This is the first of a series of blogs to help you to help Hen Harriers and the upland environment by increasing the pressure on the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting.
This suggestion depends on you having a Twitter account. If you don’t, then maybe you should consider getting one, but there will be lots of other ideas over the next few days or weeks that don’t require you to be one of the Twitterati.
If you go to the home page of the parliament e-petition website and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, then you will find that you can enter your postcode and find how many people have signed any e-petition, including the one to ban driven grouse shooting, in your home constituency.
That will give you a baseline of how many people have already signed.
You are in the best position to tag (include their twitter username, eg @joebloggs) local businesses, groups and friends with a message asking them to sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Give it a go and see how you get on. A tweet to promote the e-petition every few days, or simply once a week, will be noticed and is likely to encourage others in your locality to sign up. You can track progress in your constituency by going back to the home page and entering your postcode again.
There are several individuals taking this approach across the country and I hear from them that they are having great local success – you could do the same. And if you do – thank you very much, you’re part of a movement for change.
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Hi Mark
Thanks for this – I look forward to seeing more suggestions like this in due course. I haven’t tried raising this with my MP. I know that I ought to but I can guess his likely response: he’s one of the ones who blocked circus animal regulations.
However, I have just tweeted my local Green councillor.
Cheers,
Tom