Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has had another good week – it passed 14,000 signatures and is now closer to 15,000. Well done!
It is not yet a third of its way through its lifetime but it’s getting close to that.
Having passed 10,000 signatures and prompted an inadequate and disappointing Defra response from Therese Coffey the next milestone is probably to pass the total of the ‘protect’ grouse shooting e-petition that did so very badly last year – amassing just 25,000 signatures at a time when my last e-petition acquired 123,077 signatures. Passing 25, 322 signatures would be my next aim – and Gavin Gamble is over half way there already in less than a third of the time. So, that’s looking eminently achievable even though it won’t happen without quite a lot of effort from quite a lot of people.
But already, 330 Westminster constituencies have more signatures on Gavin’s e-petition than on last year’s rival e-petition – that’s just over half of all UK Westminster constituencies prefer to ban driven grouse shooting than to keep it, after a third of the allotted time!
More than half of English and more than half of Welsh constituencies already prefer a ban to keeping grouse shooting. Scotland will get into that position fairly soon too. there’s a lot to do, but the supporters of unsustainable, damaging and pointless driven grouse shooting have failed to demonstrate any real public support for their hobby whereas its opponents can point to a real mandate for change.
Here are those 330 constituencies with the number of signatures to keep grouse shooting first and then the, larger, number of signatures already on Gavin’s e-petition.
That’s very encouraging.
England:
- Amber Valley 14, 35
- Ashfield 9, 29
- Ashton-under-Lyne 7, 9
- Barnsley Central 11, 18
- Barnsley East 17, 24
- Barrow and Furness 26, 31
- Basildon and Billericay 8, 23
- Bath 15, 29
- Batley and Spen 8, 20
- Bedford 7, 20
- Bethnal Green and Bow 15, 19
- Bexleyheath and Crayford 2, 13
- Birkenhead 4, 13
- Birmingham, Edgbaston 9, 14
- Birmingham, Erdington 4, 9
- Birmingham, Hall Green 5, 7
- Birmingham, Hodge Hill 2, 4
- Birmingham, Northfield 11, 13
- Birmingham, Perry Barr 3, 7
- Birmingham, Selly Oak 2, 9
- Birmingham, Yardley 1, 10
- Blackburn 10, 13
- Blackley and Broughton 4, 8
- Blackpool North and Cleveleys 5, 16
- Blackpool South 4, 15
- Blaydon 20, 26
- Blyth Valley 13, 21
- Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 13, 19
- Bolton North East 15, 28
- Bolton South East 7, 11
- Bolton West 8, 17
- Bootle 6, 16
- Bournemouth East 5, 21
- Bournemouth West 7, 13
- Bradford East 7, 9
- Bradford West 6, 9
- Brent Central 5, 6
- Brent North 1, 4
- Brighton, Kemptown 10, 27
- Brighton, Pavilion 7, 48
- Bristol East 5, 13
- Bristol North West 9, 26
- Bristol South 4, 22
- Bristol West 21, 40
- Bromley and Chislehurst 6, 12
- Bromsgrove 31, 35
- Broxbourne 8, 14
- Broxtowe 8, 25
- Burnley 9, 14
- Bury North 12, 12
- Bury South 8, 16
- Calder Valley 31, 74
- Camberwell and Peckham 10, 22
- Camborne and Redruth 21, 22
- Cambridge 17, 42
- Carshalton and Wallington 2, 15
- Charnwood 19, 26
- Chatham and Aylesford 9, 16
- Cheadle 12, 22
- Chelmsford 11, 29
- Cheltenham 29, 30
- Chesterfield 17, 19
- Chingford and Woodford Green 4, 14
- Chipping Barnet 10, 12
