The e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting is ticking along slowly (probably because nobody has put much effort into promoting it since it sailed past 100,000 signatures). Tomorrow at about 4:25pm will represent four full weeks since this e-petition was launched (after a five and a half week delay) and I’ll update…
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Ban driven grouse shooting – 105,000 signatures
The Petitions Committee staff tell me that prorogation does not end this or other e-petitions so the there are a few days, or many days, left to sign this e-petion depending on how you think the debate on the timing of the general election will be resolved. There’s a race on to be the highest-scoring…
RSPB local groups – another example
I am ******** ************, Group Leader of the Rspb *********************** Group, based at **** **** *****. Thank you for your email on a very important topic. I don’t have any problem forwarding to our members and friends. Literally just have, including it into our monthly mailing. As Rspb members and Local group members, we have…
Where we stand
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The ban driven grouse shooting e-petition is the thirteenth best supported of all the 2187 open e-petitions on the Westminster parliament website – that is, it has the thirteenth highest number of signatures. Here is the list with the title, the number of signatures earlier today, the dates when it appeared and when, in theory…
Wilful blindness continues, completely unabated
Here is an annotated (in bold and italics) copy of the government response to the phenomenally popular petition by Chris Packham to ban driven grouse shooting (see here). Basically, Defra maintains its wilful blindness of the issues and their responsibility to solve them. Grouse shooting is a legitimate activity [only in the sense of being…