Update on signatures

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118000The rate of acquisition of new signatures has dropped off quite a lot – understandably.

Note progress in Ribble Valley – up from #17 to #12 in just a week!

Here is how the constituencies with over 300 signatures stand:

  • Calder Valley 758
  • High Peak  545
  • Ross, Skye and Lochaber  499
  • Bristol West  493
  • Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey  463
  • Derbyshire Dales 462
  • Brighton, Pavilion 458
  • Sheffield Central  442
  • Skipton and Ripon 439
  • Westmorland and Lonsdale  412
  • Edinburgh North and Leith 412
  • Ribble Valley 410
  • Sheffield Hallam 408
  • Argyll and Bute  390
  • Lancaster and Fleetwood  390
  • Isle of Wight  389
  • Stroud 388
  • Thirsk and Malton  373
  • North Norfolk 368
  • Cambridge 355
  • Suffolk Coastal 355
  • Torridge and West Devon 354
  • York Central 353
  • Totnes 346
  • Central Devon 346
  • Wells 336
  • Scarborough and Whitby 335
  • Somerton and Frome 334
  • South Cambs 333
  • Edinburgh East 333
  • St Ives 331
  • Exeter 325
  • Dumfries and Galloway 325
  • Hove 325
  • Penrith and The Border 322
  • Brighton Kemptown 320
  • West Dorset 318
  • Arundel and South Downs 318
  • Bridgwater and West Somerset 315
  • Richmond (Yorks) 315
  • South Norfolk 303
  • North Wiltshire 300
  • West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 300

Thank you to all who have signed our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.

I expect to hear next week, on 6 or 7 September whether our e-petition will be debated in Westminster Hall (the likelihood is that it will be) and when that will happen (it will be a Monday on or, much more likely, after 10 October).

Later today I will up-date you on what Conservative MPs are saying in their replies to constituents and why the SNP really ought to get their act together on this subject. Laters! (as I believe young people sometimes say).

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10 Replies to “Update on signatures”

  1. Yesterday finished on: 118,947
    The day’s signatures: 132

    After a manic couple of days that including dawn and dusk bat surveys, interspersed by a Baird’s Sandpiper, a great big purple Western Swamphen in a reedbed in Lincolnshire, and a heap of other quality bird sightings, it’s time for some sleep I think. Laters too!

      1. One of the strangest combinations of congruous/incongruous i’ve had in a British bird sighting, Les! Congruous; a swamphen doing what they do, stalking along the edge of a reedbed, big pink feet wrestling with reeds and chomping down the pith, generally looking right at home, with Moorhens and waders paying it no heed. Incongruous; did I mention it was in Lincolnshire? Mind you, as a sign of the changing times, 12 Spoonbills waded past as I was watching it.

  2. Unfortunately I’ve not seen any noticeable increase in the area I’ve delivered leaflets, West Worcs and Wyre Forest – in fact Wyre Forest actually went down a few votes a couple of weeks ago, presumably a victim of the bot – but has come back up again since. However, I do have a few left which I will take to a conference this weekend.

    1. Lisa – things seem to vary! Thank you for your hard work anyway – I know what it’s like. You may well have had a bigger impact than you realise – it’s always difficult to tell without doing a properly controlled experiment! Thank you.

    2. I wonder if there might be quite a long lead time for signatures from leaflets dropped through doors. And also what effect of people returning from holidays – maybe a bit of an uptake when the schools go back in the next week or so, when people feel they are getting back to normal business? Sure your efforts won’t have been in vain.

  3. Simon King’s “End the badger cull instead of expanding to new areas” has slowed down too, but at over 30k well on target to the required 100k.

  4. 118,985 just now. Seems hard to believe that a month ago we were getting excited about getting past 70,000.

    I think the petition would need c.334 signatures per day to get to 125k by 20th, c.56 per day needed to get to 120k. At 100 signatures per day the finishing total would be c.120,785; Jim’s 135 signatures per day would add 2,376 so at that rate the finish line would be crossed on 121,361. This is assuming 18 whole days left and not counting the rest of today, and that there isn’t some flaw in my maths.

    The opposition currently have 14,394 – they’ve started briskly but it’s going to be a long run chase!

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