70,000 signatures

70000We have momentum! Thank you to everyone for your help and support. 70,000!

The number of signatures already logged begins with a ‘7’ – which means that the number needed now begins with a ‘2’. That is achievable but not easy. We are going for it.

Because 154 by 20 September is an important number for us (the average constituency must get 154 signatures by 20 September if we are to hit 100,000), I am showing you how many have already crossed that line with almost seven weeks still to go.

Here is a list of those constituencies 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).  Newcomers to their categories are shown in bold.

Calder Valley has now passed 450 signatures and is well on its way to 500. This is undoubtedly because of the floods which hit this area and the strong local campaigns to Stop the Burn!  High Peak has burst through the 300 barrier – perhaps because of the leafletting going on in that area? Nine constituencies have joined the ‘200 Club’: South Norfolk, Central Devon, Scarborough and Whitby, West Dorset, Totnes, Sheffield Hallam, Wells, Lancaster and Fleetwood and York Central.

  1. Calder Valley 461
  2. High Peak  318
  3. Skipton and Ripon 290
  4. Ross, Skye and Lochaber  274
  5. Bristol West  263
  6. Isle of Wight  262
  7. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey  260
  8. Derbyshire Dales 255
  9. Westmorland and Lonsdale  246
  10. Brighton, Pavilion 241
  11. North Norfolk 233
  12. Argyll and Bute  231
  13. Torridge and West Devon 226
  14. Sheffield Central  222
  15. Suffolk Coastal 220
  16. Stroud 216
  17. Thirsk and Malton  215
  18. Scarborough and Whitby  211
  19. Lancaster and Fleetwood  211
  20. South Norfolk 210
  21. Wells  209
  22. York Central 206
  23. Totnes  206
  24. Central Devon 205
  25. West Dorset  201
  26. Penrith and The Border 198
  27. Cambridge  197
  28. Dumfries and Galloway 195
  29. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine  193
  30. Edinburgh North and Leith 192
  31. Bridgwater and West Somerset  192
  32. Norwich South  191
  33. Richmond (Yorks)  190
  34. St. Ives 189
  35. South Cambridgeshire 186
  36. Sheffield Hallam 185
  37. Arundel and South Downs  185
  38. North Somerset  183
  39. Hove  183
  40. Brighton Kemptown  180
  41. Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk  176
  42. Exeter  176
  43. The Cotswolds  175
  44. Tiverton and Honiton  175
  45. South West Surrey  173
  46. Hastings and Rye 173
  47. Edinburgh East  173
  48. Ceredigion  172
  49. Mid Norfolk  172
  50. Forest of Dean 172
  51. Ribble Valley 172
  52. Colne Valley  171
  53. Ochil and South Perthshire 170
  54. Truro and Falmouth 169
  55. South East Cambridgeshire 169
  56. Horsham 167
  57. Lewes  166
  58. Taunton Deane 166
  59. North East Bedfordshire  165
  60. North Wiltshire 164
  61. East Devon 163
  62. East Lothian 163
  63. Oxford West and Abingdon 168
  64. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale  161
  65. Bath 161
  66. Perth and North Perthshire 161
  67. Waveney 161
  68. Salisbury 161
  69. Moray 160
  70. Somerton and Frome 160
  71. Montgomeryshire 159
  72. Ludlow 159
  73. Edinburgh South 158 
  74. Camborne and Redruth 158
  75. East Worthing and Shoreham 158
  76. Stirling 157
  77. Macclesfield 157
  78. North Dorset 157
  79. South Dorset 156
  80. East Yorkshire 155
  81. Berwick-upon-Tweed 155

 

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: Aberconwy, Amber Valley, Ashford, Aylesbury, Banbury, Basingstoke,  Beverley and Holderness, Bexhill and Battle, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Bournemouth East, Bournemouth West, Bracknell, Braintree, Brecon and Radnorshire, Brigg and Goole, Bristol North West, Broadland, Bromsgrove, Broxtowe, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Chichester, Chesham and Amersham, Chippenham, City of Chester, Christchurch, Clwyd West, Colchester, Congleton, Corby, Crewe and Nantwich, Daventry, Devizes, Dover, Eastbourne, Eastleigh, East Hampshire, East Surrey, Elmet and Rothwell, Epsom and Ewell, Fareham, Faversham and Mid Kent, Folkestone and Hythe, 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, Hitchin and Harpenden, Huntingdon, Ipswich, Keighley, Kingston and Surbiton, Lincoln, Loughborough, Louth and Horncastle, Maidenhead, Maldon, Meon Valley, Mid Bedfordshire, Mid Derbyshire, Mid Dorset and North Poole, Mid Sussex, Milton Keynes North, Milton Keynes South, Mole Valley, Monmouth, Morecambe and Lunesdale, Newark, Newbury, New Forest East, New Forest West, Newton Abbot, North Cornwall, North Devon, 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, Norwich North, Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, Poole, Portsmouth South, Preseli Pembrokeshire, Pudsey, Reading East, Reigate, Richmond Park, Rochester and Strood, Romsey and Southampton, Rossendale and Darwen, Rushcliffe, Rutland and Melton, St Albans, St Austell and Newquay, Saffron Walden, Selby and Ainsty, Sherwood, Shipley, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Sleaford and North Hykeham, South Derbyshire, South East Cornwall, South Northamptonshire, South Ribble, South Suffolk, South Swindon, South Thanet, South West Devon, South West Hertfordshire, South West Norfolk, South West Wiltshire,  Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stratford-on-Avon, Surrey Heath, Tatton, Tewkesbury, Thornbury and Yate, Tonbridge and Malling, Torbay, Twickenham, Vale of Glamorgan, Wantage, Watford, Wealden, Wellingborough, Weston-super-Mare, West Suffolk, West Worcestershire, Winchester, Witney, Woking, Worthing West, Wycombe, Wyre and Preston North, Wyre Forest, Yeovil, York Outer.

