I’ll be in Sheffield tomorrow and Saturday at the conference where I expect to have a lovely time amongst GWCT, Moorland Association, BASC and Scottish Land and Estates staff.
In case they’ve missed it, here is how the constituencies with over 300 signatures stand:
- Calder Valley 828
- High Peak 549
- Bristol West 503
- Ross, Skye and Lochaber 502
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 468
- Derbyshire Dales 468
- Brighton, Pavilion 466
- Ribble Valley 448
- Skipton and Ripon 446
- Sheffield Central 445
- Sheffield Hallam 419
- Westmorland and Lonsdale 418
- Edinburgh North and Leith 415
- Argyll and Bute 396
- Lancaster and Fleetwood 396
- Stroud 393
- Isle of Wight 391
- Thirsk and Malton 376
- North Norfolk 372
- Cambridge 363
- Suffolk Coastal 361
- Torridge and West Devon 357
- York Central 354
- Central Devon 350
- Totnes 348
- Wells 341
- Scarborough and Whitby 339
- South Cambs 338
- Somerton and Frome 337
- Edinburgh East 336
- St Ives 335
- Exeter 327
- Dumfries and Galloway 325
- Hove 328
- Penrith and The Border 327
- Brighton Kemptown 320
- West Dorset 328
- Arundel and South Downs 320
- Bridgwater and West Somerset 318
- Richmond (Yorks) 319
- South Norfolk 310
- Ceredigion 305
- Ochil and South Perthshire 305
- North Wiltshire 303
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 303
- Lewes 301
Flood-struck Calder Valley still leads the list, sitting as it does below Walshaw Moor.
Ribble Valley moves up to number 8 in the list but is only a smidgeon ahead of Skipton and Ripon and Sheffield Central – though the Ribble Valley certainly has momentum, and I believe in momentum. But there’s no way that Ribble Valley could overtake Brighton Pavilion – or could it? And if it could then Derbyshire Dales and Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey are vulnerable too.
Thank you to all who have signed our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
Which conference please ?
For ecological, economic and social implications stop the shoot
One of main items on the BBC news today was government waffle about spending millions on flood defences for public infrastructure. Not a word about the causes of flooding or any spending on improving headwaters ecology..such as removing managed grouse moors…..
Do we know anyone at the National Audit Office? They have reported on strategic flood risk management a couple of times but the most recent report (2014) seemed to move backwards in comprehension even from the rather marginal stuff about catchment management in 2011. It might be asking too much but if they could do a proper study of return on investment and prime the PAC we could quite quickly be in a new place.
Yes the various natural flood prevention schemes that got highlighted on the telly earlier this year after the bad floods seem to have become invisible again. How convenient for those who want to keep the status quo in the uplands.
The day finished on: 120,801
Today’s signatures: 344
Saturday 3rd September finished on:119,288 (+211 signatures)
Sunday 4th September finished on: 119,455 (+227 signatures)
Monday 5th September finished on: 119,608 (+153 signatures)
Tuesday 6th September finished on: 119,950 (+342 signatures)
Wednesday 7th September finished on: 120,457 (+507 signatures)
The week’s signatures so far: 1784 (daily average 297.4)
Last week’s total: 985 (daily average 140.7)
The constituency average is currently: 185.8
12 days to go.
I hope all goes well in Sheffield, Mark, unfortunately I can’t make it myself.
I wrote to my MP, the right execrable James Gray, asking him to respond to and clarify all of the erroneous “facts” in the government / Tory Party response to the petition.
He sent me a load of waffle about the DEFRA Hen Harrier Inaction Plan and a propaganda sheet from the Countryside Alliance, making the case for the destruction of moorland and peat bogs, sorry, I meant “Managing the habitat”.
I have sent him a query regarding child sexual abuse in the south of England. I look forward to the strategy document penned by Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall and Max Clifford
120,939 and rising…