- Christchurch 14, 19
- Clacton 10, 18
- Colchester 12, 31
- Coventry South 7, 10
- Crawley 6, 16
- Crewe and Nantwich 18, 30
- Croydon Central 1, 14
- Croydon North 4, 9
- Croydon South 5, 16
- Dagenham and Rainham 2, 13
- Darlington 18, 24
- Dartford 8, 17
- Denton and Reddish 3, 11
- Derby North 6, 16
- Derby South 5, 11
- Doncaster Central 5, 13
- Dover 5, 24
- Dudley North 5, 6
- Dudley South 8, 12
- Dulwich and West Norwood 15, 17
- Ealing North 6, 10
- Ealing, Southall 1, 2
- East Devon 25, 33
- East Ham 2, 9
- East Worthing and Shoreham 8, 31
- Eastleigh 17, 26
- Edmonton 1, 3
- Eltham 3, 12
- Enfield North 1, 10
- Enfield, Southgate 5, 7
- Epping Forest 5, 16
- Epsom and Ewell 13, 15
- Erewash 9, 19
- Erith and Thamesmead 3, 11
- Exeter 20, 33
- Fareham 12, 22
- Feltham and Heston 3, 10
- Filton and Bradley Stoke 10, 22
- Finchley and Golders Green 4, 9
- Garston and Halewood 5, 22
- Gateshead Ian Mearns 4, 6
- Gedling 10, 29
- Gillingham and Rainham 14, 16
- Gloucester 16, 21
- Gosport 8, 16
- Gravesham 9, 14
- Great Yarmouth 13, 21
- Greenwich and Woolwich 5, 13
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington 7, 21
- Halesowen and Rowley 9, 13
- Halifax 20, 26
- Harlow 4, 16
- Harrow East 1, 7
- Hartlepool 8, 10
- Hastings and Rye 24, 30
- Hazel Grove 14, 15
- Hemsworth 22, 22
- Hendon 2, 10
- Hertford and Stortford 20, 22
- Heywood and Middleton 8, 18
- Hitchin and Harpenden 3, 30
- Holborn and St Pancras 29, 29
- Hornchurch and Upminster 6, 18
- Hornsey and Wood Green 21, 30
- Hove 9, 29
- Huddersfield 8, 22
- Hyndburn 17, 17
- Ilford North 3, 7
- Ilford South 0, 7
- Ipswich 9, 43
- Isle of Wight 45, 72
- Jarrow 12, 16
- Kingston and Surbiton 11, 18
- Kingston upon Hull East 6, 11
- Kingston upon Hull North 10, 14
- Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle 7, 10
- Kingswood 9, 10
- Knowsley 7, 8
- Leeds Central 6, 9
- Leeds East 6, 14
- Leeds North East 11, 36
- Leeds West 8, 14
- Leicester East 2, 3
- Leicester South 2, 21
- Leicester West 5, 15
- Leigh 9, 25
- Lewisham East 3, 12
- Lewisham West and Penge 3, 16
- Lewisham, Deptford 7, 20
- Leyton and Wanstead 4, 12
- Lincoln 14, 30
- Liverpool, Riverside 5, 21
- Liverpool, Walton 4, 11
- Liverpool, Wavertree 3, 13
- Liverpool, West Derby 1, 9
- Loughborough 16, 20
- Luton North 2, 16
- Luton South 7, 14
- Maidenhead 20, 21
- Makerfield 13, 19
- Manchester Central 7, 12
- Manchester, Gorton 2, 11
- Manchester, Withington 6, 27
- Mansfield 18, 21
- Mid Derbyshire 19, 21
- Mid Dorset and North Poole 23, 29
- Middlesbrough 4, 6
- Milton Keynes North 34, 35
- Milton Keynes South 13, 32
- Mitcham and Morden 2, 11
- Newcastle upon Tyne East 13, 26
- Newton Abbot 25, 32
- Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford 18, 18
- North Norfolk 49, 54
- North Somerset 34, 35
- North Thanet 10, 19
- North Tyneside 13, 27
- Northampton North 7, 16
- Northampton South 10, 12
- Norwich North 2, 26
- Norwich South 6, 47
- Nottingham East 2, 23
- Nottingham North 2, 17
- Nottingham South 4, 16
- Nuneaton 10, 16
- Old Bexley and Sidcup 3, 13
- Oldham East and Saddleworth 12,12
- Oldham West and Royton 1, 13
- Orpington 7, 18
- Oxford East 8, 21
- Oxford West and Abingdon 24, 29
- Peterborough 9, 13
- Plymouth, Moor View 6, 9
- Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport 6, 34
