38,000 – and your help needed please

Yesterday when I was in…oooh!…nearly gave it away then…our e-petition passed 38,000 signatures.

That is, in two months, a third of the time available, we are well past a third of the way towards the 100,000 signatures needed to generate a debate in Westminster on the future of grouse shooting, and therefore to bring the arguments and questions to a much wider audience.

I have quite a few ideas for accelerating the rate of signing of the e-petition and so do some friends, but all of them depend on spending some money – and we are already spending our own money on this campaign – so I will be asking you if you are prepared to make a small  (or large if you wish!) financial contribution towards spreading the word. But I’m not asking that today – just a ‘heads up!’.

Since the last update a further nine constituencies have joined the ‘100 Club’, including Ceredigion, the first Welsh one.

Here is the current and ever-growing list:

1. Calder Valley 241 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON
2. Ross, Skye, Lochaber 180 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP
3. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 157 signatures –  Drew Hendry MP, SNP
4. High Peak 157 signatures – Andrew Bingham MP, CON
5. North Norfolk 152 signatures – Norman Lamb MP, LIB
6. Brighton Pavilion 142 signatures – Caroline Lucas MP, GREEN
7. Skipton and Ripon 141 signatures – Julian Smith MP, CON
8. Isle of Wight 138 signatures – Andrew Turner MP, CON
9. Sheffield Central 137 signatures –  Paul Blomfield MP, LAB
10. Derbyshire Dales 135 signatures – Patrick McLoughlin MP, CON
11. Bristol West 133 signatures – Thangan Debonnaire MP, LAB
12. Penrith and The Border 128 signatures – Rory Stewart MP, CON
13. Argyll and Bute 127 signatures – Brendan O’Hara MP, SNP
14. Westmorland and Lonsdale 125 signatures – Tim Farron MP, LIB
15. Central Devon 125 signatures – Mel Stride MP, CON
16. Sheffield Hallam 124 signatures – Nick Clegg MP, LIB
17. South Norfolk 122 signatures – Richard Bacon MP, CON
18. Torridge and West Devon 122 signatures – Geoffrey Cox MP, CON
19. Totnes 121 signatures – Sarah Wollaston MP, CON
20. Bridgwater and West Somerset 120 signatures – Ian Liddell-Grainger MP, CON
21. Dumfries and Galloway 119 signatures – Richard Arkless MP, SNP
22. Norwich South 119 signatures – Clive Lewis MP, LAB
23. Suffolk Coastal 118 signatures – Theresa Coffey MP, CON
24. Thirsk and Malton 117 signatures – Kevin Hollinrake MP, CON
25. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 116 signatures – Stuart Blair Donaldson MP, SNP
26. York Central 115 signatures –  Rachael Maskell MP, LAB
27. Scarborough and Whitby 114 signatures – Robert Goodwill MP, CON
28. South Cambridgeshire 113 signatures – Heidi Allen MP, CON
29. Wells 112 signatures – James Heappey MP, CON
30. Stroud 110 signatures – Neil Carmichael MP, CON
31. Edinburgh North and Leith 109 signatures – Deidre Brock MP, SNP
32. West Dorset 109 signatures – Oliver Letwin MP, CON
33. Edinburgh South 108 signatures – Ian Murray MP, LAB
34. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 108 signatures – David Mundell MP, CON
35. Cambridge 108 signatures – Daniel Zeichnar MP, LAB
36. Ochil and South Perthshire 106 signatures – Tasmina Ahmad-Sheikh MP, SNP
37. East Lothian 106 signatures – George Kerevan MP, SNP
38. St. Ives 105 signatures – Derek Thomas MP, CON
39. Richmond (Yorks) 104 signatures – Rishi Sunak MP, CON
40. South West Surrey 103 signatures – Jeremy Hunt MP, CON
41. Mid Norfolk 103 signatures – George Freeman MP, CON
42. Arundel and South Downs 103 signatures – Nick Herbert MP, CON
43. Waveney 102 signatures – Peter Aldous MP, CON
44. Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 102 signatures – Callum Kerr MP, SNP
45. East Devon 101 signatures – Hugo Swire MP, CON
46. Brighton Kemptown 100 signatures – Simon Kirby MP, CON
47. Stirling 100 signatures – Steven Paterson MP, SNP
48. Ceredigion 100 signatures – Mark Williams MP, LIB
49. Exeter 100 signatures – Ben Bradshaw MP, LAB

 

Or, by party:

100% Green seats

50% Liberal seats

20% SNP seats

8% Conservative seats

2% Labour seats

0% other seats

 

 

 

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