrop, for the 4 years of their first term then it is possible that considerable pressure would have built up and may have eventually led to their removal from