SNP: Aberdeen South, Angus, Banff and Buchan, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch, Edinburgh South West, Edinburgh West, Glasgow Central, Glasgow North, Gordon, Linlithgow and East Falkirk, Midlothian, North Ayrshire and Arran, North East Fife.

Labour: Barrow and Furness, Bassetlaw, Bishop Auckland, Blaydon, Bolsover, Bristol East, Bristol South, Bury South, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Chesterfield, Chorley, Copeland, Garston and Halewood, Gedling, Hackney North and Stoke Newington,  Halifax, Hemsworth, Holborn and St Pancras, Hornsey and Wood Green, Islington North, Leeds North East, Lewisham Deptford, Lewisham West and Penge, Liverpool Riverside, Manchester Withington, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, North East Derbyshire, North West Durham, Nottingham East, Oxford East, Penistone and Stocksbridge, Salford and Eccles, Sheffield Heeley, Southampton Test, Stalybridge and Hyde, Tynemouth, Wallasey, Walthamstow, Warrington North, West Lancashire, Wirral West,  Workington, Wythenshawe and Sale East, Ynys Mon.

Lib Dems: Leeds North West, Orkney and Shetland

Speaker: Buckingham

Plaid Cymru: Arfon,  Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

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9 Replies to “70,000 signatures”

  1. I’d like to thank the sponsors of the petition, and particularly Chris and you, for making this petition the success that I’m sure it will be.
    I think also that particular thanks go to Invercauld estate, Mossdale Estate, Glenusk Estate and the many others who have so far helped to make the petition a success. I’m sure they and their representatives are wondering who will be next to help the petition on it’s way.
    Thanks should also go to the errant policemen and members of the judiciary who seem to manage to increase the difficulty of prosecution even in clear cut cases of criminality. They make it so much easier for the public to help the petition.

  2. 70423. Less than 617 per day. The number of signatures required has been lower, but it’s also been higher. Next target must be over 80k before the start of the Birdfair.
    Bet you’ve all got at least one other person you can badger into signing.

    1. Comparing the figure I’m looking at now with what I saw this time yesterday it’s more like a 1,000 a (24 hour) day. It’s really chuntering along. The leaflets are definitely helping and I think there may be a bit of a lag between handing them out, people signing the petition and then clicking on the confirmation email in their inbox, if it hasn’t gone to the junk folder – there may be a bit of a delayed action with the leaflets. Hopefully Mark’s appearance on Countryfile on the 14th will boost the petition even further (hope the segment makes a reference to the petition). If anybody could set up a lap top so people could sign on there and then think that would make a big difference. I took my ipad to an AGM a few weeks ago and got three signatures very quickly, but then it bloody well played up, but it’s not time consuming and you just have to hope those that signed will click on the confirmation email later, but it’s one less step to worry about people doing. Feeling confident 100,000 will be reached, but with Greenpeace etc involvement would be well and truly smashed.

      1. Les – many thanks.

        I think there is a bit of a lag too. There has been a leap upwards in my own constituency a week after leafletting.

        There will be laptops at the Bird Fair – more on this later. But actually at Womad we found that people were reluctant to stop and sign on the spot – keen to talk and to take a leaflet away (or often a photo of the leaflet on their phones). Let’s hope they convert over the days ahead.

      2. sorry Les, not clear, I meant 617 per day needed of course. Heading for that already today.

  3. John Pugh Liberal Democrat Southport constituency can be added to the list of 100 club members with 113 signatures.

  4. 70523, with the average over the 650 constituencies now at just over 108.
    If this was a cricket match you would think this was going to be a big total!

  5. My signature from the US probably would not count so it is with my hopes that my moral support can contribute even more.

    I have been a bird and wildlife television cinematographer for 25 years now, during this short period of time, while being sent to numerous parts of North and South America, I have been able to witness firsthand, upon my return to some areas, grave destruction of the formerly pristine ecosystems.

    Change comes in many forms and diminutions.

    Please support this effort and get the word out in every way you can.
    Tiny things like the banning of CFC’s from spray bottles and cans are already beginning to show signs of improvement in areas like the ozone holes. Together we can make a difference!

    Timothy R. Barksdale
    Birdman Productions
    Birdheart Foundation
    Montana, USA

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