Well done Rob Sheldon!

Yesterday, at midnight, Rob Sheldon could stop looking at how his e-petition was doing and relax.  His e-petition to ban the use of toxic lead ammunition had passed 17,000 signatures and had run its six-month course.

17,051 is a perfectly respectable total – and  is probably more than Rob had hoped for at the beginning, and feared at stages through the process, so he should be pretty content with how it has done.Well done! to him and thank you to all who signed up.

But there probably are some general lessons that can be taken from this e-petition and I’ll come back to them soon.

The map of constituencies above shows that places with WWT centres received high levels of signatures: Slimbridge (Stroud, highlighted in blue above), Barnes (Richmond, London), Arundel (Arundel and South Downs) and Welney (North West Cambs and South East Cambs) but there are some other strong ‘green’ enclaves too: Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, Derbyshire and Inverness.

Here is the list of the constituencies which provided the most signatures (70+):

1. Stroud 188 signatures – Ian Carmichael MP, CON
2. North East Bedfordshire 102 signatures – Alistair Burt MP, CON
3. South Cambridgeshire 91 signatures – Heidi Allen MP, CON
4. North Norfolk 88 signatures – Norman Lamb MP, LIB
5. Derbyshire Dales 79 signatures – Patrick McLoughlin MP, CON
6. Skipton and Ripon 77 signatures – Julian Smith MP, CON
7. Arundel and South Downs 76 signatures – Nick Herbert MP, CON
8. Thornbury and Yate 76 signatures – Luke Hall MP, CON
9. South East Cambridgeshire 75 signatures – Lucy Frazer MP, CON
10. Richmond Park 74 signatures – Zac Goldsmith CON
11. Bristol West 73 signatures – Thangan Debonnaire MP, LAB
12. Suffolk Coastal 72 signatures – Theresa Coffey MP, CON
13. Central Devon 71 signatures – Mel Stride MP, CON
14. Torridge and West Devon 71 signatures – Geoffrey Cox MP, CON

All of these constituencies are in England, most are rural and most have Conservative MPs.

 

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