You really know that your predecessors in the job were doing a rubbish job when the top three trending subjects on the Westminster parliament website are in your area – Defra.
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It’s not the fault of Andrea Leadsom and Therese Coffey that Liz Truss and Rory Stewart did such a poor job for wildlife but it is their responsibility to do a much better one.
It won’t be difficult to do better.
Here are the links to those three e-petitions so that you can encourage them:
Ban driven grouse shooting – closes 20 September –
79600 signatures.
Give the hedgehog better legal protection in order to reverse its decline – closes Thursday – 48,000 signatures
Suspend Natural England licence to kill buzzards – closes 3 February – 6321 signatures
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80510 signatures at 21.10 today. 80k smashed!
Just protect our wildlife!
Let nothing come in the way of pure greed. Parliament is occupied by Orcs.
With the recent influx from the departing PM honours list isn’t it time for serious reform in Westminster?
650 in the Commons, with around 798 in the Lords before the latest batch so come on, can we afford this extravagance? Would we miss a third from the former and at least half from the second chamber?
If peerages and knighthoods are for sale then let’s see the receipts put into public funds to benefit the many not the few?
80622! Average Central up to 124. How many today?
Now 80727, that’s 105 in 45 minutes. This is quite something…
Sorry for being thick but what does average central mean?