We 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.
- Calder Valley 461
- High Peak 318
- Skipton and Ripon 290
- Ross, Skye and Lochaber 274
- Bristol West 263
- Isle of Wight 262
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 260
- Derbyshire Dales 255
- Westmorland and Lonsdale 246
- Brighton, Pavilion 241
- North Norfolk 233
- Argyll and Bute 231
- Torridge and West Devon 226
- Sheffield Central 222
- Suffolk Coastal 220
- Stroud 216
- Thirsk and Malton 215
- Scarborough and Whitby 211
- Lancaster and Fleetwood 211
- South Norfolk 210
- Wells 209
- York Central 206
- Totnes 206
- Central Devon 205
- West Dorset 201
- Penrith and The Border 198
- Cambridge 197
- Dumfries and Galloway 195
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 193
- Edinburgh North and Leith 192
- Bridgwater and West Somerset 192
- Norwich South 191
- Richmond (Yorks) 190
- St. Ives 189
- South Cambridgeshire 186
- Sheffield Hallam 185
- Arundel and South Downs 185
- North Somerset 183
- Hove 183
- Brighton Kemptown 180
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 176
- Exeter 176
- The Cotswolds 175
- Tiverton and Honiton 175
- South West Surrey 173
- Hastings and Rye 173
- Edinburgh East 173
- Ceredigion 172
- Mid Norfolk 172
- Forest of Dean 172
- Ribble Valley 172
- Colne Valley 171
- Ochil and South Perthshire 170
- Truro and Falmouth 169
- South East Cambridgeshire 169
- Horsham 167
- Lewes 166
- Taunton Deane 166
- North East Bedfordshire 165
- North Wiltshire 164
- East Devon 163
- East Lothian 163
- Oxford West and Abingdon 168
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 161
- Bath 161
- Perth and North Perthshire 161
- Waveney 161
- Salisbury 161
- Moray 160
- Somerton and Frome 160
- Montgomeryshire 159
- Ludlow 159
- Edinburgh South 158
- Camborne and Redruth 158
- East Worthing and Shoreham 158
- Stirling 157
- Macclesfield 157
- North Dorset 157
- South Dorset 156
- East Yorkshire 155
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sorry Les, not clear, I meant 617 per day needed of course. Heading for that already today.
John Pugh Liberal Democrat Southport constituency can be added to the list of 100 club members with 113 signatures.
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!
Delighted that ‘my’ constituency of High Peak has produced over 300 signings and moved into second place.
An article in the Huddersfield Examiner (http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/calder-valley-campaigners-leading-nationwide-11698076) about the Calder valley leading the way in the call for a ban also has a link to the petition and quotes from Mark and Bill Oddie, which will hopefully generate more votes.
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