100,000!!

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100,000

We did it – 100,000 of us (so far).

Thank you!

I hope someone has a screen grab I can add here later (above – although it went past in a blur and I’ve been sent several slightly photoshopped ones like the above – thank you) but now I’m off to get a train home from London and to smile, and relax for a while.

But not for very long…

 

 

PS Ralph’s Saturday cartoon to follow soon!

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48 Replies to “100,000!!”

  2. Well done Mark and to all that have campaigned.

    Screen grab at 99,999 and 100,004.

    Next stop 150k!

  5. Everyone who has contributed to this momentous petition should be congratulated, especially members of the public who are now well and truly on board. Everyone one of you thank you for a job well done.

    I wish to convey my sincere thanks to Mark Avery and Chris Packham, without who’s lead this historic moment may never have been attained.

  8. Fantastic news Mark. A deserved result for all the hard work you’ve put in to the campaign.

  10. Congratulations Mark…. you were the catalyst. Have a bottle of Hen Harrier on me!

    Now we need to talk tactics. No doubt Botham and his back room staff have now been sacked (no more free butt time for him), and the shadowy people will be appointing a new team to lead the fight back. We need to start lining up the ducks and be ready for the campaign.

  12. Now we turn our focus on our MPs. Some have talked about generously giving their MP a copy of inglorious. I was wondering how to maximise it and though if Inglorious was given with a letter making the case for a ban with the Inglorious page numbers that relates to each point for them to be able to refer to for more detail easily.

    Another thought was that Ban supporters in the same constituency could co sign the accompanying letter with the Inglorious book. The LACS might be able to help do this. Or would lots of emails and letters from individuals be better?

    1. We will have a supporter action no doubt. This will enable everyone to contact their MPs in the lead up to the debate. But first we have to secure the debate! Once we have a date we will launch the action. But in the meantime please do contact your MP and highlight the petition reaching the 100K.

    2. I think giving MPs the book with accompanying notes on main points and page numbers is an excellent idea; they are very busy people and are unlikely to read much of the book unless they are already keen conservationists themselves.

    3. I am no Tory, but not all Tories are in bed with the huntin’ and shootin’ brigade. Has anybody made contact with the decent folk who run the Conservatives Against Fox Hunting FB page ? They are natural allies and to make further progress we need them and their supporters onside.

      But – before anything else, well done Mark. Well done, too to Chris Packham for having a thick enough skin to ignore the slurs hurled against you. We’re on our way !!!!

  14. Mark,

    I am one of the 100,000 who wish for the skies to be filled with all kinds of birds, and want the illegal persecution of raptors to stop.

    Thanks to you and Chris for being leading lights and helping our voices to be heard.
    There many that have supported your work and all deserve thanks for their part too.
    Perseverance rewarded.

  18. A wonderful achievement, thanks to your faith and perseverance, Mark, and the brilliant support of Chris Packham, in particular, and the organisations that came on board. Lessons could be learnt by some of the larger NGOs.

  19. This is the best news ever. Mark has been the engine pushing this campaign with all the force of The Cannonball Express (who remembers Casey Jones?). Feel very proud Mark. Many other people and organisations also pushed as a rugby scrum. This would not have happened without that constant bombardment. I raise a glass (not Famous Grouse) to every one if you.

    1. And you need a bloody big rugby scrum to push Mark 🙂 Great leader (always has been) with great followers. I like the idea of posting Inglorious to all MPs so they have all the facts in front of them when entering any debate. And knowing that everyone in the room will have seen the same facts. PS You don’t have to approve all of this if you don’t want to Mark 😉

  20. You’re too immodest to say so, Mark, but, without wishing to minimise the heroic efforts of others (particularly RPUK and Chris Packham), I think it is fair to say YOU did it. Without your knowledge, persistence, organisational skills, hard work, blogging and forceful polemic “Inglorious” there would be no campaign and no 100,000 signatures. Well done. Now go and open that bottle of fizz!

  21. An absolutely brilliant result! Well done Mark, you’ve led a great campaign! Its far from over but this is a great opportunity to get the debate to a wider audience.

