63,000 signatures.
Here’s a slightly different way of looking at the results so far. We need to get the average (mean) constituency across the whole UK to 154 votes by midnight (I think) on 20 September to get to 100,000 signatures and trigger a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting.
Some constituencies are leading the way – notably the flood-struck constituency of the Calder Valley which sits below Walshaw (grouse) Moor. Calder Valley, and others, are way past the 154 signatures mark already which makes it easier to cope with those constituencies which are at the bottom of the signature league (notably those in Northern Ireland and in many urban areas (particularly in the West Midlands). Thanks to the Calder Valley, already there could be a constituency from which no signatures at all come to our e-petition and the Calder Valley residents have bumped up the average sufficiently to cope. All I’m saying is that there are some high-signing areas that at least compensate for some low-signing areas.
Because 154 by 20 September is an important number for us, I am showing you how many constituencies have already crossed that line with almost two months still to go – it’s more than 50 constituencies.
Here is a list of those already across the line, with how far over the line they already are (roughly – it keeps changing), and a list of constituencies which have already passed 100 signatures (now sorted by political party).
- Calder Valley 355
- Ross, Skye and Lochaber 262
- High Peak 250
- Isle of Wight 244
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 237
- Skipton and Ripon 238
- Bristol West 234
- Derbyshire Dales 231
- North Norfolk 223
- Brighton, Pavilion 220
- Westmorland and Lonsdale 217
- Argyll and Bute 215
- Torridge and West Devon 205
- Sheffield Central 197
- Stroud 195
- Thirsk and Malton 194
- South Norfolk 194
- Suffolk Coastal 194
- Central Devon 191
- York Central 188
- Scarborough and Whitby 186
- West Dorset 184
- Penrith and The Border 184
- Totnes 180
- Dumfries and Galloway 178
- Norwich South 177
- Wells 177
- Sheffield Hallam 179
- Lancaster and Fleetwood 178
- Cambridge 175
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 178
- Bridgwater and West Somerset 172
- South Cambridgeshire 172
- Richmond (Yorks) 172
- Edinburgh North and Leith 169
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 169
- Arundel and South Downs 164
- Truro and Falmouth 161
- Lewes 161
- The Cotswolds 161
- Exeter 161
- North Somerset 160
- Hove 159
- Edinburgh East 160
- Ceredigion 160
- Brighton Kemptown 166
- Mid Norfolk 159
- Colne Valley 159
- St. Ives 158
- Ochil and South Perthshire 158
- Tiverton and Honiton 156
- North East Bedfordshire 155
- South West Surrey 155
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 154
- Hastings and Rye 154
Constituencies with over 100 signatures for our e-petition to get a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting (I’m sure there are some omissions – feel free to point them out):
Conservative: Amber Valley, Ashford, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bath, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Beverley and Holderness, Bexhilll and Battle, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Bournemouth East, Bracknell, Brecon and Radnorshire, Bristol North West, Broadland, Bromsgrove, Broxtowe, Bury St Edmunds, Camborne and Redruth, Canterbury, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, Cheltenham, Chichester, Chesham and Amersham, Chippenham, City of Chester, Clwyd West, Colchester, Congleton, Corby, Daventry, Devizes, Dover, Eastbourne, Eastleigh, East Devon, East Hampshire, East Surrey, East Worthing and Shoreham, East Yorkshire, Elmet and Rothwell, Folkestone and Hythe, Forest of Dean, Fylde, Gainsborough, Gloucester, Grantham and Stamford, Great Yarmouth, Guildford, Harborough, Harrogate and Knaresborough, Harwich and North Essex, Hazel Grove, Henley, Hereford and South Herefordshire, Hertford and Stortford, Hexham, Horsham, Huntingdon, Ipswich, Keighley, Lincoln, Louth and Horncastle, Ludlow, Macclesfield, Maidenhead, Maldon, Meon Valley, Mid Bedfordshire, Mid Derbyshire, Mid Dorset and North Poole, Mid Sussex, Milton Keynes North, Monmouth, Montgomeryshire, Morecambe and Lunesdale, Newark, Newbury, New Forest East, New Forest West, Newton Abbot, North Cornwall, North Devon, North Dorset, North East Cambridgeshire, North East Hampshire, North East Hertordshire, North East Somerset, North Herefordshire, North Shropshire, North Swindon, North Thanet, North West Cambridgeshire, North West Hampshire, North West Norfolk, North Wiltshire, Norwich North, Oxford West and Abingdon, Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, Portsmouth South, Preseli Pembrokeshire, Pudsey, Reigate, Ribble Valley, Richmond Park, Rochester and Strood, Rushcliffe, Rutland and Melton, St Albans, St Austell and Newquay, Salisbury, Selby and Ainsty, Shipley, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Sleaford and North Hykeham, Somerton and Frome, South Derbyshire, South Dorset, South East Cambridgeshire, South East Cornwall, South Northamptonshire, South Suffolk, South Thanet, South West Devon, South West Hertfordshire, South West Norfolk, South West Wiltshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stratford-on-Avon, Tatton, Taunton Deane, Tewkesbury, Tonbridge and Malling, Torbay, Twickenham, Vale of Glamorgan, Wantage, Waveney, Wealden, Weston-super-Mare, West Suffolk, West Worcestershire, Winchester, Witney, Woking, Worthing West, Wyre Forest, Yeovil, York Outer.
SNP: Aberdeen South, Angus, Banff and Buchan, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, East Lothian, Edinburgh South West, Edinburgh West, Glasgow Central, Glasgow North, Gordon, Linlithgow and East Falkirk, Moray, North Ayrshire and Arran, North East Fife, Perth and North Perthshire, Stirling.
Labour: Barrow and Furness, Bassetlaw, Blaydon, Bolsover, Bristol East, Bristol South, Cardiff West, Chorley, Copeland, Edinburgh South, Gedling, Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Holborn and St Pancras, Hornsey and Wood Green, Islington North, Leeds North East, Lewisham West and Penge, Liverpool riverside, Manchester Withington, North West Durham, Oxford East, Penistone and Stocksbridge, Sheffield Heeley, Southampton Test, South Swindon, Stalybridge and Hyde, Tynemouth, Walthamstow, Workington.
Lib Dems: Leeds North West, Orkney and Shetland
Speaker: Buckingham
Plaid Cymru: Arfon, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
Scotland seems to have pretty much ground to a halt – after leading the way.
Northern diver – I certainly wouldn’t say ‘ground to a halt’. Maybe ‘taking a breather’? School holidays start earlier in Scotland too, remember.
2 or 3 symapathetic falconers spreading he word as they do flying displays, exhibitions etc across the West Midlands might get signatures up a bit there. Bloody irritating to see this block of constituencies that are well behind even some urban areas such as Edinburgh. I’m hoping to set up one session at least working with a falconer before the petition closes – fingers crossed will see what happens.