Just for interest, here are the MPs who spoke in Monday’s badger debate, annotated with the number of their constituents who signed the anti-badger-cull petition and those who signed the ban-grouse shooting petition:
Paul Flynn, Newport West 119 badgers, 113 grouse shooting
Stephen Doughty, Cardiff South & Penarth 141 badgers, 185 grouse
Richard Drax, South Dorset 374 badgers, 248 grouse
Angela Smith, Penistone and Stocksbridge 165 badgers, 266 grouse
Rachael Maskell, York Inner 246 badgers, 358 grouse
Danny Kinahan, South Antrim 47 badgers, 89 grouse
Jessica Morden, Newport East 103 badgers, 93 grouse
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, The Cotswolds 280 badgers, 288 grouse
Paul Monaghan, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 85 badgers, 216 grouse
Roger Gale, North Thanet 175 badgers, 194 grouse
Simon Hart, Camarthen West and South Pembrokeshire 186 badgers, 180 grouse
Margaret Ferrier, Rutherglen and Hamilton West 67 badgers, 124 grouse
Sue Hayman, Workington 111 badgers, 187 grouse
George Eustice, Camborne and Redruth 331 badgers, 249 grouse
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Not many speakers. Does this show that the whole thing is a waste of time?
And not many constituents either …..