- Poole 13, 25
- Portsmouth North 4, 15
- Portsmouth South 1, 19
- Preston 7, 17
- Pudsey 24, 26
- Reading East 5, 27
- Reading West 8, 16
- Reigate 24, 24
- Rochdale 5, 12
- Rochester and Strood 17, 22
- Rochford and Southend East 13, 15
- Romford 3, 9
- Rotherham 9, 19
- Rugby 18, 21
- Salford and Eccles 0, 16
- Sefton Central 13, 21
- Sheffield Central 13, 65
- Sheffield South East 9, 17
- Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough 5, 27
- Sheffield, Hallam 57, 74
- Sheffield, Heeley 3, 36
- Slough 4, 4
- Solihull 7, 8
- South Basildon and East Thurrock 9, 16
- South Leicestershire 30, 30
- South Shields 11, 14
- South Staffordshire 21, 26
- South Thanet 19, 23
- South West Bedfordshire 19, 21
- Southampton, Itchen 11, 19
- Southampton, Test 4, 13
- Southend West 9, 21
- Southport 13, 22
- Spelthorne 9, 13
- St Helens North 7, 21
- St Helens South and Whiston 7, 17
- St Ives 36, 39
- Stafford 26, 27
- Stalybridge and Hyde 17, 20
- Stevenage 10, 12
- Stockport 1, 21
- Stoke-on-Trent Central 4, 9
- Stoke-on-Trent North 5, 9
- Stoke-on-Trent South 8, 16
- Stourbridge 8, 12
- Stretford and Urmston 1, 18
- Sunderland Central 11, 21
- Sutton and Cheam 5, 8
- Sutton Coldfield 8, 14
- Telford 12, 12
- Thurrock 6, 13
- Torbay 6, 15
- Totnes 30, 33
- Tottenham 2, 14
- Truro and Falmouth 27, 30
- Twickenham 11, 34
- Tynemouth 9, 29
- Uxbridge and South Ruislip 5, 8
- Wallasey 4, 27
- Walsall North 5, 8
- Walsall South 5, 13
- Walthamstow 9, 16
- Warley 2, 13
- Warrington North 10, 15
- Washington and Sunderland West 8, 8
- Watford 5, 19
- Waveney 23, 36
- Wellingborough 11, 33
- Wells 41, 54
- Welwyn Hatfield 17, 23
- West Bromwich East 4, 9
- West Bromwich West 2, 11
- West Ham 2, 7
- Weston-super-Mare 22, 27
- Wirral South 8, 17
- Wirral West 7, 20
- Woking 20, 24
- Wolverhampton North East 4, 12
- Wolverhampton South East 4, 7
- Wolverhampton South West 2, 11
- Worcester 19, 24
- Workington 26, 30
- Worsley and Eccles South 3, 17
- Worthing West 5, 24
- Wyre Forest 20, 29
- Wythenshawe and Sale East 6, 18
- York Central 18, 48
Northern Ireland:
- Belfast North 4, 11
Scotland:
- Aberdeen North 14, 18
- Central Ayrshire 15, 18
- Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill 8, 9
- Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East 10, 15
- East Dunbartonshire 6, 18
- East Renfrewshire 11, 13
- Edinburgh South 33, 45
- Edinburgh South West 10, 34
- Glasgow Central 12, 23
- Glasgow East 3, 11
- Glasgow North 12, 35
- Glasgow North East 1, 7
- Glasgow North West 2, 17
- Glasgow South Stewart 4, 21
- Glasgow South West 1, 10
- Inverclyde 8, 13
- North Ayrshire and Arran 18, 21
- Orkney and Shetland 20, 34
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South 13, 23
- Rutherglen and Hamilton West 4, 12
Wales:
- Aberavon 4, 5
- Aberconwy 18, 23
- Alyn and Deeside 18, 18
- Arfon 9, 19
- Bridgend 4, 9
- Cardiff Central 7, 18
- Cardiff North 7, 29
- Cardiff South and Penarth 11, 12
- Cardiff West 3, 17
- Ceredigion 29, 53
- Cynon Valley 9, 9
- Gower 15, 22
- Islwyn 5, 14
- Llanelli 10, 11
- Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 1, 5
- Newport East 8, 14
- Newport West 9, 13
- Ogmore 8, 12
- Pontypridd 7, 13
- Preseli Pembrokeshire 21, 44
- Rhondda 4, 5
- Swansea West 8, 12
- Torfaen 6, 14
- Wrexham 4, 11
[registration_form]