We have momentum! Thank you to everyone for your help and support. 80,000+ signatures and we are still a couple of days from the Inglorious 12th when grouse shooting traditionally starts!
Because the average constituency must get 154 signatures by 20 September if we are to hit 100,000, I have listed those which have already crossed the line with six weeks to go: newcomers to the list are shown in bold. This is becoming such a big list that I’m sure there must be some omissions but I’ve done my best!
Calder Valley has now passed 500 signatures!
High Peak has passed 350 signatures.
Skipton and Ripon, Derbyshire Dales, Bristol West and Ross, Skye and Lochaber have all passed 300 signatures.
Eighteen constituencies have joined the ‘200 Club’: Penrith and Border, Cambridge, Dumfries and Galloway, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Edinburgh North and Leith, Bridgwater and West Somerset, Norwich South, St. Ives, Richmond (Yorks), South Cambridgeshire, Sheffield Hallam, Arundel and South Downs, North Somerset, Brighton Kemptown, Ribble Valley, South West Surrey, Colne Valley, Exeter and Hove.
- Calder Valley 522
- High Peak 383
- Skipton and Ripon 329
- Ross, Skye and Lochaber 316
- Derbyshire Dales 314
- Bristol West 305
- Isle of Wight 298
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 291
- Westmorland and Lonsdale 284
- Brighton, Pavilion 283
- North Norfolk 259
- Argyll and Bute 268
- Torridge and West Devon 263
- Sheffield Central 280
- Sheffield Hallam 265
- Lancaster and Fleetwood 257
- Stroud 257
- Suffolk Coastal 248
- Wells 244
- Thirsk and Malton 241
- Ribble Valley 241
- Central Devon 240
- Edinburgh North and Leith 235
- Cambridge 233
- Scarborough and Whitby 231
- Totnes 230
- Penrith and The Border 228
- Norwich South 228
- South Norfolk 227
- West Dorset 227
- York Central 226
- Bridgwater and West Somerset 223
- St. Ives 221
- Arundel and South Downs 220
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 215
- Dumfries and Galloway 214
- South Cambridgeshire 212
- Richmond (Yorks) 211
- Brighton Kemptown 209
- Colne Valley 208
- Exeter 207
- Edinburgh East 206
- North Somerset 206
- Hove 205
- South West Surrey 200
- Tiverton and Honiton 199
- Hastings and Rye 199
- Mid Norfolk 198
- The Cotswolds 197
- Lewes 197
- Ceredigion 196
- Truro and Falmouth 196
- South East Cambridgeshire 196
- Somerton and Frome 195
- Oxford West and Abingdon 194
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 194
- North East Bedfordshire 192
- North Dorset 191
- East Lothian 189
- Taunton Deane 189
- North Wiltshire 188
- Edinburgh South 188
- Bury St Edmunds 188
- Ochil and South Perthshire 187
- Broadland 186
- Forest of Dean 186
- East Devon 186
- Wealden 186
- Bath 185
- Macclesfield 184
- Montgomeryshire 184
- Horsham 184
- Ludlow 183
- Salisbury 181
- Moray 181
- East Worthing and Shoreham 181
- Stirling 181
- Hexham 181
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 179
- Richmond Park 178
- Wantage 177
- Waveney 176
- Penistone and Stocksbridge 176
- Keighley 176
- Bristol East 175
- Camborne and Redruth 174
- South West Wiltshire 174
- Holborn and St Pancras 174
- Twickenham 174
- Perth and North Perthshire 173
- East Yorkshire 173
- Harrogate and Knaresborough 173
- Berwick-upon-Tweed 172
- Canterbury 172
- West Worcestershire 172
- South Dorset 170
- Rutland and Melton 170
- Congleton 170
- Northwest Norfolk 169
- Liverpool Riverside 168
- Louth and Horncastle 167
- Monmouth 167
- Sheffield Heeley 166
- Chippenham 166
- Witney 165
- Folkestone and Hythe 165
- Winchester 164
- New Forest East 164
- Hornsey and Wood Green 164
- Chorley 164
- North Shropshire 164
- Rushcliffe 163
- Bexhill and Battle 163
- Harwich and North Essex 163
- East Hampshire 162
- Shrewsbury and Atcham 162
- Leeds North West 162
- York Outer 162
- Morecambe and Lunesdale 161
- Huntingdon 160
- North West Hampshire 160
- NorthWest Cambridgeshire 159
- Devizes 159
- Manchester Withington 159
- Henley 158
- West Suffolk 158
- Sleaford and North Hykeham 158
- Bristol South 158
- Chesterfield 158
- North Cornwall 157
- Cheltenham 156
- Selby and Ainsty 156
- Oxford East 156
- North East Fife 154
- St Austell and Newquay 154
- Shipley 154
- Banbury 154
- Chichester 154
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Banbury is the final Oxon constituency to hit the 154 target. Well done all six ( one Labour, five Tory)!