  24. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
    Have a great celebration, Mark, and a (short) rest. You’ve earned it. But then the really serious work has to start…

    1. I did think that myself ! 🙂 For the uninitiated, it was Churchill’s finish to his speech in the House of Commons in 1942 announcing the great victory at El Alamein.

      1. Thanks, Ian!
        Embarrassingly, I’ve just been over to RPUK and found that John Cantelo had posted exactly the same quote, before I posted it here. Apologies, John – I honestly hadn’t seen it.
        It’s the story of my life – always off the pace…

  25. Must add my congratulations to you Mark for all the hard work you have put in on this. It was also reading your book that clarified for me the situation with our upland desert grouse moors. To paraphrase words of John Paul Jones “It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”

  26. Amazing achievement. Has been a pleasure to work on the campaign.

    Yesterday the Guardians Environment Editor John Vidal wrote, “Not since foxhunting with dogs was threatened with legislation in the 1990s has a country sport (driven grouse shooting) felt so besieged”.

    There is no doubt that driven grouse shooting days are numbered. Time for change in the uplands!

  28. I’ve a suggestion. Keep going for half a million signatures?

    Because with that sort of total, it’ll be even harder for ignorant twonks like Botham, to claim that opposition to corporate canned slaughter is the product of a few “extremists”.

    In addition, what’s the current status of the push for prosecutions, with respect to those desparecidoe’d eagles? (Any parallels I draw between the corporate slaughter brigade’s activities and the South American “Dirty War” are, of course, entirely intentional).

  29. 100,000 people have signed this petition, and by the end of its time, it will be even more.

    Hundreds of people have been involved in the wider work surrounding this campaign.

    One person began this whole thing, with one step, or perhaps these days the first action is more often one click. It’s all any of us have to do… take that one step.

    It’s time for that famous Goethe quotation:
    “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

    Thank you, Mark, for that commitment.

  30. Brilliant result!! Mark, Chris and everyone else who has been involved in this fantastic campaign for the last three years, well done and a massive Thank You from me and Sue. You are assured of our continual support for however long it takes.

  31. I would like to thank Bill Oddie whose name also appears on the petition. Bill has been a great supporter of the cause and the mere presence of his name has, I’m sure, added a few thousand signatures.
    Thanks Bill.

    1. Very true. In a previous post, I thanked certain organisations and individuals, however I automatically lumped Bill in as an associate of LACS.

      As Bill is named as an individual on the petition, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Bill for his support of this petition. Well done, Bill.

  33. Fantastic effort Mark, many many congratulations to you especially but also to Chris Packham and all the other key helpers. Just shows that there is a lot of support out there if one can tap into it in the right way. The next battle will be presumably be with the politicians.

  34. Yabadabadoo. Thank you Mark, you are truly inspirational and indefatigable. Thank you Chris, what a cool courageous campaigner you are. Thank you RPUK for your endless, meticulous, scrupulous reports and revelations. Thank you to all the other organisations & organisers involved. Thank you to the great British public who have seen through the racketeers of the driven grouse shooting clique to supported the campaign.

  35. Many many congratulations Mark and Chris and all involved. At 102,745 and motoring along in the upper two hundreds per hour as I write. Average Central on … who cares?!

    What a week – more than a quarter of the signatures added in the last seven days. Feels like a perfectly judged innings in a test match like Younis Khan at the Oval today – started with steady accumulation, then scoring freely now smashing them all over the park!

    Lots of thoughts to come no doubt on what this means, what next, how the shooters will try to fight back and how to push on to an even larger total by 20 September (still another four weeks left!). But that’s for another day. Congratulations once again

  36. A big Thank You, Mark, to you, Chris and others who have been in the firing-line of abuse throughout this, and will, no doubt, have to contend with more still.

  37. Can only add my congratulations and also endless admiration for Chis for having the cajones. Also many thanks to Bill.

  40. WOW WOW WOW All that Fantastic Campaigning is now paying off,Thanks Mark,Chris and everybody else ,this is a Massive Turning Point. Very Well Done .

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