Richard – many thanks! I’ve added it at the bottom. I’m sure there are others I have missed, and others that have arrived overnight!
And many thanks to you and Lyn for all your support. We might well get to 100,0000 signatures because of lovely people like you!
Chichester: 155, and counting, yesterday.
Murray – many thanks! I’ve added it at the bottom. I’m sure there are others I have missed, and others that have arrived overnight!
North Herefordshire now 156 and aiming for 200+
James – wow! Now that definitely happened overnight after I went to bed as I do check Mr Wiggin’s seat regularly (if he’ll pardon the expression).
How about a link to the petition? Or am I missing it?
gill – thank you! I’ll do it now.
Mark – I for one would find it interesting to see a list of the ones yet to hit 154. Is this easy to do?
peakaboo – ‘fraid not but you can look yourself here http://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=125003
81,000 at 8.35. I can account for a few of them. How many can you persuaded to sign Victoria Atkins. We are coming for you, be ready!
81,000 reached at 08.35 this morning – my prediction that 100,000 will be attained during the Bird Fair is looking increasingly shaky. Increasingly, it seems it will be reached several days early. If Mark has to buy himself a single beer at the Bird Fair I’ll be very surprised!
Bet Hen Harrier would be a popular tipple – will the Bowland Brewery be there I wonder (must check the programme)? I’ll happily buy Mark a pint and Chris & Bill & BAWC et. al. They deserve it.
81212, still going at 100 an hour, Average Central now at just under 125.
Batley and Spen just about to join the 100 club on 98.
Another 5 signatures in the time it took me to type the above!
You certainly do have momentum Mark, I have put a graph of recent progress on tinyurl.com/bdgsgraph. I will endeavour to update it daily.
Dick – many thanks – that’s great! See you at Bird Fair?
Hope so Mark, we (Action for Swifts with Swift Conservation and Swifts Local network) are in Marquee 8, stand 50, very near BAWC on stand 45.
With 100,000 looking increasingly inevitable would it be possible to expand a bit on what this actually means for the campaign? Barring the need for a good celebration, I’ll admit that my knowledge of the petition process is pretty slim, what happens next?
As I understand it there is the chance (though not 100% certainty) of a commons debate on the subject, and then…? Given that any debate would not have the power to pass legislation, presumably the government responds to the debate somehow? If the government chooses to conclude that nothing needs to be done then are there limitations on how soon another petition can be launched?
Whilst I am pleased to see the issue getting the public support it needs it seems unlikely that this will be the end of the issue. With Andrea “hunting foxes with dogs is perfectly fine” Leadsom at the helm of DEFRA it looks like there might be a lot more work to do!
Apologies for being the spectre at the feast, congratulations to all involved in getting the petition this far, and keep up the big push to the finish!
Ezra – I’ll get to that, but not for a while as I am focussing on getting 100,000.
But you may see some words on this subject next week ahead of the Bird Fair. Thank you for your comment,
Ezra, if you go to the Petition website and follow the links for debates you can get full transcripts from Hansard. The one on bees and neonics might give some idea of the process.
ps I think that in due course we should all write to our MPs briefing them on the subject and insisting that they represent our views in the debate.
Head and brick wall springs to mind, methinks, in the case of Stratford on Avon! Perhaps a mail to Shakespeare would have more effect!
One point: I believe we are certain to get a debate: the ‘help’ bit on the petitions website says that petitions are only not put forward for debate if the subject has recently been debated or is due to be debated shortly: https://petition.parliament.uk/help
And I think of at least 3 MP’s that will be proactive in ensuring a debate takes place.
And I ‘can’ think…
Pretty remarkable that the petition still has such momentum – seems like it’s been around for ages. Do you data on daily number of signatures? Would be interesting to plot over time.
I have put a graph here: tinyurl.com/bdgsgraph
Dick
Wow. Looks like it’s going almost exponential. So have you just been recording the signature count every day? Or is the data available?
The first few data points I got by going back through Mark’s posts. the recent points I take off the petition website.
Sorry, Dick, just noticed your post. Sweet!
Lots of people are doing analysis on the progress of the petition, which is great. Can I just remind on how a straightforward way to get the data into manageable form?
At the bottom of the main page for our petition there is a link called ‘Get petition data (json format)’. That does what it says but you’ll probably want to copy that data to a spreadsheet to manipulate. To do that, you ‘copy all’ the data and paste to something like:https://json-csv.com (There are others, just google ‘convert json to csv’ or similar.) From there, clicking on ‘download’ puts the data straight into an Excel spreadsheet where you can sort and rank it as you please or add other values such as political party by constituency.
Thanks again, Alan.
I keep plugging the link on my blog, hopefully it’ll have added a few.